‘Is that straight, mate?': Tradie explodes at barber over haircut
A NSW tradie has been filmed delivering a foul-mouthed tirade after claiming a barber left him with a wonky haircut — only to insist on paying before storming out.
Viral footage of the incident in regional NSW over the weekend has sparked debate, with some sympathising and defending the customer as a 'good bloke' and others saying he went too far.
'How the f**k are you going to come two different f**king angles, mate?' the tradie is heard loudly berating the barber in the video.
The customer, wearing hi-vis and workboots, points angrily at his visibly off-centre buzz cut.
'Look at that — is that straight, d**khead?' he yells.
'Is it straight, mate? Is that f**king straight, mate, or is one back here and one over f**king here? F**king use your head, c**t.'
The barber offers to let him leave with no charge but the man refuses.
'Hurry up, I'm paying for the f**king thing,' he says. 'You did your job.'
The clip has racked up 300,000 views and hundreds of comments since Sunday.
'Good bloke, he's unhappy but still paid. What's the issue?' one person wrote.
'He didn't like how it was cut but still paid. He's a good guy,' another agreed.
A third wrote, 'He's a great bloke for doing that, they did do the job but (he claims) they did it wrong, so he paid for it and left. Now they lose him as a customer... good on him.'
Other readers chimed in with claims of 'nightmare' experiences at barbers.'Imagine being the guy going next,' one person joked.
Several people expressed respect for the man for speaking up about a bad haircut.
'I'm the guy who sits in the chair and nods when the barber goes around with the mirror at the end,' one said.
'Deep inside you know they cooked you but you still have to fake smile,' another laughed.
Some viewers defended the barber.
'My son gets his hair done there all the time and has no problems,' one woman wrote.
Others said the man's outburst was inappropriate.
One person claimed he 'escalated so unreasonably in this situation', while another argued he 'could have handled it better'.
'Old mate didn't need to make a scene and have a blow-up inside the shop,' a third wrote.
Another commented, 'Good bloke? Abuse people and he's a good bloke … right.'
Attempts to reach the barber shop by phone were unsuccessful on Monday morning.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
ABC News
25 minutes ago
- ABC News
Queensland life coach Wolfgang Raven Wildgrace jailed for years of child sexual abuse, rape
A Queensland man who once touted himself as a life coach and therapist, has been sentenced to almost a decade behind bars for rape and child sexual abuse. One of Wolfgang Raven Wildgrace's claims was that he helped people "manage their emotions effectively". It was this reputation that led him to his involvement with an AFL pre-season camp for the Adelaide Crows in 2018 that became notorious for being "psychologically stressful" and offensive to Indigenous players. But in the years before, he psychologically manipulated two children and sexually abused them. Wildgrace was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years behind bars at the District Court in Cairns today after pleading guilty to a raft of offences. They include two counts of rape, two counts of repeated sexual conduct with a child, and more than 30 counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16. The court heard Wildgrace, now 59, committed the offences over eight years from about late 2009 until 2017. The abuse escalated to occurring on an almost weekly basis, the court heard, with victims made to believe the acts were "sexual training". Wildgrace's former partner Sonya Maria Lindley-Jones, 52, also pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent treatment of a child under 12. Her charges related to an incident in which the couple performed a sex act in the presence of children. A concern was first raised with police in 2015, but the victims did not disclose the abuse when they were questioned. Almost a decade later, in early 2024, Wildgrace disclosed the offending to a friend after learning a report was to be made to police. But after a meeting was called to discuss the offending, he and Lindley-Jones suddenly disappeared from their south-east Queensland home, leaving their bank accounts untouched. The pair was arrested and charged in March last year, having been found in the far north Queensland town of Kuranda. Wildgrace and Lindley-Jones' victims addressed them directly in court, reading out statements in which they detailed how the "twisted sort of therapy" shattered them psychologically. "You knew the moment you met me that I had no-one to look out for me, to protect me," one victim told Wildgrace. Another told the court she needed regular therapy to recover from what she had endured. She said the fact that Wildgrace and Lindley-Jones ran a therapy business themselves had "shattered the trust a person should be able to place in a healthcare professional". Defence counsel Aaron Dunkerton, representing Wildgrace, said his client was sorry, had suffered abuse as a child, and had PTSD symptoms from a siege in the 1990s when he was held hostage by a gunman. From 2011, Wildgrace had been drinking heavily and he had also used cannabis and mushrooms, which caused his sense of reality to "become quite warped", Mr Dunkerton said. Rachelle Logan, acting for Lindley-Jones, said her client was "genuinely remorseful" and had only since understood she was controlled by Wildgrace in their relationship. Neither Wildgrace nor Lindley-Jones had any criminal history. In sentencing, Judge Anthony Rafter SC said the offending was serious and involved a "grave breach of trust". Wildgrace will be eligible for parole at the end of 2028. Lindley-Jones was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' jail, but the remainder of her sentence is suspended, having already served 14 months. She will be subject to three years' probation on release.
ABC News
25 minutes ago
- ABC News
Ombudsman criticises ACT Integrity Commission for awarding $150,000 consulting contract to then-CEO
The ACT Ombudsman has criticised the territory's corruption watchdog for awarding a $150,000 consulting contact to its then-CEO, while he was still in the top job. An investigation into the ACT Integrity Commission was sparked when the Ombudsman noticed the contract had been awarded, via the ACT government's Tenders ACT website in 2022, without any declared conflicts of interest. It is the first time Ombudsman Iain Anderson, in his capacity as Inspector of the ACT Integrity Commission, has used his powers to investigate the conduct of the commission or its personnel. The investigation found that while he was still in the role the then-CEO, known as Mr A, had planned to resign before his contract ended, but would stay on at the commission as a consultant, working with the new CEO and Integrity Commissioner. Mr Anderson's report, provided to the ACT Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, found that Mr A had prepared his own documents for the procurement of his consultant contract without declaring a conflict of interest. The report also found Mr A suggested the contract be made exempt from any public competitive process that usually assesses whether a proposal is value for money. The commissioner then copied those pre-prepared documents and failed to declare any apprehension of bias in his decision to engage the then-CEO, or seek independent advice, the report said. "These shortcomings occurred despite the commission being on the record as stating that 'managing conflicts of interest effectively and appropriately is an inherent part of working in the ACT public sector'," the Ombudsman said in his report. "As an integrity agency, in my view it is desirable the commission demonstrates integrity and probity in its procurement practices, otherwise it risks undermining public confidence in the broader systems it is meant to safeguard." The Ombudsman said Mr A was in a position of authority and breached his statutory obligations to avoid, declare, and manage a conflict of interest. "He had a clear personal financial interest with respect to the proposal that he be engaged, which was considered by the commission while he was still the CEO," he said. Mr A did not accept that a conflict of interest declaration was required, but said that if it was, it would rest with the final decision maker, namely the commissioner. The commissioner disputed findings that Mr A had breached his obligations as "completely unjustified", given a conflict of interest disclosure had been declared in writing but was not in the correct form. The commissioner argued that Mr A, who had been responsible for building the commission from its inception in 2019, had arranged to stay on at the watchdog to manage the significant outstanding structural work that would likely remain after his resignation. He said that Mr A's retention was a practical solution to a "difficult and stressful task" because there was no advantage in recruiting an outsider to complete that work until the new CEO could assume complete control. "The criticisms levelled by the inspector about the manner in which the essentially simple management of Mr A['s] departure proceeded represent the triumph of form over substance and a complete disregard for common sense," the commissioner said. At the time, the ACT Integrity Commission did not have a procurement policy in place. Mr Anderson said the investigation had exposed a possible gap in legislation which requires the commissioner to report conflicts of interest to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and the inspector, when they apply in a strict legal sense. "It may be appropriate for the commissioner to disclose to the speaker and the inspector the management of apprehensions of bias in the same way the commissioner discloses management of conflicts of interests," the report said. The Ombudsman made three recommendations, including engaging independent procurement advice as an integral part of any proposed single select tender process, and developing a procurement policy consistent with ACT government frameworks. Both of those were rejected by the ACT Integrity Commission, which only accepted a recommendation to develop and maintain a register of mandatory staff training to include training on conflicts of interest, bias, and procurement training. The Ombudsman was not required to publish the report into the integrity commission until its annual operational review in October 2025, but said he considered it appropriate to prepare a special report given the public interest issues identified and the rejection of two recommendations made.
ABC News
37 minutes ago
- ABC News
What is the Special Operations Group Tasmanian police unit?
What led to the fatal shooting of Tasmania Police Constable Keith Smith will be pieced together over coming days or weeks, with investigations continuing. The involvement of the Special Operations Group, which was at the property, will form part of that. Tasmania's Special Operations Group, or SOG, is similar to other highly-trained tactical police units around Australia. The Tasmanian SOG has been a full-time unit, with 20 members since 2024, stationed in the south and the north. Prior to this, the SOG consisted of three part-time units. The group performs a wide range of functions including helping breach buildings, attending sieges, drug lab searches, and other high-risk jobs. Police Minister Felix Ellis said the move to full-time has "significantly bolstered" the ability to respond to high-risk situations. Police Association of Tasmania (PAT) president Shane Tilley told the ABC SOG members were the "elite" of Tasmania Police. "They are highly trained individuals who are trained in less lethal capabilities — they are trained to use long arms, pistols." "They may not be required to go into an address, [they could] … simply just run a little bit of security around the perimeter," said Mr Tilley. Commissioner Adams said the SOG had attended over 800 jobs in 18 months as part of its "frontline response" work. "Now, that we have a permanent Special Operations Group, we can deploy our Special Operations Group in a wider, broader manner," she said. She said they assisted police officers with "routine duties", including the response to retail crime. Mr Tilley said a "good portion" of the 800 jobs the group had attended would have been searches, often involving the drug squad. "Some would be high-risk searches, others would have a lower level of risk attached to them," he said. He said it was a "blessing" to have the SOG on the ground being used more often now. He said the officers who picked up a job would normally approach the SOG "if they thought that there was potential for things to develop", and that they would attend "if they thought they could help". Thus far, Tasmania Police has not revealed much about why the specialist tactical group were at the North Motton property on Monday, as officers delivered a court-issued warrant. "There are lots of questions that we all have as a result of the incident, and that's why we need to be really methodical in our investigation," Commissioner Donna Adams told reporters in Devonport. Commissioner Adams said the SOG had been requested for the job and had waited at the bottom of the driveway, while two officers, including Constable Smith, approached the house. She said they had responded after Constable Smith was shot. "They were also threatened by the offender, and they shot the offender in the hand before making an arrest." She told ABC Hobart Mornings that "had it not been for their presence I think we would have been confronted with a number of other deaths". She did not provide any information on why they had been requested, or why there may have been a heightened level of concern about the job. A police spokesperson said they weren't able to respond to questions regarding SOG methodology for "operational reasons". Mr Tilley said it was his understanding this was not an "authorised SOG job" and that they were there as support. "Those members from the SOG were simply there to act as backup units and assistance if it was required," he said. He said the SOG crew responded "within seconds" to the situation. "There will be opportunities down the track, as part of this investigation, to see what those assessments came to but clearly the resource was in the area at the time and able to attend the address."
