A TEENAGE tearaway was given an Asbo (Anti Social Behaviour Order) ordering him to get drunk and misbehave in a court blunder.
The error was only noticed when the 15-year-old ended up in front of magistrates again for an alleged breach of the conditions.
The red-faced bench heard the youngster, who cannot be named, was technically breaking the law if he was found walking the streets of a quiet market town WITHOUT booze.
The order also required him to use threatening behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to members of the public in Alnwick, Northumberland, where he lives.
An administrative mistake meant the wording of the order - made last February after a string of complaints - reads 'without' rather than 'with'.
An exasperated police source said: "It took a long time to bring him to book and get him before the court in the first place. It is maddening to spend all that time only for the order then to tell him to go out and misbehave. It really does beggar belief."
Officials are now trying to track down the magistrate who made the original order against the teenager so it can be reversed.
But as the boy was not technically in breach of the previous order he has escaped any punishment.
The new order will ban him from having alcohol in his possession or being drunk in public.
He will also be prevented from causing distress with unruly behaviour.
