Matt, The Man Who Swam In A Stranger's Pool After A Jog Sets The Record Straight

Published May 1, 2025, 11:24 PM

Matt, The Man Who Swam In A Stranger's Pool After A Jog Sets The Record Straight

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So this was the headline from earlier in the week.

Keen to cool off, shoes, socks and shirt quickly ditched before its time.

For a dip.

Ching's swimming This man unwinding in a pool that isn't his, In fact, he doesn't know the owner at all.

It was CCTV footage of a bloke taking a dip. He'd been for a run, clearly took the headphones off, shirt off, shoes off and jumped into somebody else's swimming pool. And he's been all over the news the last couple of days and handed himself into the police to say it's me.

I did it on.

The pool guy and he joins us in the studio, Now get a.

Matte, Hello Brisbane.

Now you've already tried to butter us up by wearing a broncho shit. I hope it will go soft on you, but I got to say someone like, as someone who's got a pool at home, it's pretty disgusting. The idea of me coming home and finding a random bloke who'd been for a run and not showered off swimming in my pool. I'd be really pissed at you.

Why did you do it?

Mate?

To be honest, I have no idea. I have no you know, like it was just a silly mistake. And you know, like I wasn't really thinking at the time. I thought it was a model home. I thought it was empty. I didn't think anyone lived there, right, Yeah.

So that's so you were going for a run.

I was going for a.

Jog and then what you were getting hot and you went, there's a pool, simple man.

So you didn't like there would have been furniture and stuff in the house. You wouldn't have You didn't think that there was someone's house.

Well, I guess like you know that in display homes. I know there's furniture in houses in display homes as well, And so to me that wasn't an indicator that someone was living there. I just thought that it was a you know, I just thought it was a display home.

Which, yeah, did you see cameras because that's how you were caught.

There wasn't anyone at home that came out, was there.

Well? I need to be careful. What I need to be careful how much I give away? Why is that? But well, the first time that I went, there was no there was no cameras. Oh you did it twice, so four times?

Yeah, you did it four times.

Yeah, I know. I'm a I'm a grub. I'm a grub.

Well, I mean, I do feel, like I was saying, I feel like when it's your own pool, you feel like it's part of your basically your bath, it's your own water space at home. So you don't have a pool at home.

I don't have a pool at home.

Yeah, okay, but you would find that pretty gross, don't you reckon to find someone else in your pool?

Percent? Yeah, definitely?

What did you think about that?

Because I don't have a pool.

But here's the thing.

If if you realized that cameras had been put in, So the first one or two times you did it and there were no cameras and then you saw cameras, surely that tells you that's not a like a home someone's.

So I didn't know.

I didn't notice the cameras until the last time, right, and then you stopped.

And then so that was the last time that I went, was when I saw the camera's when they got that shot of you.

So I was yeah, I was like, oh then you Yeah, so that's that's the footage where I'm looking up at the camera.

I kind of like, hello world.

So you came forward to the police to say it's me, Like, what but what would you like You haven't been able to speak to the owners of the house. What would you like to say to them?

Look on.

The interview made me feel distraught that I'd made anyone feel unsafe.

Which interview you mean on channels.

Of the owner coming forward and saying that it's weird and you know, it's gross, and that they feel She said she felt like violated. Yeah, you know, unsafe for something along along those lines. And that's completely understandable. You know, everyone's house should be their own sanctuary, should be their own place of privacy.

And I violated that and that's that to me?

Is that made me, you know, I was gutted, you know, because I thought it was an empty house and people can have their opinions and you know and say he knew the whole time.

So you're not doing this for publicity.

I'm one hundred percent not doing this for publicity.

And people like in the comments people have been saying it's a publicity stunt.

He knows the owner.

You can generally, you can genuinely feel like how nervous you are and how sorry. I so just listen to it all. Honestly genuinely feel it. And I think this is the same feeling you would have had at home when you're sitting there and just when you're seeing it and when people realize.

It was you and your but like it was yeah, yeah it was. It was full on. Did you go off because they were looking for you? Yeah?

Yeah, well mate, all night my phone well I didn't even I didn't watch the news, so I didn't know until later on my phone started going off and I'm checking and it's the boys saying mate, like you're like you're on the news and sending me the links to to the to the to the the story.

And I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep three days.

Yeah, yeah, I was like because you know, like the I was like, this is my life's over, Like I'm going to jail, I'm getting you know.

Yeah, I just didn't know what to do.

Yeah, yeah, thirty, if you want to get involved with this chat, like what do you what do you think about what Matt's done. That seems like a genuine apology to me, and and I hope that the owners of the house are listening, because I'm sure that that goes a long way to making them.

Make a difference to you.

It does, I can tell. I can tell that Matt's sorry, And the fact is that he didn't want to come in today, like so the thought that he's doing it for publicity shows like he would have been dying to get on air, but he was like, I just I want to go to ground. But you had You had the courage to come in here and say sorry and say it on air, and I think that goes a long way.

I wish more people would do that, Matt. Honestly, we see so many high profile people just denying, denying, denying, and you know what when someone genuinely says sorry but open to your opinions.

Thirteen one oh sixty five Christia Veilmo, Hi, ah.

Hi, how are you when you're you know what? Mate? Good on you? Like, not good on you for you know, going and doing what you did because in the moment you had that thought, you did it. You aptioned it. Okay, it's not right. You found out that someone has been hurt by then and you owned it like that is not easy. And there is a lot, there is a lot in this world that we wing a bit about, but no one ever stands up and says thank you, like thank you for owning your behavior. And we as teachers are trying to teach our kids it's okay to make mistakes because that's how you learned, but you need to own it. And you're coming on the radio fac seeing Robin Kiff and Corey that in itself is hard enough. Just say look, I'm sorry on national radio. Mate, I am so proud of you. Good on you.

Ah, thank you so much. That means the world to me.

Christy were like, don't tell us which school, but what age kids do you teach?

So I'm currently doing year six, so I'm just about to graduate.

So I'm on my last.

Placement and I'm doing year six and we are trying to teach those kids. Well, I have a big philosophy you need to make mistakes because.

We all learn from them.

And there's too much negative about Oh, made a mistake, No make it, but yeah you made it and you owned it.

Good on you, Yeah, thank you.

Christine thirteen one six five is our number if you want to get involved.

Do you have a pool kit?

I do have a pool.

What's your addressment?

You may not come around mad, although I've got two kids so it's pretty full of you have a whole time exactly.

But we're inviting everyone's honest opinion because this has really divided our city. Thirteen one O sixty five Rachel of thorn Lands, What do you reckon?

Oh look, Matt, I saw you on TV yesterday and I thought, yep, okay, you've gone for a run, gone for a jump in the pool, understandable and our hate. But this morning you've done it for me. I'm on the wrong side of the fence now because you didn't just do it once. You did it four times. So I can forgive you the first time and great that you've wund up to it, but to do it four times you've lost my respect now, I'm afraid.

And that's that's fine. Like I mean, like I found my private pool, that's all. Uh No, so in a way, in a way, in a way, So I didn't mean that how I said it. So what I what I meant was I found what I thought to be a display home.

So I thought it was, well.

You did it more than once. You know, once i'd forgive, But four times, Nah, I think you've done the wrong. I mean, great that you've owned up to it. But after four times, I just think you've done it once, you got away with it, you felt it great, going to do it again, going to do it again, going to do it again.

It's not on.

But Rachel, what's he supposed to do now?

Though?

Like he can't change what's happened.

Oh no, he definitely can't change what's happened. And he's done the right thing and it's fantastic, and I think it's great that he has come out and done Yep, I've done the right thing. And like I said, I was one hundred percent behind him until I heard him say this morning. It wasn't the first time he'd done it.

Okay, so much, Rach, we value all the and Sharon of Ogra, what do you reckon?

Well, I think that he's genuinely sorry. I think he thought that the house was empty. I think it's a bit of a compliment to the owner that he thought that the house looked like a display home. Happy someone said you're going for a run, He was looking after himself physically, a bit hot, and thought.

He'd go for him.

Kind a girl.

Sharon leuscated James of thorn Lands. What do you reckon?

Oh?

Guys?

Look, first off, I think the fact that you're there, apologizing and owning it is a good thing. Where I see the issue though, is this pure sense of entitlement. Where I mean the fact that that you're considered that the house was empty. The house was always owned by someone. That is someone's sanctuary, whether it was the developer or whether it was the people who lived in the home. You invaded that sanctuary. I don't see the difference between this and some of the issues that we had with the young people in the community at the moments that are breaking and entering. I mean, you still broke and entered as sanctuary. And look the fact that the house, whether you thought the house was empty or whether it wasn't empty. I can't get past the fact that you entire yourself to utilize a facility that belongs to someone else without commission.

What do you think of that? What do you think of that? Man?

James Matte I agree. I agree with him, mate, Like I did the wrong thing, you know, like I didn't. I wasn't thinking not the first time, wasn't thinking like every time, you know. I just thought to me it was just a place where I could go for a swim on my run that I thought was empty, There was no malice in it. I wasn't like, oh, you know, I honestly didn't believe, not that it changes anything, not that it changes anything at all.

I honestly didn't believe that anyone lived in this place.

I know, but I mean I do. I take on board though, that is an entitlement. It absolutely is.

Y and not that we're rewarding you in any sense, Matt for what's happened. But Corey does have a solution for the problem. I'm using other people swimming pools.

I do have one, and I genuinely, I genuine believe you that you made a mistake. People make mistakes, people aren't thinking sometimes and just it happens. But you've owned it and I appreciate you coming out and going forward and doing all that. So I went and bought your pool. No, you have your own house and you can.

That is unbelievable.

It's been wheeled into the studio.

It's a Bunnings in front of ground.

It looks like it's a number.

It's a six person pool.

It's a big pool. It's so heavy it had to be wielded.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to fit that in my boot for the way home.

In the back seat.

On the front seat.

One condition, Matt, you do not ever swim in any anyone else's pool unless you are invited, including my man.

I've had enough. I've had enough torture for the last week. You know, I'm for the rest of my life. Yeah, I've learned my lesson. It's all done, okay, mate, Thank you and thanks for the pool.

Thank you for the pool.

You'll be able to share that with your teammates.

Give your team a play. Who you play for?

Pine his beers. There we go, let's go go nuts for it.

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