KITCHENER - A man pulled a hunting knife on a light rail transit construction worker in Kitchener and threw a rock through a backhoe's window, court heard on Friday.

Marckus Lecuyer, 35, was walking through a construction site on King Street in downtown Kitchener on May 30. A construction worker told him to walk around the site for his own safety. Lecuyer got angry and said he would be back soon.

When he returned, Lecuyer pulled out a six-inch hunting knife and held it close to the worker's chest.

"Are you ready to play now?" Lecuyer asked him.

He then directed his anger at another construction worker.

"Let's go. I will cut your tongue out," Lecuyer told him.

Walking away, the Kitchener man threw a rock at one of the workers. It hit a backhoe, breaking the window. No one was injured.

Defence lawyer Cooper Lord said alcohol was an "underlying factor" in the crimes.

Lecuyer, who in the past has done construction work, pleaded guilty to carrying a weapon to commit a crime, making threats and mischief.

After he was arrested, Lecuyer got out on bail but breached a no-alcohol condition. He spent the equivalent of 54 days in jail.

Justice Craig Parry agreed to a joint submission from the prosecution and defence for a sentence of time served.

The terms of the suspended sentence include probation for a year, a five-year weapons ban and an order to provide a DNA sample for the national databank. Lecuyer also must stay away from the construction workers and make $1,500 restitution for damaging the backhoe.

Parry warned him he could be resentenced if he breaches his probation terms.