A MAN has been given a 10-week jail term after dancing and skipping across the M1 at Dodworth in one of the craziest ever attempts to leave Barnsley.
A lorry ground to a virtual halt and cars took evasive action as Joshua James Fisher repeatedly crossed the motorway waving his arms around, Barnsley Magistrates' Court was told.
Fisher, 23, stood on the edge of the hard shoulder and urinated on the slow lane before beginning his antics, said Joanne Lewis Crooks, prosecuting.
Probation officer Rita Dyson said binge drinker Fisher and a mate had come to Barnsley on a night when drinks were cheap. Fisher paid for the taxi here and the friend agreed to settle the fare home.
But the friend ran out of money and they decided to to walk home following the motorway southbound. The friend got a police caution because he never went on the motorway.
John Jones, defending, described the decision as 'bizarre, frightening and potentially dangerous'.
District Judge John Foster, who described his sentence as lenient, said: "Repeatedly running across three lanes of the M1 could have led to all sorts of accidents and potential injuries to road users and yourself. I cannot imagine what you thought you were doing."
Fisher, of St Leonard's Lane, Eastwood, near Rotherham, admitted causing danger to road users, an offence which carried a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.
