A woman threatened to kill bouncers at an Aberdeen nightspot after her antics with a bar stool got her thrown out.
Stacey Reid was initially pulled up for dancing on a stool at Jam Jar on Langstane Place, but then also repeatedly picked the stool up.
After a number of warnings, security staff tried to escort the 30-year-old and her friend out of the bar.
But Reid stubbornly sat down on the ground and refused to move, struggling with the bouncers, threatening to kill them and slapping one of them in the process.
Fiscal depute Jennifer Pritchard told Aberdeen Sheriff Court Reid and her friend had been socialising in Jam Jar on September 21 2019 when, at around 10.45pm, door staff saw her “dancing on a bar stool”.
Ms Prtichard said: “The member of door staff requested she desist, which she did.
Slapped bouncer had not been involved in incident
“He thereafter saw her pick up the bar stool and advised her if she did that again she’d be asked to leave.”
Reid again picked up the stool “almost immediately” and the bouncer and a colleague began to escort her and her friend out.
She initially complied but, before she got outside, she “sat down on the ground and refused to move”.
When the bouncers tried to pick her up she started “flailing” her arms around in the air.
She had to be restrained on the ground and started kicking her legs and shouting and swearing.
Reid told them that, if they let go of her, she’d walk out calmly, but when they did she immediately started swinging her arms again.
She continued to struggle, shout and swear and make threats to kill them.
Unpaid work
When they eventually got her outside, Reid approached another member of door staff, who had not been involved in the incident up until this point, and slapped him in the face.
She was again restrained and, when police arrived, arrested.
Reid, of Annan Terrace, Dundee, pled guilty to charges of breach of the peace and assault.
Defence agent Jenny Logan said her client, a single mum with a young son, had been on a night out with friends when the incident happened.
She explained Reid had been struggling with her newborn child at the time and has since limited her drinking.
Ms Logan said Reid also felt the security staff were being heavy-handed.
Sheriff Ian Wallace handed Reid 60 hours of unpaid work and a year’s supervision.
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