A drunk man has been jailed after he hurled abuse at paramedics who were tending to him and found him with a steak knife in his waistband.
Scott Brooke, 32, was spotted on CCTV sitting on a wall outside a house in Stalybridge before he drunkenly fell off and was knocked unconscious.
As passing members of the public came to his aid, one who was looking for identification found a steak knife with a four-inch serrated blade hidden in his waistband.
An ambulance swiftly arrived, but Brooke proceeded to hurl abuse at the paramedics before being taken to Tameside hospital, Manchester Magistrates Court heard.
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