The FirstFoot "You definitely had it coming" Award for this or virtually any other week has to go to the admirably persistent chap whose story appeared in the "Edinburgh Evening News" from September 25, 2001.

The 22 year old man in question marched into Portobello Police Station on the evening of 21st September, went up to the counter and demanded to be arrested immediately, claiming himself to be a wanted man for offences committed South of the border.

On taking his name and checking their records, however, the police assured him that there was no warrant existing for his arrest and no reason for him to be detained.

Not satisfied with this response, the man refused to leave and began to shout and scream at the bemused police officers, swearing (quite literally) that he was a f***ing murderer and a rapist and it was therefore their duty to arrest him.

So belligerent did he become in his angry protestations of guilt, the police duly obliged with his request and arrested him for the somewhat lesser charge of Breach of the Peace.

Out of (understandable) concern for his mental state, they then had him examined by a psychiatrist who duly declared him to be sane, and therefore fit to plead.

In court, the man told the judge, Sheriff Roger Craik QC, that he had overreacted because the police "were cheeky to him".

It transpired that the accused had been drinking before turning himself in to the authorities. We would never have guessed!

Fining the man £75, the Sheriff told him that he had been "a victim of his own success".