A tantrum like that would have cost my children a black and blue bottom, regardless of whether it was in public or not!
Oh, no, not on bricks. Our daughter’s two tantrums, about a nano second long, were on a rug. She ran to the rug before she threw herself down. It was so obvious that it was fake, drama, we ignored it and laughed. It’s still funny. She NEVER threw a tantrum in public.