Terrifying footage has emerged of a man threatening a motorist with a large pickaxe.
Confrontation video taken by another driver showed the man, wearing a high-visibility orange shirt and dark pants, wielding the rusty brown pickaxe at an intersection in Albert Park, in Melbourne’s south, on Saturday.
He then began speaking aggressively to the driver while brandishing the tool.
Terrifying video footage captured the moment a trader (pictured) threatened a motorist with a pickaxe at a Queens Road intersection in Albert Park, Melbourne, on Saturday.
Moments later, the man slammed the ax into the roof of the vehicle and then slammed it into the driver’s side window of the vehicle.
He continued his tirade against the motorist by pointing and yelling at him.
Radio presenter Jacqui Felgate expressed outrage at the incident at 3AW Tuesday afternoon.
She said the driver in the high-visibility vehicle had overtaken another driver before confronting him with the pickaxe.
“Imagine if there were kids in the back seat of that car,” he said.
“I think it’s pretty scary and threatening as an adult, let alone if children witness the person behaving this way.”
Glenn Weir, deputy commissioner of road policing at Victoria Police, told the program that officers had been informed of the incident.
The man was seen pointing his finger (pictured) and shouting at the driver of the vehicle, during the shocking roadside confrontation.
“We have spoken to the motorist who was a victim of that (incident) and he does not want to take any action,” Commissioner Weir said.
“The behavior is completely unacceptable, I don’t know what world that guy lives in where he thinks that’s acceptable behavior.”
He said police would continue to investigate the motorist and urged drivers who witnessed similar incidents to contact police in the first instance rather than uploading videos to social media.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia that police did not receive a report of the incident.
