Stawell Secondary College was forced to apologise to a number of Stawell businesses after three misguided youths filmed attempts to disrupt shopkeepers and staff last week.
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They have uploaded footage to Facebook and Youtube, creating a video about their antics.
The teenagers entered Clarks Furniture and “roughly” threw themselves onto a lounge room suite valued at $6500 when they were approached by a worker.
“He picked up a price tag and threw it on the floor,” shop owner Llewelyn Clark said.
”He was being really arrogant and smart and asked how much the suite was- when he found out it was $6500 he reached into his pocket and offered to pay 80 cents for the suite.”
Mr Clark said there were three boys- one was seated outside and the other two were inside the store.
“They were in the shop for 15 minutes,” he said.
“You don’t suspect you’re being filmed because one of the boys had his phone down like he was playing a game, but he was actually filming.”
Mr Clark warned the youths to never act inappropriately inside his shop again.
“Look out if you come into the shop again, we won’t tolerate it,” he said.
“There are much better things for you to do in life then to go running around and getting yourself into trouble and being a public nuisance.”
The teenagers also asked for condoms at Grampians Community Health, requested pornographic videos from Network Video and asked members of the public for cigarettes, despite being underage
Stawell Secondary College acting principal Kevin O’Neil said the school was aware of the incidents and had apologised to the businesses involved on behalf of the school community.
“We approached the businesses on Friday and apologised unreservedly,” he said.
“We are working with the students involved and their parents.”
Stawell Sergeant Russell Brown said police could not become involved unless the teenagers committed a criminal offence.
“It is not unlawful what they are doing,” he said.
“It is inappropriate and if anything they are acting like a public nuisance, but it is not a criminal act.
“In regards to filming, when someone says to stop filming you must or that becomes an offence.”