Wild moment: Karen’s mother clashes with professional scooter rider after he asks parents with small children to leave the skate park in Tauranga, New Zealand

A dispute between an adult scooter rider and a parent looking after young children over who can use the park has sparked a debate online.

Scooter Brad, a “retired” YouTuber who is “chasing his Olympic dream, scooter style,” said he went to the Gordon Spratt Reserve Skate Park outside Tauranga on New Zealand’s North Island around 9:30 a.m. and found it busy before returning an hour later.

In the footage, he is seen asking the group of more than a dozen parents and young children if they could “all just hop out of the park” because he was about to “speed through,” after which a mother he referred to as “Karen” told him to “wait his turn.”

“Hey team, just a heads up, I’m going to race through here super fast in 15 minutes if you could all jump off the obstacles,” he said in the video.

Scooter Brad told Daily Mail Australia that he does not receive any money from social media platforms and makes videos out of love for the sport, which is experiencing a surge in popularity and calls for an Olympic participation following skateboarding successes in Tokyo and Paris.

“Do you want us to move? You told me that two weeks ago in the other park,” the woman replied.

“These children were here before you, so you can sit and wait for them to leave… They are under five and it’s their turn now.”

In the caption of the video, he explained that he believes “kids are welcome to ride at skate parks, but they shouldn’t run, play, slide and snack around the track” as they had been doing so far.

The argument continued as the professional skater repeatedly swore in front of the children and then raced through the park, performing jumps, somersaults and rail slides just inches past the parents and toddlers, whereupon the woman called the police.

The woman explained to him that she was paying taxes and that the skate park was a public place that she and her children were entitled to use just as he was.

He responded by pointing to a sign that said younger children were “encouraged to use the pump track or main skate park at quieter times of the day.”

However, the sign also says: “The skate park is for everyone” and “Be cool and wait your turn”.

At some point the woman told him to find a job.

“That’s my damn job,” Scooter Brad replied.

The woman also warned him that there would be trouble if he hit a child with his scooter, to which he countered: “If I hit someone, I have warned you many times.”

When the police officer arrived, Scooter explained to Brad that he often encountered such situations and that he had politely asked the children to move aside for their own safety because his handlebars were about the same height as their heads.

The officer agreed that the children could be “unpredictable” as they moved through the skate park and told him he had spoken to the parent group and they would be leaving soon anyway.

YouTuber Scooter Brad said he often finds himself in such situations and asked the children to leave the park for their own safety.

The woman also had a problem with the scooter rider filming, but this is allowed in public skate parks and sports fields where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.

Many commentators sided with Scooter Brad.

“These kids were sitting all over the park with bags and scooters, making it dangerous for everyone present,” one said.

“They can of course use the park, but they are not allowed to sit on obstacles,” added another.

“It’s like eating lunch in the middle of a basketball court when people come to use it and say it’s public,” said a third.

“Arrogant people… there’s a huge park for little kids nearby that’s for proper scooter and skateboard riders,” added a fourth.

However, some also sided with the parents and argued that the children had a right to use the facility.

“I have to agree with the lady, let the children play. Remember when you were eight and the adults stopped you from having fun?”

“What is an adult doing in a skate park on a Monday morning?” said another.

“You edited out the part where you stand in one spot, shouting curses and making two kids cry? That video was posted last night,” said a third.