Bone a weapon in fight

IT WAS a fight that could have been a scene from the silver screen, but for the man armed with an animal bone in a brawl outside a police station, the consequences were real.

James Henry Alexander, 53, pleaded guilty in Townsville Magistrates Court on Monday to a count of affray.

Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Peter Obermayer said Alexander had stopped his car in front of the Rockhampton Police station on Bolsover St at 1.35pm on August 16 when a car with two other men invited him to fight.

Alexander picked up an “unknown animal bone” and began “consensually” fighting both the men, with punches thrown between the three men.

Magistrate Steven Mosch said that the fight sounded like it could have been a scene from a movie.

Defence lawyer Andrew Maxwell said that it was not a movie he would like to see, and described the fight as “disgraceful”.

Mr Mosch said it was “difficult” to know what to make of such a “bizarre” situation.

Alexander was fined $750 and a conviction was recorded.