A street musician in Georgia recently shared a video that shows a random passerby smash his piano and appear to take his money. In the video shared on TikTok, a performer named Andrew can be seen playing piano and singing on the sidewalk in Athens, Georgia.
The video shows a woman approach him, touch his piano keys, and walk away. Andrew explained that these kinds of occurrences are not unusual for a street performer, but what happened later really surprised him.
The video shows the woman and her friends return to the area later. At that time, the woman can be seen smashing the performer's keyboard to the point that it crashes to the ground, forcing him to stop playing mid-song. She also can be seen reaching down into the performer's tip money and appear to take it.
Social media users were not impressed, and identified the woman as Shauntae Heard, according to TMZ. Shauntae also apologized on social media before her accounts were removed, the Daily Mail reported.
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"I have took accountability for my actions," the woman reportedly wrote. "I know it was wrong and ignorant of me but please keep my family out of it. Y'all problem is with me not my family you don't get anything out of texting them or me and I have already apologize to the person we have talk. Everything is good no I didn't steal any money and I didn't break the piano I'm a human just like you all."
Shauntae also said that she spoke to Andrew and apologized to him, and that he accepted her apology.
"l've seen worse downtown this is nothing compared to what I did and I know it's not right," she wrote. "The person I apologize to accepted my apology and we had a whole good conversation on the phone and thats all that matters you people are nasty the way y'all are texting me and my family and making fake pages y'all don't get nothing out of that y'all stay blessed."
What really surprised Andrew and people on social media was the way the woman's friends appeared to laugh in the background.
"I would be so embarrassed if my friend did that," one person wrote. "That would be enough to end a friendship over for me."
The woman could be heard saying "sorry" before reaching into the tip bucket to allegedly take money from Andrew. "Do you want to hit about it?" One of her friends said after the woman slammed the piano and walked away. Andrew appeared to remain fairly calm.
"You stayed SO calm, my anger could never," one person wrote to Andrew on TikTok.
Many expressed their sympathy in the comments. One user wrote, "I'm so sorry you had to go through that but your talent still shines through."
One person who witnessed what happened appeared to give Andrew money to make up for the money he lost, and others attempted to help and asked if he was OK.
"Okay but the guy who literally gave you all his money from his wallet BLESS HIM," one person wrote in a comment on TikTok.
"To the guy and the two ladies that helped, you guys are the MVPs," one person wrote. "Thanks for showing us compassion."
