Garden Ornament | Garden Ornament Rage After Booze Session
Aug 17 2011 by Stephen Robertson, Stirling Observer Wednesday
A MAN who took the huff after being refused beer money responded by chucking garden ornaments through his mum’s living room window.
Stirling Sheriff Court heard last Wednesday how Kevin Mackie (27) had been on an eight-hour boozing session but later turned up at his mum’s home in Mossgiel Avenue, Cowie, at around 9.30pm to ask for more cash to go back to the pub.
His drunken pleas were refused by those at the house, however, and this triggered his furious reaction, the court heard.
Fiscal depute Sonia Kalkat said: “The accused went upstairs and began demanding money.
“They refused at which point he got angry and went downstairs. The witnesses thereafter heard the sound of smashing glass.
“They saw the accused was standing in the front garden and he was throwing garden ornaments through the living room window.”
Police were called and on arrival found Mackie to be “heavily intoxicated”.
Mackie appeared to have calmed down by this time but flared up again as police were speaking to his mum in the living room.
Ms Kalkat said: “He picked up a large, moulded garden ornament and, before police could stop him, threw this through the already broken window.”
On being taken to the police station, Mackie claimed “there was
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