A Scots car dealer threatened to carry out a petrol bomb attack during a bizarre row over the ownership of a speedboat.
Ross Lamb went ballistic after the boat and its trailer were towed away by owner Clifford Henderson after the craft went missing in Edinburgh.
Lamb, 34, claimed the boat belonged to him after striking a deal to swap the vessel for a car.
Clifford was asked to call “Fat Ross” during the dispute, the city’s sheriff court heard, and ended up on the phone with Lamb.
During the call, furious Lamb told Clifford: “I’m going to petrol bomb you all. I’ll take all your money and your house.”
Lamb appeared at the court on Wednesday and admitted making a call which was grossly offensive, or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character, in that he made threats towards Clifford.
Fiscal depute Kirstie Webb said the speedboat and trailer had disappeared from its usual parking spot.
Ms Webb said Clifford was made aware the boat was now parked behind a shipping container in the city’s Muirhouse area.
The court was told Clifford and his partner went to recover it and were harangued by a group of youths telling him the boat didn’t belong to him.
Ms Webb said: “Mr Henderson ignored that and continued with the recovery of his boat.”
She said Clifford’s partner was later asked to call “Fat Ross” over its ownership and given a mobile number.
Clifford called and spoke to Lamb who “believed the boat belonged to him”, the court heard.
Ms Webb said Lamb threatened to “petrol bomb you all” before the call on April 18 last year was ended by Clifford.
Defence agent Melissa Virtue said her client believed there had been a deal to “swap” the speedboat for a car.
Ms Virtue said: “He was under the impression the boat had been taken from him.
“Both men seemed to believe they owned the boat.”
The solicitor said dad-of-one Lamb worked buying cars which he “does up” then sells.
Sheriff Matthew Auchincloss fined Lamb, of the city’s Wardieburn area, £580.
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