“On the one hand you weren’t the aggressor,” Piontek said, adding “he was in your face.” But, given where the man was cut, he said “I don’t know, it doesn’t sound like a good time to me.”

The incident occurred in the 800 block of Teutonia Drive, where Gundling previously lived. He since has moved, defense attorney Brett Ekes said. The man’s underwear was cut and his flesh was bleeding, the complaint states.

Assistant District Attorney Rebecca Sommers recommended two years on probation.

“I do believe this is an

appropriate resolution,” she said.

Ekes agreed with the probation recommendation, saying Gundling yelled as the woman drove “very fast” down their street. The woman’s son then ventured onto Gundling’s property and into his garage, and it smelled as if the man had been drinking, Ekes said during the hearing.

Gundling, a master electrician, picked up a metal box cutter — without the blade in it — and ended up cutting the man on the bladeless tool’s sharp edges, Ekes said.