Three teenagers have gone on a rampage inside a Gold Coast gym.
CCTV shows the three boys forcing their way inside a 24-hour gym and going upstairs before hurling exercise equipment to the floor below.
Plates, 10-kilogram medicine balls and a chair were sent flying from the mezzanine, narrowly avoiding two innocent gym-goers.
“I got a call from my wife at 5am saying that the gym was trashed,” gym owner Casper Turner said.
“They’ve thrown food and drinks around in the gym and scattered rubbish everywhere.
“They’ve gone up onto the mezzanine, thrown all of the medicine balls off the top, they’ve thrown all the chairs from the tables off the top and all the gym balls just through the gym.”
Turner, who opened the Pimpama gym last year, said the area has been repeatedly targeted by young crime but he never thought it would affect his business.
He said the group left behind a mess and a repair bill in the thousands.
“We just did a massive clean to get all the rubbish and all the sticky stuff off the floor, got it up to scratch, now we’ve just got to deal with the damage side of it,” he said.
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In the hours after, Turner turned to Facebook to try to find the trio and vent his frustrations.
He posted to his followers “their lifting technique could do with some work… especially to help them not put weights through all the plaster walls in my gym”.
Turner managed to track down the three teenagers to a service station and spoke to them before providing their details to police.
He said anyone contemplating doing something similar should know they’re going to get caught.
“Go talk to the boys who did this last night, I found them in four hours,” he said.
“It’s not going to happen again and if it does we’ll find ya.”
Police have charged a 14-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy each with one charge of entering a premises and committing an indictable offence.
The third teenager police claim was responsible remains on the run.
