LATEST: A social media prankster convicted of negligent boat use and environmental crimes will consult a lawyer for future stunts, a court has heard. Willem Ian Ungermann, 35, from Coolangatta, has amassed some 315,000 followers on Instagram for his outrageous pranks, mostly on Tweed waterways. Over a 2019 prank at a Fingal Head boat ramp which resulted in a car and trailer sinking into the Tweed River, Ungermann pleaded guilty to not reversing a vehicle safely, driving without proper control of a vehicle, negligently disposing of waste causing harm to the environment, polluting waters and contravening a section of the Protection of Environment Operations Act.
LATEST: A social media prankster convicted of negligent boat use and environmental crimes will consult a lawyer for future stunts, a court has heard. Willem Ian Ungermann, 35, from Coolangatta, has amassed some 315,000 followers on Instagram for his outrageous pranks, mostly on Tweed waterways. Over a 2019 prank at a Fingal Head boat ramp which resulted in a car and trailer sinking into the Tweed River, Ungermann pleaded guilty to not reversing a vehicle safely, driving without proper control of a vehicle, negligently disposing of waste causing harm to the environment, polluting waters and contravening a section of the Protection of Environment Operations Act.
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Subscriber only A prankster Gold Coast fisherman facing a $1 million fine and up to seven years jail for his latest outrageous social media stunt has broken his silence to say he s genuinely f -en sorry . Willem Ungermann, known as Willem Powerfish to his 740,000 social media fans, is notorious for his YouTube videos in which he pranks local fishermen while dressed in skin-tight Lycra. But police failed to find his latest prank funny, hitting him with five charges after he sank his boat and car in the Tweed River, allegedly causing a fuel spill that had to be cleaned up by a Hazmat team.