Worker fired after being exposed in viral sprinkler video: ‘He was dishonest’

He calls it “instant karma”

Bruce Kerr has a unsocial measurement of punishing group who illegally parkland connected his business’s driveway.

The 58-year-old proprietor of Kerr Solutions IT, successful Rockhampton, Queensland, has rigged a sprinkler strategy to automatically blast drivers pinch h2o erstwhile they parkland successful nan driveway -footage of which is watched by millions connected his viral ‘Rockhampton Chaos’ TikTok page.

“When nan sprinkler comes connected and smacks them successful nan face, you’re conscionable thinking, good that’s justice, that’s karma being served,” Kerr told news.com.au.

But erstwhile he first began posting footage of drivers getting soaked online, he ne'er imagined conscionable really celebrated it would become, nor that it would lead to a worker losing his job.

Like galore others earlier him, nan worker had parked connected nan driveway belonging to Kerr Solutions IT to sojourn nan tobacconist adjacent doorway connected a December weekday past year.

According to Kerr, nan worker had told his leader he was astatine activity connected a mining tract astatine nan time.

Camera footage shows nan worker pulling up into nan driveway and stepping retired of nan institution motortruck wearing a brace of shorts and nary shirt.

Just moments aft opening nan ute door, he was met pinch a pitchy of water, sending him quickly scurrying backmost wrong nan car.

Kerr shared nan video connected TikTok for 4 and a half cardinal people, including nan worker’s boss, to see.

“He was claiming connected his clip sheets that he was retired westbound working, erstwhile successful truth he was successful municipality buying smokes and because nan clip day stamp connected nan cameras and because it went viral connected TikTok, his leader sewage to spot that he was really successful Rockhampton,” said Kerr.

Kerr said nan leader later reached retired to him to apologize connected his worker’s behalf and show him he had fired him.

“He wanted to apologize for his employee’s capacity or, uh, deficiency of performance, I conjecture you’d say,” he joked.

“He said that he had already been fto spell because he received a fewer different calls astir his bad driving … and decided that moreover though apparently he was a bully worker, he was dishonest and he conscionable wasn’t keeping up a bully image for nan company.”

It’s conscionable 1 of nan galore memorable moments that person been captured connected video since Kerr installed nan sprinkler strategy 2 years ago.

‘Sick of it’

The 58-year-old came up pinch nan thought aft a tobacconist moved into nan shop adjacent doorway on engaged Musgrave Street.

Before long, up to 20 group per time would parkland connected his driveway, blocking Kerr’s unit from accessing his car park, contempt clear signs informing them not to parkland successful nan area.

“These Muppets deliberation nan world revolves astir them and they conscionable decided to parkland location immoderate aged time, moreover though location are signs up saying do not parkland there,” he said.

“And often because they’re smokers, they often person their windows down and they conscionable locomotion disconnected from their car to spell walk their 5 minutes astatine nan fume shop. I conscionable sewage perfectly sick of it.”

Kerr – whose business has been servicing Rockhampton for 29 years and had been astatine its existent location for nan past decade – said location would beryllium plentifulness of kerbside parks disposable connected Musgrave Street but customers would still take to parkland connected his driveway.

“There’s besides plentifulness disposable further down nan street, but they don’t want to locomotion 50 to 80 metres. They want to parkland 10 metres distant from nan stall beforehand they’re going to, which intends parking successful our driveway.”

On apical of nan headache to Kerr and his staff, drivers were creating a threat to themselves and others erstwhile they reversed retired onto Musgrave Street, he explained.

“We’ve had plentifulness of tyre screechers, plentifulness of horns and beeping and everything.

“It’s a wonderment that personification hasn’t been wiped out.”

But erstwhile Kerr tried to return nan rumor to nan assembly aliases nonstop licence sheet numbers and video footage to police, he said nan rumor “fell done nan cracks” arsenic it was extracurricular either jurisdiction.

“It’s not a assembly road, it’s really a main roadworthy … and nan constabulary besides opportunity that it’s a main roadworthy and comes nether national jurisdiction.
“It’s not for illustration nan feds are going to thrust up from Brisbane to commencement handing retired tickets aliases what person you for group parking there.”

Fed up, Kerr, – who studied mechanical engineering and business trading astatine university, and spent 30 years surviving connected a workplace – drew connected his unsocial expertise to trade an automatic sprinkler strategy pinch his staff.

“It was successful nan readying (stage) for astir apt six months earlier it eventuated because I wanted to cheque connected nan legalities of it … we wanted to cognize nan champion measurement to power it and whether it (should be) wholly automatic aliases person a manual override.”

Using piping, sensors, cameras, and a relationship to nan town’s h2o supply, they created nan strategy which has gone viral today.

“We’re storing nan h2o successful a unit alloy that has a 400L capacity astatine a very precocious unit because of a multistage pump, and past we’ve sewage a full heap of solenoids and different jets and valves,” he explained.

When a personification aliases conveyance triggers nan mobility sensors, they are automatically sprayed pinch a pitchy of water.

“If a driver happens to person nan windows down, it’s astir apt going to put a batch of h2o done that opening very quickly.”

Since its installation successful precocious 2023, nan sprinkler strategy has been a success, pinch only 2 aliases 3 cars parking successful nan driveway and getting blasted pinch h2o per day.

Some of them get shared connected Kerr’s TikTok page. And group are loving it.

“Some group connected TikTok are saying ‘I unrecorded for these movies’ and ‘this is nan champion point connected TikTok’ and now ‘that I recovered this it’s nan only point I watch’ and ‘when tin you put connected much movies’ and we want more’,” said Kerr.

Kerr said astir group who get sprayed respond positively, fixed nan circumstances.

“Some group who get deed pinch nan h2o person a laughter and they cognize that they’ve been Muppets and they shouldn’t person parked location successful nan first place.”

But not everyone is arsenic good-humoured astir it.

One personification vandalized nan strategy and tried to propulsion it disconnected nan wall, earlier yet being tracked down by constabulary and fined. Others person thrown rocks aliases travel successful to verbally maltreatment staff.

For those who do want to travel into nan shop to “carry connected for illustration pork chops”, Kerr has a solution for that too.

“We’ve sewage nan horn of Gondor,” he explained, a reference to a powerful horn successful The Lord of nan Rings.

“We’ll springiness them a blast of that. It’s that large that it usually disorients them and they hide what they moreover came present for,” he added, joking his business tin “fix a batch of problems.”

‘Disgusting’ problem

Aside from forbidden parkers, there’s different rumor he and his squad are moving to lick – members of nan nationalist are urinating successful nan driveway’s alcove successful wide daylight.

“Along Musgrave Street present successful North Rocky, each nan shop fronts are built retired to nan aforesaid level, but this is simply a small alcove that you tin locomotion into that’s backmost from nan shop front, truthful a batch of group deliberation it’s conscionable a awesome spot to relieve themselves, which is conscionable disgusting.”

Kerr said he and his squad are moving connected an upgrade to nan strategy to reside nan problem but he did not wish to divulge specifications conscionable yet.

He did reassure fans, however, that location would beryllium videos connected TikTok erstwhile nan upgrade is successful place.

In nan meantime, nan sprinkler strategy continues to amass attraction some online and offline, becoming a benignant of tourer attraction for nan community.

“There’s a batch of section kids who situation it pinch their scooter aliases their push motorcycle and effort and dart successful and person nosy pinch it … So we deed nan manual (override) and springiness it a squirt and they conscionable squeal and everyone laughs and they conscionable deliberation it’s astir apt nan champion nosy successful nan world.”

“There will beryllium visitors that move up and return photos of it connected nan measurement past arsenic good … It’s go rather a nosy thing.”

Kerr moreover has group from each complete nan state and successful nan US scope retired to him for proposal connected really to instal a sprinkler strategy for their ain businesses to reside akin issues.

“There’s a feline who rang maine nan different time from down successful Melbourne because they’ve sewage a akin problem astatine a retention installation down location and they wanted to cognize really to put it each together.”

“I request to commencement trading plans to nan strategy because location seems to beryllium rather a request for it successful different areas.”

For now, if drivers proceed to parkland successful nan driveway, Kerr has a elemental message:

“Come parkland present and bull a squirt, if that’s what they want to do. We’ve sewage nan solution to their problem,” he said pinch a laugh.