Premium Content Subscriber only A 27-YEAR-OLD man allegedly sent the Hervey Bay RSL into lockdown at his own birthday celebration. Hervey Bay Magistrates Court heard on Thursday Matthew Roy Collins also abused multiple people, including his own mother, at the birthday gathering, where family members were forced to seek shelter from him. It was alleged that on February 22, about 10.30pm, an argument broke out. "The defendant has been involved in a verbal argument with several family members, during the argument the defendant has physically pushed and dragged his mother to the ground," Police Prosecutor Louese McConnell said. Security officers at the RSL and members of the public in the RSL at the time, intervened before Collins allegedly verbally abused security and staff and family members "sought shelter".