Visiting a shop to buy a breakfast snack has proved expensive for an Anglesey roofer.
John Meirion Griffiths, 38, of Bryngaer, Llanddaniel, went into the Spar shop in Station Road in Valley to buy a bacon bap on April 26.
Upon seeing some workmen he had disagreements with, he went to get a crowbar.
Inside the shop, he swung the weapon at one man and, in the ensuing melee, they had to be separated by other customers and staff.
After being ejected from the shop, he threw a National Lottery sign at the building.
Returning to his vehicle, he armed himself with a hammer and a knife used to cut slate.
Griffiths admitted threatening behaviour and three charges of possessing offensive weapons when he appeared at Caernarfon Crown Court.
He was handed an eight-month prison term suspended for 18 months and ordered to attend a thinking skills programme supervised by the probation service.
Griffiths was also fined £500 and ordered to pay £615 costs.
Judge Rhys Rowlands told Griffiths: “These offences were committed in a fairly startling loss of temper.
“You went into the shop, as was your normal habit, but in the event you met people you had fallen out with.
“You had had words and you returned to the shop with a crowbar. That sort of behaviour will not be tolerated by the court. There is no possible excuse for it.
“What you should have done is simply buy the bacon bap you went into the shop for.”
Defence barrister Elen Owen said there was animosity between Griffiths and another family who had lived next door in Caergeiliog.
“There is considerable background to this matter and, a few days before this incident, he complained to police he had been assaulted but he had later decided not to pursue the complaint<” she said.
“However, he accepts he completely lost his temper and that this is a serious matter which crosses the custody threshold.”
She urged the judge to take into account his guilty plea and the references that spoke highly of his skills as a roofer.
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