Recently surfaced surveillance footage captures a harrowing scene in which a teenager hurls a 33-pound chair from the top floor railing of a bustling shopping mall, narrowly avoiding pedestrians below.
This reckless incident took place at the Westfield shopping center in Stratford, East London, in March of last year. With the teenagers involved now having faced legal consequences, the newly released CCTV footage reveals just how perilously close the chair came to hitting unsuspecting shoppers, as reported by SWNS.
The video shows the 16-year-old lifting a round, dark-blue chair and tossing it over the railing, all while his 15-year-old friend records the dangerous stunt.
At the time, this shocking video quickly gained traction on social media with the caption, “no way bro almost killed someone.”
In the chilling footage, a group of mall-goers strolls along, blissfully unaware of the potential hazard looming above them.
Moments later, the chair crashes onto the tiled floor, narrowly missing the oblivious pedestrians, providing a stark reminder of how close the situation came to tragedy.
Other passersby can be seen freezing in fear after the couch landed nearby, before hurrying off in a different direction.
The teen and his buddy were nabbed by police soon after.
Last September, the 16-year-old teen who chucked the chair over the railing was slapped with a $55 fine and a 8-month Detention and Training Order, where he’ll serve half his sentence in a secure training facility.
The 15-year-old boy was hit with a $331 fine and a 12-month referral order, a community service sentence for young, first-time offenders on May 20.
Both teens pleaded guilty to criminal damage and recklessly causing a public nuisance.
