TWO youths went on a drunken “Wild West” car rampage with BB guns after drinking alcohol and ethanol, a court was told.

The 17-year-old boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, both admitted shooting the guns out of a car as it weaved through Malvern and Worcester.

They had been at a house party in Hanley Castle, near Malvern, when they decided to accompany another partygoer back to Worcester.

They took with them BB guns, ammunition and a large machete.

Mark Johnson, prosecuting, told Worcester Youth Court that at about midnight, the owner of an Audi was driving along Worcester Road, Malvern, when he saw someone hanging out of an oncoming vehicle holding a BB gun and something struck the car.

He reported the vehicle to police and it was later stopped in Worcester.

The car was searched and officers seized a large-bladed machete, a pot of plastic ball bearings and four BB guns. A Stanley knife was also recovered from one of the youths.

The boy said he had put the Stanley knife in his rear pocket after using it to open crates of beer at the party.

The other, who was 16 at the time, admitted the machete was his, telling police he had bought it a few days earlier “as a joke”, although he could not remember why he had taken it with him.

Mr Johnson said the consequences of their actions could have been “very serious”, for example, had they distracted an oncoming driver.

Sam Lamsdale, defending, said her clients’ parents were “mortified” by what had happened.

She told the court the boys were otherwise of good character and handed magistrates character references from family and friends.

Ms Lamsdale said one of the boys had been in the care of an adult who had been a close family friend as his parents had gone on holiday.

She said he bought alcohol for the boys and when ethanol was found in the house where the party was being held, he poured it into a vodka bottle and encouraged one of the defendants to drink from it.

Ms Lamsdale told the court both boys did well at school, had jobs and interests outside of work including sport.

She said they were “extremely remorseful” and “ashamed” of their actions and would not have behaved in such a way had they been sober.

The boys, who admitted possessing the knives and imitation firearms, were each sentenced to a referral order, requiring them to work with the Youth Offending Service for 12 months.

They were also ordered to each pay £85 costs.

Chairman of the magistrates bench Jill Hart said the whole event was “almost unbelievable”.

“We hear lots of things in this court and this is huge,” she said.

“It sounds like an episode from the Wild West and it was Malvern.”

Magistrates also ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the seized items.

The adult driver of the car is due to answer charges at a separate court hearing.