A Queensland teenager says he was "shocked" to be confronted by a "rude" woman who allegedly bit off his fishing line on a Sunshine Coast beach.
Ocean Barker, 13, was at his regular spot on Yaroomba beach near Point Arkwright on December 14, when the woman approached him.
"She just came up to my line and just put her teeth in it ... then bit it off," Ocean said.
"She was probably about a metre-and-a-half away from me ... smiling and laughing in my face."
He said the woman then walked away — without saying a word.
"I was shocked ... there were these two other girls down here and they were like, 'What the hell just happened? Are you OK?'," he said.
Ocean said the incident caused him to lose a small bait fish, along with his hook, line and sinker.
He said he was not standing in the woman's way, and there was enough room to walk around him on the beach.
The teenager immediately called his father and told him what happened.
Later, when his mother Vanessa Buitenhuis learned of the incident, she turned to social media to find the woman in the hope she would apologise for her actions.
"I felt sad for him [Ocean] because he's always so happy," Ms Buitenhuis said.
"He's always doing really good things, he's helping people ... and we have such a great little community around here and everyone looks out for him."
Since posting about the encounter, Ms Buitenhuis said four people had contacted her.
"Two people actually sent me a photo and said, 'Is this the lady?' ... then I showed Ocean and he said, 'Yep, that's her'," Ms Buitenhuis said.
She said she had considered going to the police but decided not to pursue the matter any further.
Might have been a 'bad day'
Ocean said the experience had not deterred him from enjoying fishing and helping the community.
The 13-year-old regularly donated the fish he caught to friends and neighbours in need and had been collecting cans to raise money for the homeless.
"He's collected over 20,000 [cans] in the last two years ... he's making Christmas hampers for the homeless people living in their cars at Yaroomba," Ms Buitenhuis said.
Ocean said he enjoyed helping others and wished he had handled the situation with the woman differently.
"She was a very mean lady ... [but] I should have walked up to her and said, 'Excuse me, do you need a hug?'" he said.
"She might have just been having a rough or bad day, or some rough times."
Ms Buitenhuis added that if she saw the woman whom she suspected confronted her son, she would not approach her "out of respect for Ocean because he doesn't like negative experiences".
"Maybe next time she should stop and just have a chat because he actually might make her feel a whole lot better," she said.
