Shocking moment drunk, male 'Karen' breaks young boy's fishing rod (2024)

A middle-aged man has been labelled a 'Karen' after he was filmed breaking a teenager's $200 fishing rod and yelling at him to leave a private lake in a now-viral TikTok.

The clip which was shared by an account namedFishnShi shows the dazed man hurriedly approaching both teens at the corner of a lake in Admiral's Landing, Tennessee.

The silver-haired man - who users speculated was drunk - can be heard screaming that the young adults are trespassing on private property and urging them to 'get out of here'.

While he continues to shout and force the teenagers to leave, they are heard calmly responding: 'We are waiting for the police to arrive.'

The clip, titled 'Drunk Karen breaks kids' $200 rod,' has been viewed more than 10 million times. The term 'Karen' is usually used to refer to women who behave in an entitled or aggressive manner.

The unhappy man can be seen pushing the scared boy with his body and threatening to throw his phone into the lake while the other records his behavior.

As soon as he realizes that the other youngster is capturing the incident on his phone, he shouts: 'Get out of here. How about I take that phone and put it in the lake?'

But the voiceover quickly tells him that he would press charges of assault if the older man attempted to harm any one of them.

Despite being told that the boys would file a police report against him, the drunk man grabs the $200 St Croix fishing rod from the gray t-shirt wearing teen and breaks it into two.

He also goes on to tell them he 'would prosecute' and that they are going to have to 'pay all kinds of money because they are being a d***'.

The video has been flooded with support from other viewers.

One wrote: 'So that's not a private lake. the state owns the water...so as long as you're in the water and possibly the bank he can't say anything. I need part 2!'

Another quipped: 'that man is out of control.'

A third noted the fear in the teenager's face and said: 'Lil bro was scared'.

Some viewers also suggested that the youngsters share where they were fishing so that they too could visit.

'Where is this lake? I kinda want to go fishing now,' a user asked.

The user has yet to clarify which lake they were at and if the police arrived at the scene.

It comes days after another 'Karen' was caught on camera calling a teenager a 'b****' over a $6 refund.

A young girl was at the cash register when the crushed-ice 'Karen' arrived complaining about how she had prepaid $6 so her daughter could come by at a later time to pick up a snow cone.

The woman, dressed in a floral shirt and sunglasses, said her daughter wasn't given the shaved ice treat even though she claimed her mom had already paid in advance for it.

Despite some initial confusion, the customer did in fact get her $6 back, but then decides to return and curse out of one of the employees.

The caption of the TikTok video claims that there was a shift change, which meant the two girls working at the stand when the daughter came by weren't aware of this arrangement the woman had made.

Kyle Ewald,the owner of Keke's Snow Balls, told DailyMail.com he posted the video to push the narrative that customers 'need to treat teenagers who are working in businesses like this with...respect no matter what.'