Gold Coast crime: Bouncer Christian Perez disgusted by rubberneckers filming bloody Surfers Paradise brawl

A Gold Coast bouncer dubbed ‘Caribbean Thor’ has been hailed a hero after stopping a violent teen brawl in Surfers Paradise - but he is furious everyone else stood by and filmed it.

A GOLD COAST bouncer dubbed ‘Caribbean Thor’ who heroically stepped in to stop a violent Surfers Paradise brawl has lambasted rubbernecks for standing back filming it.

Christian Perez, 31, said the aftermath of the attack which left one man hospitalised looked similar to the bloody scene from the classic horror film Carrie.

At 8:30pm Saturday night at least four teens were involved in an altercation that left one young man so bloody he was unrecognisable according to those looking on.

Bouncer Christian Perez was disgusted by the number of people filming a brutal bashing in Surfers. Photo: Scott Powick News Corp

Despite the quick efforts of Mr Perez, the young man was transported by ambulance with facial injuries.

Mr Perez said the attack would have stopped sooner if those watching and filming the fight took action.

He was on his way to work when he saw the fight on the corner of Orchid and Cavill Ave.

He posted online: “One kid was on the ground being bashed by three. Everyone was just standing around filming and doing nothing about it.

“I understand people don’t want to risk getting hurt or stabbed but c’mon.”

He told the Bulletin: “It was horrible, he was completely covered in blood. Like the scene from Carrie where there is pigs blood everywhere, it was just like that but the kid’s blood,” Mr Perez said of the incident.

Christian Perez said one “kid” was being bashed by another three until he stepped in. Photo: Scott Powick News Corp

“I saw it ahead, three of them were on the other one bashing him, there were so many people around, I thought surely someone would stop it by the time I got there,” Mr Perez said.

“But everyone was there just filming it. I ran towards them and chucked bike to the side and yelled at them to stop.

“That was enough, I didn’t even have to touch them. I wondered if they would have stopped sooner if someone else said something.

“I think as a society we also need to do a bit more in these situations, we can’t all stand around filming.
“I don’t expect a 50-year-old woman to step in by any means but there were enough healthy people just to call out or say something.

Bouncer Christian Perez said the bashing stopped when he yelled at the group. Photo: Scott Powick News Corp

“I am a dad, I thought of my kid. If my kid got in a fight like that I would like someone to stop it.

“I see online people say we should have just let it go because there might have been a robbery or something, but I don’t care what they had done, no one deserved that.

“They are still kids.”

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He received plenty of online support for his post, with comments including “we need people like you, good one” and “way to go … even just using words to stop it, not just stand there and film it – people these days”.

Police say two men were taken into custody that evening but no charges had been laid as complaints were not forthcoming.

The incident follows a number of high-profile assaults in the same precinct just weeks earlier, including the fatal stabbing of 27-year-old Raymond Harris at the same spot.