Teen charged after an elderly man was pushed off a pier

Shocking footage has emerged of an elderly man being pushed off a pier in Victoria, forcing him to be rescued by onlookers.

An elderly man has been shoved off a pier late at night while being filmed by a group of teenagers, forcing onlookers to save him from the water.

In shocking video shared on social media, a group of teenagers are seen parading down the pier on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula on Sunday night, egging one another on.

“Go, go, go, go,” one of the boys says when they spot the elderly man standing alone on the pier.

The teens egged each other on as they walked down the pier. Picture: Instagram.

“Go, go, go,” one of them said when they spotted the elderly man on his own. Picture: Instagram.

The man looks up at the group, before one of the boys shoves him off the pier, causing him to fall a fair distance into the dark water below.

The teens burst into laughter.

“Yeah the boys!” one of them shouts, before the clip cuts.

One of the teens pushed the elderly man off the pier. Picture: Instagram.

He reportedly couldn’t swim and was rescued by onlookers. Picture: Instagram.

3AW Melbourne radio host Jacqui Felgate said she had spoken with Victoria Police and the teens were known both to them and locals in the area for “terrorising residents”.

It has been reported the victim was a 79-year-old man who could not swim.

He was not seriously injured and was pulled from the water by onlookers, police said.

A 14-year-old boy from Crib Point, about a half-hour drive from Mornington, was charged on Tuesday with reckless endangerment and unlawful assault.

The teen will appear before a children’s court at a later date.