A woman high on drink and drugs who stole a passenger ferry and crashed into boats shouting ”I’m Jack Sparrow” has been jailed.

Reckless Alison Whelan, 51, was on a two-day bender when she climbed onto the moored 100-seater Dart Princess in Dartmouth, Devon.

Whelan was so drunk on Lambrini she dialled 999 and officers raced to the scene but she then unmoored the 45ft vessel and started drifting away.

She was heard shouting “I’m Jack Sparrow” and “I’m A Pirate” as she made her escape on the double-decker ferry.

via ‘I’m a pirate’ shouted drunken woman before hijacking passenger ferry – Telegraph.

HT davidallengreen for telegraph backplot.