Man Shining Laser At Police Helicopter Hoping It'll Be Him Who Bucks The Trend And Isn't Immediately And Brutally Arrested

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A Betoota Heights man with little stake in society shone a laser at a police helicopter last night around 2:35am and was promptly located and taken into police custody.

A 48-year-old man is currently on bail but helping Queensland Police with their enquiries into the matter.

However, due to the nature of that organisation, this masthead can reveal that the person brutally arrested last night and had the dogs put on him for no reason other than the officers thought it'd be funny, is Peter John Williams of Greenbow Circuit and additional charges are expected to be laid.

Appearing before the Betoota Magistrates Court this morning, Mr Williams was granted bail and has indicated he will plead guilty to the offence of public mischief, as well as two counts of endangering the safety of an aircraft under the Civil Aviation Act 1988, obstruction of police under the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000, and unlawful use of a laser pointer under the Weapons Act 1990. Mr Williams is now facing up to 10 years in prison.

Speaking to our reporter outside court this afternoon, Mr Williams says he feels he has already been punished enough for his alleged offending.

"Look at me," he said.

Mr Williams gestured to his face, where a number of deep puncture marks were clearly visible under butterfly stitches put on my the greenest resident doctor in the Diamantina Shire.

"And look at my chest. They put the dogs on me and let them bite me again and again and again."

To Mr Williams' point, he had close to 100 bites from his belt to his ears and was clearly in an extremely high-level of pain.

"They called the dogs off me and then, then I heard the most sickening sound and naughty townie can ever hear. A policeman's telescopic baton getting unsheathed. That horrible, metallic click."

Mr Williams alleges the police beat him with reckless abandon and even took breaks, working in shifts to pummel his meat sack like a bit of cheap rump on steak night.

"Don't get me wrong, I deserve it. I thought that I'd buck the trend of getting caught for shining a laser at a police helicopter but the odds, as it turns out, were against me in a big way. They found me in less than five minutes. I went from standing in my garden giggling to myself to being shirtless and barely conscious in the back of a paddy wagon, looking like a jug of tomato juice poured in a colander in seconds," he said.

"I think I've been punished enough and I think the judge thought so as well. He just shook his head at the state of me."

Mr Williams will be back in court on the 10th of July.

More to come.