Aboriginal man tells street performer to pay him RENT despite it being a public space

An angry indigenous man ordered a street performer to ‘pay the rent’ because he was doing card tricks ‘in my country’.

Sydney man Brock was delivering prank tarot card readings to strangers on the public sidewalk of King Street when the Aboriginal man approached him.

‘Hey bruz, you’re in my country here. You have to pay the rent,” the Aboriginal man is heard shouting in the TikTok video Brock recorded.

The street performer tried to give the man a coin, but this seemed to make him even more angry.

Brock’s diplomacy was in vain, as the native ordered him to leave the public space in which he had every right to be.

‘Nah, don’t do this shit,’ he said.

Embarrassed, Brock offered the man a free tarot reading.

‘I don’t believe in that shit. You are in my country here. That’s breaking our rules.

Brock did his best to defuse the situation and again offered a gift.

‘Sir, I’m feeling a lot of anger right now, would you like me to give you a free card reading?’

But it was in vain, since the indigenous man ordered him to leave.

‘Not. Why don’t you go, just go?

“I understand that you had a bad day today,” Brock replied.

‘Not. I haven’t had a bad day. You’re on our land and you’re doing shit like this with your tarot and whatever.

The indigenous man claimed that using tarot cards in public violated traditional law

“I don’t want to disrespect your culture or anything, so I’m leaving,” Brock said, finally conceding defeat.

He told Daily Mail Australia that he was not offended by the order to “pay rent” for using a public space.

“It was just an awkward moment,” he said.

“But as soon as he could see that I was ready to go, things got better.”