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A serial time-waster has been banned from falling over anywhere in England and Wales, in one of the most bizarre ASBOs ever handed down by magistrates.

Attention-seeking Andrew Davies was given the anti-social behaviour order after he took to lying in the road and feigning injuries - all to dupe passing motorists into calling him an ambulance.

The 51-year-old drunk faces being hauled back before the courts if he is caught lying on the ground anywhere in England or Wales to attract attention.

A court heard how the notorious trouble-maker began by pestering emergency services with prank calls.

He later went to increasingly bizarre lengths to get his kicks as neighbours and ambulance crews became familiar with his antics and tried to ignore him.

After being persuaded by police to give up his mobile phone, Davies decided to attract attention instead by wandering the streets near his home in Princes Risborough, Bucks., then pretending to fall over and be injured in front of passers-by.

When his increasingly fed-up neighbours eventually ignored his amateur dramatics, he took to busy main roads nearby and would lie on the ground, pretending he had been hit by a car, until someone stopped to assist him.

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Davies was handed the two-year ASBO order, which also prohibits him from being drunk in a public place and calling the emergency services unless in a genuine emergency, by magistrates in High Wycombe, Bucks.

PC Chris Allman, from Thames Valley Police , said: "Davies came to police attention initially by making time-wasting calls to the emergency services. On most occasions he would be intoxicated.

"When dealt with by a police and council joint team he gave away his telephone to stop the temptation. However he then took to pretending to fall in the street near his home as a way of attracting attention to himself.

"He would lay there feigning an injury until an ambulance attended."

Local residents came to know what he was doing and started to ignore him and regard him as a nuisance.

Davies then would orchestrate his falls on a nearby main road whereby he would be seen by a larger number of people.

"Numerous motorists have done the decent thing and stopped to assist the man laying on the ground. Not realising they were being duped, they invariably would call an ambulance to attend to him.

"The ambulance staff and paramedics would normally recognise Davies and know what he was doing but were duty-bound to deal with him professionally.

"On a number of occasions he was taken to Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury where he was more thoroughly checked over but he was always discharged as having no injuries.

"He has been offered support from numerous agencies and given many opportunities to change his behaviour. Davies' continual lack of engagement has ultimately resulted in this town wide ASBO."