AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd arrested again

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd leaves Tauranga District Court after being arrested in relation to breach of bail conditions on Thursday.

Joel Ford/Getty Images AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd leaves Tauranga District Court after being arrested in relation to breach of bail conditions on Thursday.

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was hauled back into court Thursday after a bizarre scuffle with someone further than a New Zealand coffee shop during which a witness said he turned on his own bodyguard.

The title-holder of Columbus Coffee in Tauranga, a bay city in the country’s northwest, said he saw the troubled musician hassling a much larger man further than the store at around 10:20 a.m. Thursday.

“I saw him following a taller, larger guy and trying to punch the guy,” Leo Rojas told Australia’s Associated Press.

Rojas said the larger man resisted fighting back, warning the wiry Rudd, “Look, I don’t want to break your face.”

Eventually, the big man lost his cool and retaliated, pushing Rudd to the pavement.

“He literally fell away like a glide,” Rojas recalled.

Rudd’s body guard eventually stepped in to break the pair, and that’s when Rudd turned on him.

Joel Ford/Getty Images Rudd is due back in court on February 10 for a case review hearing for charges of threatening to kill, and possession of cannabis and methamphetamine. A coffee shop owner said Rudd was fighting with a much larger man outside his shop in Turanga on Thursday morning. Joel Ford/Getty Images A coffee shop title-holder said Rudd was fighting with a much larger man further than his shop in Turanga on Thursday morning.

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“[He] started punching and kicking his own bodyguard, which I found amusing,” Rojas told the AP.

Rudd eventually left the scene, but police trapped up to him later, the report said.

A local news outlet published a photo showing the handcuffed musician getting escorted to a police car by two officers.

Rudd’s latest bust comes weeks after his shocking arrest for allegedly attempting to arrange a murder and drug possession.

A New Zealand crown solicitor later withdrew the most honest charge, which caught up an alleged plot to murder prostitutes.

He was still facing charges for threatening to kill and possession of marijuana and methamphetamine. He was back due in court in February.

Rudd briefly spoke to reporters outside the courthouse before speeding away in a friend's car.

Joel Ford/Getty Images Rudd briefly spoke to reporters further than the courthouse before speeding away in a friend’s car.

At a court appearance Thursday following the road tussle, Rudd’s lawyer told the judge the vexed rocker had a “chance” run-in with someone he was barred from considering under his previous bail conditions, The New Zealand Herald reported.

The bail conditions forbid Rudd from having friend with witnesses or complainants in the drug case.

The judge eventually released Rudd on the shape up that he didn’t take any illegal drugs.

“It was a meeting with a bigwig he wasn’t meant to frequent with in a shop. It was a chance meeting and then there was friend from that,” his lawyer, Craig Tuck, told The Herald further than the courtroom.

Rudd spoke to the press briefly, offering mostly muttered, unintelligible responses, before zipping away in a friend’s sportscar, a video showed.