A sheriff told a violent teen to get his parents to drive him to jail - so he could have a look at where he was heading if he continued a life of crime.
The 17-year-old, who can't be named for legal reasons, spat and lashed out at an officer with a bottle as police were trying to arrest him after an early-hours driving incident in Slamannan, Stirlingshire.
He was arrested after police deployed batons, a police dog, and incapacitant spray in the drama on October 25th (2020).
Officers were called to the village after a Fiat Punto driven by the youth crashed into a parked car and a fence.
The parked car's owner's daughter found him "stumbling" along a path half a mile away clutching a bottle of spirits.
He told her while she recorded him on her mobile phone: "I'll be getting done for Grand Theft Auto."
Police found him a short while later, still with the bottle of spirits in his hand.
He told the officers, "Yous are getting it."
Prosecutor India MacLean told Falkirk Sheriff Court on Thursday [March 25th]: "He was shouting and swearing at officers while throwing out his hands in an effort to goad them into a fight."
He was cuffed and placed in straps after swinging the bottle at an officer's head and continuing to hit out wildly, shouting, "p**f, fairy".
He repeatedly spat in the rear of a police van - requiring it to be professionally cleaned - and told cops, "You'll be getting f**ig done in, I will f**ing rape your wife and child.
"Your mother will disappear."
He then spat in the face of another officer, and, at Falkirk Police Station, kicked a custody guard on the leg.
The youth, a first offender, pleaded guilty to police assault, failing to report an accident, threatening and abusive behaviour, and refusing to give a urine sample to officers for analysis when they had reasonable grounds to suspect he had been driving the car that crashed.
Sheriff Derek Hamilton disqualified him from driving on the motoring charges, and deferred sentence for good behaviour six months on the charges of police assault and threatening and abusive behaviour.
He told him: "Swinging bottles at police officers and spitting on them in my view is almost an automatic custodial sentence.
"If I don't like what I see when you come back to court in six months you're going to jail, because perhaps you ought to be going to jail today."
On being told that the youth's parents were picking him up from court, he added: "I suggest you ask them to take the long road home and go past Polmont [Young Offenders' Institution]. Get them to stop the car outside and have a look because that's where you're going if you fall foul of the law again in the next six months. It's as stark as that."
