Boozing football fan Gary Flett has a habit of doing pretty crazy things when drunk, and his tormented mother has given up trying to handle him by herself.
So when 19-year-old Gary starts getting a little rowdy, she has taken to calling the police in.
The first time, it was for smashing up the family television. But more recently, when a hopelessly soused Gary decided to go for a spin on his pal's superbike without any form of motorcycle insurance, Mrs Flett's 999 call lead to a high-speed car chase, a driving ban and a youth custody sentence for her son.
Gary had spent the evening drinking and watching football on the new television when his mother overheard him planning to take the bike, which belonged to a friend, for a quick spin.
After her pleas to the contrary fell on deaf ears, Mrs Flett threatened to shop Gary if he went for the ride. When this still wasn't enough to make him reconsider, she dialled the police and reported him, fending off drunken attempts to snatch the receiver from her hand and pull the phone line from the socket as she did so.
Too drunk to see the police were already onto him, Gary quit his family home, in Workington, Cumbria, and clambered onto the bike. With no bike licence or motor insurance to his name, and nearly three times over the drink-drive limit, he gamely set off up the road at 50mph.
Officers caught up to him in a Workington housing estate ten minutes later, still haring along at 50 and struggling to stay upright. They gave chase and arrested Gary.
In court, he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop for police and riding with no valid licence or young driver car insurance, for which offences he received a three-year driving ban and 10 months' detention.
It's not know whether Mrs Flett was relieved or disappointed to hear Gary could be back in front of her television in just half that time, however.