“Won’t be tolerated”: Gold Coast Police crack down after motorcycle event results in burnouts, wheelies and damage

Gold Coast police have slammed the conduct of motorcycle enthusiasts after a community sporting club was allegedly damaged during an organised event.

Gold Coast police have slammed the conduct of motorcycle enthusiasts after a community sporting club was allegedly damaged during an organised event.

Police say they are conducting further investigations into the Gold Coast Bike Life event at Miami on Saturday, which attracted a group of about 60 people.

Advertised on social media, members originally met at Pizzey Park, however once a police presence was noticed they later moved a couple of hundred metres to the Bond Pirates Rugby Union Club.

A video posted to social media showed a group of youths performing burnouts and wheelies on the fields, digging up the grass and causing damage to the fields.

Acting Superintendent Scott Knowles said on Monday that “inappropriate behaviour” had occurred at similar events interstate.

The group of riders met up at Pizzey Park before moving to the Bond Pirates Rugby Union Club where they proceeded to do burnouts and wheelies. Picture: 7 News

“Police have attempted to enter the event and actually start to engage with the people but were confronted by a number of the other attendees at the event (and) they’ve retreated. However, we do have CCTV... plus in car camera footage that will form the basis of our investigations going forward,” he said.

“There was some damage done to Pizzey Park where it was held, motorcycles were doing burnouts, carried on like that, and did cause some damage to the parklands there and left shortly after the the confrontation with police.”

Group members boasted to social as they made their way through southern Gold Coast suburbs to a planned meet up at Pizzey Park. Picture: Supplied

Police have spoken with several organisers of the event to help identify the group of 10 to 15 riders who were behaving inappropriately.

Acting Supt Knowles said the dangerous behaviour that has been flaunted on social media would not be tolerated.

“We do have some legislation around hooning events and making those public, that will be a reach out to our social media colleagues to try and either have that footage removed or used as the basis of evidence, but this sort of behaviour won’t be tolerated. You can understand that the next time this occurs, we’ll certainly have a lot more police there and we’ll be dealing with it a lot differently.”

The group of riders met up at Pizzey Park before moving to the Bond Pirates Rugby Union Club where they proceeded to do burnouts and wheelies. Picture: 7 News

As a result from this behaviour, a police spokesperson confirmed damage did occur at Bond Pirates Rugby, however police have received no formal complaint of the damage at this time.

No police were injured during confrontations.