A man has been jailed after storming into a council housing office with a bag full of knives, threatening to kill staff and showing them pictures of haemorrhoids.
Thomas Barczynski went into the Dundee East Housing Office on Pitkerro Road, where he proceeded to lose the plot with council staff working there. He started threatening to kill staff before pulling out his mobile phone as staff called police.
Bizarrely, he then showed workers images of the Illuminati – the name given to secret groups alleged to conspire to control world affairs – and haemorrhoids to workers.
Police then arrived and took him into custody, with Barczynski continuing to make threats at police headquarters on Bell Street.
When his bag was searched officers found four “knives or bladed instruments” – as well as an ASP baton, a telescopic “tactical” baton manufactured in America.
Barczynski, 45, a prisoner at Perth, pled guilty on indictment to a charge of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner and a second of possessing an offensive weapon.
Sheriff Alastair Brown jailed Barczynski for 23 weeks when he appeared for sentencing.
He said: “What you did was absolutely unacceptable.
“Threatening to stab and kill people, even if you do it because you are desperate about your own circumstances, causes stress and distress and it will not be accepted by this court.
“The explanation for you having the weapons is only partly satisfactory.
“Even if you had a legitimate reason for having knives in general I can see no excuse of any sort for the baton.”
