@Pink I'm ready with my Bomb. Time to blow up #RodLaverArena. Bitch. Hold on a second ... Teen's troublesome tweet was ill thought-out, but not threatening, his father says. Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones The boy said staff found him in the crowd by using his Twitter profile picture. ‘‘They just came up to me and showed a photo and said ‘is this you?’,’’ he told the Seven Network. ‘‘I said yeah, because it was my face, and suddenly they just turned me around and grabbed my hands and forced me out the back.’’

The boy said the tweet was an innocent reference to Pink’s song Timebomb. ‘‘It was meant to be about drop the effects, the music, everything - just drop it all.’’ The boy's father, David King, told radio station 3AW radio on Monday that security had seriously overreacted to what was an innocent - if ill thought-out - message of teenage enthusiasm. “When he wrote that, he didn't have time to put 'Timebomb', you know,” he said. Mr King - who lives in Warrnambool and had to make the three-hour drive to Melbourne to collect his son - said police were prepared to be more lenient when they realised the boy was not, in fact, a terrorist.

But at the arena's urging, the boy was arrested and charged with being a public nuisance. “The policeman said to me, 'if it was up to me, I would have booted him in the backside and said go home'.” “But they demanded (he) be arrested.” It is understood security at the concert were able to locate the boy in the 12,000-strong crowd by using his Twitter profile photo.

A spokeswoman for the Melbourne and Olympic Park venue said they had an obligation to ensure the safety of guests and performers. "We can't risk not taking matters like this seriously," she said. "From our point of view, we have systems in place to monitor social media to ensure the safety and security of the venue, of guests and performers. "Our security staff acted to ensure the area was secure and handed the matter over to the police." A witness in the stadium said up to 20 security personel approached the teenager. She said they "weren't mucking around".

The witness said she and a group of friends watched as the teenager was escorted from the arena with his hands held behind his back. "We had no idea what was going on. The concert hadn't even started," the witness said. Loading "We were just thinking 'gee what has this kid done'." with The Standard, AAP

