A woman has shared doorbell footage of the disgusting moment a man vomits on her gate before his mates return to take pictures of the ugly scene and laugh at him. A young man, returning from a night out, threw up onto a grandmother’s front gate after a big night out.
Nicki Oliver, a resident of Helston, Cornwall, decided to publicly shame the group of drunk lads into cleaning up their mess. She posted doorbell camera footage of the previous night’s escapades on the public Facebook page for Helston. Initially, she simply posted the minute-long video with the caption: “Could these lads return to clean up your mess.”
However, after seeing the diverse range of comments the video, Nicki felt compelled to explain her decision to expose the midnight revellers, hoping they might take responsibility and apologise once sober, reports Cornwall Live.
She commented: “Thank you to everyone who has viewed and commented on my post. It’s interesting to read different opinions on this. Now it’s for me to comment.
“Yes, we have all been young and done silly things similar to that and I have raised four teenagers. These culprits are not kids and are very proud of themselves. The fact that this man chose to cross the road and do this over my gate rather than do it in the channel where it would be washed away just shows disrespect.
“I’ve been young too. I brought up four kids. But it’s the comments that have come back that I found disrespectful.”
A video dated December 28 at a quarter past midnight captures a high-definition moment when a young man in a dark hoody adorned with white horizontal stripes staggers from the centre of the road towards Nicki’s home. In the footage, he’s visibly struggling and proceeds to vomit up his dinner and drinks before returning to his group.
You can hear one of his friends call out: “Where’s Dan gone?”. Dan then emerges from behind a white van parked in front of Nicki’s gate and rejoins the others, having spewed up.
Concerned, they check on him, eliciting a “Maybe” response from Dan when asked if he’s alright. On suspecting that he might have been sick, a friend circles the van to inspect Dan’s ‘pavement art’.
The bunch quickly regroups, then the lads whip out their smartphones for illumination, and laughter bubbles over as they remark on Dan’s meal now decorating Nicki’s doorstep. The jovial scene continues with singing and teasing before one individual snapshots the regurgitated remnants and the party moves on.
Nicki, 58, a supermarket worker, remarked that the messy incident unfolded near Helston police station. She said: “These lads made sure they got sick before the police station or I’m sure it would have been a different matter. But as they threw up on my gate and not the police station, they got away with it.
“I left the sick there in the hope that when those lads got over their hangovers they’d own up and apologise, or even better, come with a bucket and clean up the mess. I’d hoped they’d de-shame themselves. But nothing.”
Social media reactions to Nicki’s post varied widely, from outright laughter to nods of support for Nicki. There has also been some empathy for the boys involved, with a few shrugging it off as the harmless aftermath of a night out.
One social media user light-heartedly commented: “It could’ve been worse. Luckily he didn’t have a vindaloo.” Another teased the unfortunate soul for not handling his drink well, posting: “I was crying when that chap said he’s only had four pints.”
Another found humour in the situation, adding how the video brightened their day. Another jabbed at commenters trivialising the act of vomiting in the street as a sign of revelry, saying: “The amount of people complaining about someone being annoyed about some little s****e throwing up outside her front gate and then his mates joking and taking a pic of it more than the little s****e and his mates, is probably why Helston is in the mess it is.”
Meanwhile, one defence came through in a comment: “Oh God, it’s only a bit of puke! What was he supposed to do? Scoop it up and take it with him? The rain will get rid of it.”
Bringing a touch of nostalgic humour to the discussion, one person remarked: “Just occasionally, Betamax is more desirable than 4K HD.”
In a follow-up post on Facebook, Nicki wrote: “To the very select few keyboard warriors, may I ask, if it was your grandmother’s property, is that what you would be saying to her face? I’m a grandmother, so please I invite you, rather than type behind a keyboard, to come and walk through the chunky chicken vomit and tell me how you feel about about it all.”
Nicki also mentioned that she has nicknamed the mess left by Dan as ‘chunky chicken’, expressing her wish that he hadn’t shared his dinner all over her gate for everyone to see.
She stated: “It’s all over my gate. I wonder if it’s some of the customers I serve in the supermarket. I’m used to people not always being nice and you get used to it. But this is not nice. I’m sure any of the people who have commented on Facebook or the people who were sick would have reacted differently if it had happened to their own gran.
“But instead of owning up and apologising, which would have been the end of the matter, they find it funny. I don’t.”