Dancing tagger's weapons claim rejected

The YouTube clip shows the youths dancing for the owners of the fence they allegedly tagged. Photo / Supplied

The Whangarei man behind the "dancing taggers" video says talk of weapons is rubbish and the youths accused of tagging his fence danced willingly.

Police are continuing their investigations into a couple who made the two young men dance on video until police arrived and then posted three clips on the YouTube internet site.

This week, officers interviewed one of the youths, who had claimed in a TV3 interview that they had been forced to dance after a weapon was pulled.

Shane, a student aged 18, alleged in the interview that homeowner "Izzy" told them to go with him and if they would not dance he would start breaking bones.

He claimed a knife was pulled on them and they were told to dance.

When he spoke to the Northern Advocate earlier in the week, Shane made no mention of weapons and said he remained at the house because he knew police were coming.

Izzy said the allegations were made as the taggers tried to save face after being humiliated by the clips.

"I didn't have any weapons and there was no violence," Izzy said. "I'm a family man. I'm not interested in violence, weapons. I don't condone anything like that."

He and partner Tracy had been angry and making the men dance was a spur-of-the-moment decision.

Though Izzy removed the three video clips from YouTube on Tuesday, other internet sites have since posted a 10-minute clip of the dancing taggers.

Two sites had more than 113,000 views in two days.

Izzy says he never intended for things to blow up as they had.

"I thought the boys had had enough humiliation, I'm going to delete this off my YouTube account," Izzy said.

"Whangarei is a little town. All I wanted was 100, 200 people to see it, laugh at those boys and that's it."

On Wednesday, 20-year-old Karl Matthew Trail appeared in the Whangarei District Court on a charge of wilful damage. It was indicated he could be offered diversion by police.