A man spotted in the street waving a hammer was “in a trance” when police caught up with him, Cardiff Crown Court heard.
They found Aaron Lidden, 23, hiding in a back bedroom at his home in Heol Castell,Bridgend .
He had barricaded himself in, breaking up furniture and using a television set to hold the door closed.
Prosecutor Ruth Smith said: “Police dogs were brought to the scene and when he struggled he was bitten.
“Police who spoke to him said he seemed to be in a trance.
“He said he’d drunk eight cans of lager and two bottles of Lambrini but that ‘wasn’t a lot for him’.”
Lidden also claimed the claw hammer he had been seen swinging over his head in Bryn Terrace, Bridgend, on the evening of December 4 was being used to hang pictures.
“He said he had been on his way to pick up nails and photographs from his mother and added ‘I wouldn’t have hurt anyone with it’,” added Ms Smith.
In the past he has been convicted of 33 various offences, including having a metal bar as a weapon, and as a juvenile was warned for possessing a blade on school premises.
Just 24 hours before being at large with the hammer he had been given a community order by a court for damaging a car with a garden rake.
Jailing him for nine months, Judge Jonathan Furness QC said: “You were drunk or drugged and not in control of your actions when you were waving the hammer around.”
He pleaded guilty to being in possession of a weapon in a public place and admitted being in breach of previous court orders.
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