World champion surfer unleashes on “disrespectful” kids
World champion surfer Joel Parkinson has unleashed fury at a pair of vloggers he claimed were disrespecting victims of the floods.
Vloggers Paton and Steeze shared a video of themselves to Instagram sliding down a muddy hill near Duranbah Beach at Tweed Heads.
The video, which has since been viewed more than 10,000 times, shows the pair being angrily approached by the surfing legend telling them to show respect to the victims of the floods.
“That’s enough. Hey you f***ing idiots. Get the f*** off. People have lost their houses,” Parkinson yells.
“You should be more responsible you f***wits. You know people lost everything in these floods.”
“Oh settle down mate. Don’t bring that into it. This is not someone losing their house in the floods bro, so don’t do that,” one of the men responded.
The man continued to say that they knew people who had lost their homes.
Parkinson asked the young men where they live, before the filmer interjected telling his mate to let it go.
The video then cuts to the boys back at the top of the hill when Parkinson once again yells at them saying “they can’t do that’.
The older man behind the camera jumps in telling Parkinson “that’s enough”.
“Settle down. They’re having their fun alright. You’ve had your fun, you try to stop them from having their fun. We've had a gutful.
“Have fun boys, live.
“Mate we're here to have fun, they’re all having fun, no one’s hurting anyone or oppressing anyone except for you.”
The boys agree to sliding down one more time before heading home, when another man jumps at the cameraman prompting the boys to get up and defend him.
Parkinson attempts to calm the situation as the men all swear at each other.
'Have some respect,' the surfing legend says.
'You have some f***ing respect, look at my camera,' one of the vloggers replies, before
Parkinson calls it a 'piece of s***'.
Some viewers sided with the vloggers calling out Parkinson’s for allegedly doing the same thing last week.
“Floor was already f***ed. Parko he was doing the same thing last week I don’t see what the problem is,’ one wrote.
“With everything going on at the moment.. covid lockdowns floods this is nothing to get upset about! The kids are just having some fun.. the grass will grow back the first week the sun's out. He is just an entitled w***er assaulting kids for living a little is all I see in the clip!’ another commented.
“Hahahah Parko was sliding down that last week and he posted it on his story,” another wrote.
“Didn't I see him sliding down it last week? Now he decides it's disrespectful? GTFO. What a hero picking on some young guys having fun during a sh*t time,” someone else commented.
View the video here. Warning: explicit language used.
Image: Instagram