A MAN armed with a knife lay down in a main road and invited a lorry driver to run over him.
Polish national Andrzej Skaluba (37) also ran at a car and a motorcyclist brandishing the eight inch kitchen knife in stabbing motion, Mold Crown Court heard.
A judge said it was “a very peculiar case” in which immigrant worker Skaluba was crying out for help with his alcohol problem.
Sandra Subacchi, prosecuting, said Skaluba, who was sharing a property in Chester Street, Flint, with another Polish man, climbed out of his bedroom window about 6am on April 22, and knocked on a neighbour’s bedroom window.
The other Polish man described Skaluba as acting very strange.
He cut a TV satellite cable to the property, went inside and re-emerged with an eight inch kitchen knife and said he was looking for his wife – who had already left the country.
Skaluba went into Flint’s main street and stood outside a kebab house, stopping the traffic because of his presence in the road, said Ms Subacchi.
“Then he lay down on the road by an HGV and beckoned the driver to run over him.
“A blue car approached and tried to drive around him but he got up and held the knife in a stabbing position as though he were going to stop the Peugeot,” she said.
The driver lifted his hands from the wheel to show he was not going to do anything when the defendant ran towards a motorcyclist, again with the knife pointing upwards.
Police officers arrived and Skaluba refused to put down the knife and again made stabbing gestures.
As officers prepared to use a taser gun on him, Skaluba ran off but was soon caught.
Judge Philip Hughes said he was concerned that a psychiatric report which said Skaluba needed help with his drinking problem had been prepared after completion of a probation report which said Skaluba did not meet the strict criteria for an alcohol treatment programme.
“This is a man who requires help with his drinking. He has never been in trouble before. He has drunk himself silly and he needs to be helped,” said the judge.
Skaluba was remanded in custody pending sentence on Thursday.
The judge said he would be giving him a community sentence and hoped the probation service could re-examine the case to see whether he qualified for alcohol treatment.