An Australian teenager who had fun spilling milk on a group of young women on a boat has reportedly been repaid by his private school, which allegedly expelled him for the tasteless joke.
“We continue to firmly believe that this behavior was completely unacceptable and have treated the matter with the utmost seriousness,” said the private school Melbourne Grammar School, according to the Australian newspaper “Herald Sun,” the “New York Post” reported on Thursday .
According to the American newspaper, on January 27, a video showing a young Australian spilling milk on passengers on a boat on the Yarra River in Victoria reached more than 32.6 million views after he shared it on TikTok.
Except that the young women had turned back to the platform to find the author of the bad joke, who had just ruined one of them's birthday by spraying not only the passengers, but also their food tray.
“You book a GoBoat for your friend's birthday and a kid on the deck above us pours us a whole bottle of milk [rire] […] “We would like to find whoever ruined our day,” a friend of the birthday girl, Veronica Burgess, wrote on TikTok. We’re actually going to stink.”
The request would not have fallen on deaf ears: Internet users would then have taken it upon themselves to find the boy's school, a private school in Melbourne whose tuition fees range from $28,200 to $37,600 per year, to which they sent the video would have.
“Please stop contacting my school. My school caught me and I'm threatened with expulsion. I can't believe you would do that to a minor. You're ruining my life because of one wasted day […] I'm just a child and you ruined my life. Too far,” he would have reacted on the podium.
Hearing nothing wrong, the school immediately imposed “a combination of suspension and other punitive measures, restitution, apologies and meetings” on the student before ultimately firing him for his actions, according to the Herald Sun.
At the same time, Victoria Police also intervened to issue a warning of an unlawful attack on the boy and confirmed to Australian media that the case was now closed.