Alice Coster: TikTok GoBoat prankster crying over spilt milk

To the mollycoddled “minor” moaning about how he could be expelled from school after blowback to his GoBoat prank — you should have thought about that before you did it.

Don’t go crying about spilt milk.

Honestly, the teen prankster who chucked milk over a group of GoBoat passengers enjoying a weekend cruise down the Yarra should cop more than just a veiled expelled-from-school threat.

If a cruise down our poo-brown Yarra wasn’t bad enough, the poor paying boaters couldn’t even tuck into their charcuterie board, after the teen doused them in dairy in the hope it might go viral on social media.

He got his wish, with the video amassing more than 13 million views.

But the Melbourne teen with the username ‘giddynokiddy’ is now sooking up, whingeing he is “just a kid” and posting “my school has caught me and I am facing expulsion.

“Can’t believe you would do this to (a) minor,” he wrote.

These kids have been milking the mollycoddled teat for too long.

If a cruise down our poo-brown Yarra wasn’t bad enough, these poor GoBoaters had a brat douse them in milk.

It’s the indignant, woe-is-me at being caught that is oh so wrong. But more of that later.

Since when did potentially hurting innocent bystanders and pranking elderly people become cool?

As someone who grew up in the Jackass, pranking era, this was never a thing. Pranksters always showed a modicum of respect shown to others, just not themselves.

In the past few weeks we have seen videos go viral of teens cruelly taunting a Down syndrome woman at Southern Cross Station, to an aged fisherman being pushed off a jetty in Mornington.

It’s all done in the name of social media likes and TikTok clicks.

Not only is it vile and deeply upsetting, it shows a lack of respect by kids growing up in their all about me, me, me, bubbles.

Don’t get me wrong, as a rebellious teen there was plenty to get rapped over the knuckles for, and mostly with good reason. A dart behind the dog boxes at school, wagging, teachers being tormented. Tick, tick, tickity tick, straight to the principal’s office.

But the idea of hurting someone else in a pathetic party prank, that was never in the equation.

This isn’t pearl clutching at a ding-dong-ditch either. It’s that this generation thinks there are no consequences to their entitled bad behaviour.

We are breeding a Me-Generation of brats.

Our preened upon princes and princesses think nothing of their actions as they dive deep in their devices and mobile phones.

And before you start finger pointing and deflecting at the lack of discipline at schools, with the ol’ back-in-my-day-we-got-a-good-caning, look a little closer to home.

It’s probably because your Little Lord Fauntleroy has never heard the word “no.”

So to the “minor” who moans he could be expelled after over-reaction to the incident, you should have thought about that before you did it.