A 22-year-old man appeared in Magistrates' Court yesterday to plead guilty to displaying riotous behaviour – on his birthday.

The court heard from Crown counsel Cindy Clarke that on February 23, Police stopped a vehicle on Cedar Avenue in which Joshua Place of Twin Lane Place, Pembroke was the passenger.

Place was asked for his name and replied: "What you want my name for, I ain't giving s***."

He was then told he would be searched and said: "You ain't f***ing searching me, today is my birthday."

Place continued on with verbal threats and was then arrested. He became violent and kicked the Police car window causing $163 in damages. Place has no previous convictions.

"The Police pulled me out of the car and would not tell me why they were arresting me which is why I said what I said," he said to Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner yesterday.

"When I was in the Police car, they sprayed me with pepper spray and I have asthma, that is why I became violent and kicked the window."

The Century Construction labourer was given a conditional discharge for 24 months and ordered to pay for the damages to the Police car.