A Swedish backpacker has dared police to fine her $1200 AUD ($780 USD) after she decided to flout the coronavirus lockdown in Australia.
Linn Clark from Sweden posted a video of herself on a beach, complaining that she couldn't catch some rays in peace because there was a chance that she might get arrested.
Watch the video below:"This is where we're at right now in Australia, I have to have a look around me when I'm sunbathing so there's no cops arresting me on the Gold Coast," she said.
"Arrest me, for sunbathing? That's… what the… what?"
Clark put a banner over the video which read: "Give me a fine 1200 Auddollar."
She also captioned the video with a number of hashtags relating to the coronavirus pandemic including "#fineme".
However, while Clark might have been upset by the restrictions caused by the pandemic, people on TikTok were less sympathetic to her plight, and she was accused of not "taking this pandemic seriously".
"If everybody did it the beach would be packed. Inconsiderate... maybe go home if you don't take this [seriously]. We are and look at our statistics," one wrote.
A second remarked: "Yeah it's cos of the pandemic it not supposed to leave your house except for essential activities," another said.
Meanwhile, a third added: "extreme times, extreme measures."
In an interview with news.com.au, Clark defended her video, saying that she simply "wanted to live my life as I usually do."
"I did not want police to fine me or arrest me, it was not anything like that," she said. "Also every time I have been to the beach it's been open still, security and police looking around just to see so that no one was more than two and two.
"I went to the beach because I wanted to live my life as I usually do here in Gold Coast, so when Surfers closed I went to Burleigh and when it opened again I went back."
This story comes as footage emerged of a woman being arrested in Spain for sunbathing during the pandemic.
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