A magistrate has described the antics of a man who left a black balaclava in his car while he broke into a smash repairs yard looking for car parts as "pretty sinister".
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"Whatever's going on in your life, Richard Funston told Nathan Peter Coleman, "you need to get help for whatever it is causing you to offend."
Mr Funston said the balaclava was just one of several items that provided what was probably the true context of what Coleman was doing.
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He put on a head torch and grabbed some pliers, which he used to cut the Albury Auto Repairs holding yard's wire fence.
But he then took off again without taking anything, soon after his movements activated a security camera.
"It was opportunistic what he was doing," defence lawyer Angus Lingham said.
Mr Funston placed him on a 12-month community corrections order and a 12-month conditional release order, the latter without a conviction, on charges of destroy or damage property, enter enclosed lands and an unrelated driving charge.
