The Lavington man was asleep at a Parkview Crescent house on December 28 last year when someone smashed a glass panel on the veranda.

He was woken by his partner and he picked up the ornamental weapon to try to find the person responsible.

The 35-year-old jumped into his Nissan utility and drove down the road, where he spotted a man and woman and produced the sword.

He accused them of breaking his window and the pair called triple-0.

Police drove to the area and saw Briggs driving on Dale Road and arrested him.

The officers found the weapon under his seat during a search of the vehicle.

Neither victim wanted to make a statement or have any action taken.

Magistrate Erin Kennedy told the married father of three it was the wrong course of action to take.

“I just don’t know why you didn’t call police,” she said in Albury Local Court recently.

“That’s what they’re there for.”

He was convicted and fined $500.

Another man, Matthew Laurence Walker, was also convicted and fined $1300 and placed on a good behaviour bond for a similar but unrelated matter.

Walker was found with a machete in his vehicle while driving on Schaefer Street in Lavington on June 2. 

He told magistrate Tony Murray he had bought it a few days earlier.

“It was just under me car seat,” he said.

“It wasn’t there for any particular reason.

“I bought it off a friend.”

The magistrate asked why the 33-year-old needed such a weapon inside his vehicle.

“I just liked the look of it and was gonna put it in me collection,” he replied.

He was driving to get food at the time and had marijuana in the car, which he said he had forgotten was there.

The weapon, which had a 30-centimetre blade, will be destroyed.

Walker was shot in the right buttock in 2010 and limped into the courtroom.