A teenager threatened a hotel security guard with a metal bar during a skirmish in a car park, a court heard.
Danyaal Hussein (19) arrived towards the end of the rumpus, after a group of youths took umbrage at being asked to leave the hotel because they had not paid for a room.
They confronted, and surrounded, the security guard who called for the police to attend outside the Ibis Hotel, on Leicester's Constitution Hill.
Some youths began to punch the guard, someone grabbed his finger and another person grabbed his ID badge.
David Allan, prosecuting, told Leicester Crown Court Hussein arrived in a Vauxhall Corsa and produced a metal bar from the boot.
Hussein told the guard: "I'm going to break your head."
The guard continued backing away.
Mr Allan said: "The group began to break up, on being told the police were on the way.
"The defendant squared up to the guard, before getting back into the car."
He was then arrested.
Hussein, of Averil Road, off Colchester Road, Leicester, told the officers he went there to collect a relative when he encountered the situation.
He pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour and possessing an offensive weapon, a metal bar, just after midnight on March 16.
He was given a 12 month community order with 120 hours of unpaid work.
Hussein, who has since enrolled on a university business management and marketing course, was also ordered to pay £480 costs.
Judge Ebraham Mooncey said: "You attended the scene when the situation was already heated.
"You thought your cousin was being threatened and went to your car to get the bar part of a dumbbell that was in the boot.
"I'm told you acted foolishly, in haste and bad judgement, and I can't disagree with that."
Justine Robinson, mitigating, said: "He arrived to pick up his younger cousin, misread the situation and behaved impulsively.
"He made admissions to the police and accepted his behaviour shouldn't have been as it was."
Hussein, who has no previous convictions, did not use the offensive weapon to cause any injury, said Miss Robinson.
