A knifeman attacked a refuse lorry crew after they had threatened to pick up his disabled mother's scooter and throw her into the back of their truck.
A court heard there was 'bad blood' between the binmen and D'Von MacCray after he had earlier photographed the driver of the refuse lorry using his mobile phone in the cab.
That confrontation had led to the police being called and led to a falling out between the crew and MacCray who lived in Plymouth, Devon.
But one day in May in the service lane behind his home in Wilton Street, Plymouth, MacCray heard the crew make the threat to his mother as she used her mobility scooter in the narrow lane.
Defence barrister Ali Rafati said MacCray, 35, heard them threaten to 'pick up her scooter and throw her into the back of the truck'.
He said this was the 'straw that broke the camel's back' for MacCray who armed himself with a carving knife and threatened the driver and lashed out at the locked vehicle.
He was agitated and waving the knife around, Plymouth Crown Court heard, before two women disarmed him.
Armed police were sent to the scene to arrest MacCary who had tried to get into the lorry, slashed at its tyres and banged on the windows.
MacCray admitted affray, criminal damage and having a bladed article and was jailed for eight months, suspended for two years. He was also given a one year supervision order.
The court heard he has now moved to Cornwall. The court had previously banned him from going out into his street when the dustmen were on their rounds.
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