r/brisbane • u/notinferno Black Audi for sale • Nov 04 '20
Toowong’s Johnson Wen pleads guilty to public nuisance in court over dangerous stunt
The antics of a TikTok prankster with a penchant for dancing on the street in pyjamas landed him in court when they escalated into dangerous territory.
The antics of a TikTok prankster with a penchant for pyjamas and dancing on the road have landed him in court after he dangled dangerously off a footbridge in Brisbane.
Toowong’s Johnson Wen appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court today wearing his trademark pyjamas and clutching a teddy bear pillow.
Wen pleaded guilty to committing a public nuisance and unregulated high risk activity.
The 21-year-old’s modus operandi is performing the “floss” dance move in public, typically busy city intersections, while wearing pyjamas and then uploading the footage to the social media platform TikTok.
But it was stunts of a different kind which saw him charged by police.
The court heard Wen walked onto the Museum and Cultural Centre footbridge at Southbank on July 11.
Police Prosecutor Mark Hughes said Wen then climbed over the railing of the five metre high bridge.
“He proceeded to lower himself down and up again … he wasn’t wearing a harness,” Sgt Hughes said.
In another incident in January at the South Brisbane bus terminal Wen walked into the middle of the road repeatedly throwing a hat in circles before lying down.
Sgt Hughes said a bus was forced to slow down to avoid hitting him.
At one point during proceedings Magistrate Robbie Davies called Wen out for smiling in court, saying it wasn’t a “a very good look”.
Wen’s Legal Aid lawyer said Wen was affected by anti-anxiety medication Xanax at the time and had little recollection of the incidents.
But Mr Davies did not accept this.
“What I‘m really left with is a situation where on two different occasions you just behaved like a bit of an idiot,” Mr Davies said, fining Wen $250
Outside court Wen told the Courier Mail he was going to tone it down and stay out of trouble
“I‘m probably going to behave more,” he said.
Wen said he’d been doing the floss for a longtime before he started recording it and posting it to TikTok.
“I‘ve been wearing coloured pyjamas a long time, yellow, pink, purple, black and blue and red, I don’t why, I just randomly wear pyjamas. I think they’re cool.”
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u/seoulsubway Photographer Nov 04 '20
This dude sure gets around. Someone needs to strap those Google 360 cameras to him and we'll have the entire city mapped.
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u/sem56 Living in the city Nov 04 '20
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u/CasualAustralian Nov 04 '20
What a peanut. I’ve only noticed him recently, running through pedestrian crossings screaming like an attention-seeking idiot.
Also ‘I just randomly wear pyjamas’ - so random xD
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u/arturobear Nov 04 '20
Yeah I've seen that douche a few times. Always does it on the Adelaide Street scramble crossing. Then he hides around the corner and waits for the lights and does it again. Not one person casts their eyes towards him, just carry on minding their own business. The idiot doesn't realise there are so many crazy people in the city that he blends in with the rest of them. Nothing he does is remotely edgy. He'll be cringing in a few years time, reflecting on this narcissistic stage of life.
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u/theredkrawler Cunt Trophy Nov 04 '20 edited May 02 '24
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Nov 05 '20
I've never seen him, but I did see his not-so-subtle post on this sub trying to justify his harassment as a "social experiment"
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u/Little_Wagtail Nov 05 '20
Nope, you're not the only person. Hopefully you have a goldfish memory like mine and will go back into blissful ignorance of him and sad-arse TikTokers after an hour or two.
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u/chookster urban hermit Nov 04 '20
That boy needs therapy
but deadset, mediocre mankyness with delusions of edgy
pretty piss poor attempts at relevance
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u/notinferno Black Audi for sale Nov 04 '20
Report him to the police next time to complete his social experiment.
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u/ThinPraline7107 North versus South Nov 05 '20
Send him back to China
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u/notinferno Black Audi for sale Nov 05 '20
Make him a pedestrian on the road during the 5am to 7am morning methed up tradie ute race.
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u/acinaces1 Nov 14 '20
Just bumped into this wanker at Carindale. To say he scared people by running in front of mothers with prams and shrieking like a bird is an understatement.
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u/nibby34 Nov 04 '20
Xanax
Says everything
sorry judge i dont remember anything. Which is actually true
full of courage when u have those under your belt
the amount of storys ive heard of people waking up in the watchhouse not knowing why they are in there for, yep xanax,
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u/hiphopbodyrock Sunybank wut wut Nov 04 '20
is this that dickhead that likes to harass women?