A TEENAGER has been arrested for tweeting "time to blow up Rod Laver Arena" during Pink's concert in Melbourne last night.

The full tweet read: "@Pink I'm ready with my Bomb. Time to blow up #RodLaverArena. B*tch." Security was able to find the 16-year-old in a crowd of 12,000 after he sent the tweet with his profile picture using the official Rod Laver Arena hashtag. The tweet referred to Pink's song Timebomb and wasn't sinister, his father told 3AW radio this morning. "When he wrote that, he didn't have time to put 'Timebomb', you know," he said. He said staff searched the crowd and approached his son and asked him "Is this you?" "And he said 'yes', and then they dragged him to security and called the police," he said. "He was scared. He's only a sixteen-year-old kid." He said his son facing criminal charges, including public nuisance, was excessive. "The policeman said to me, 'if it was up to me, I would have booted him in the backside and said go home'," he told 3AW. "But they demanded he be arrested." 'Down to Earth': Cameron Adams reviews the Pink concert Pictures: Action from Pink's Melbourne show