WATCH: Vancouver busker scorns disruptive child during performance

An incident between a Vancouver busker and a young audience member is raising questions about the performer’s actions.

Last Sunday afternoon, Daniel Zindler, who has been busking for 10 years, was performing a balancing act at Robson Square when a child came out of the crowd and allegedly tried to move a cylinder that Zindler was balancing on, causing some people in the audience to gasp. But Zindler managed to keep his balance and did not stop the performance.

After the child returned back into the crowd, Zindler quipped to the adults believed to be his parents, “F*** man, be a parent, hey?”

He can be heard saying to the child, “You need to learn a lesson. That was not cool, yeah? Do you apologize?”

Finally, he adds, “Some people should really use a condom. I am sorry. That was uncalled for. You need to watch your kid.”

(Courtesy: Motorcycles Vancouver, YouTube)

The video of the interaction has more than 600,000 views on YouTube and is sparking a heated discussion online.

Zindler says he has never had an encounter like this before.

Zindler says he could have easily hit his head or rolled his ankle had he fallen from that height.

“What I was most angry about was not necessarily the child’s actions, but the lack of response from the parents,” he says.

He says they left by the time he was finished his act and there was no verbal interaction outside the show, although Zindler asked the boy for an apology during the incident.

Zindler say he does not think his comments were out of line, except for using coarse language. “I would not swear. It is a family show. It is not what I do,” he says.

As far as his ‘condom comment,’ Zindler says he does not think that it was something that was not family-friendly.

“I do a lot of hidden comedy that is not vulgar, but it is still something that parents would get, but kids would not get. I understand that some parents could have been insulted by that comment. But I don’t think it was offensive to any child because they would not understand the remark.”

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