Web revellers wreck family home

[devblt 0]

About 200 youngsters caused damage put at £20,000 to a family home after a party organised on a website.

Police said a teenage girl used the social networking site MySpace to advertise the bash while her parents were away from home on Easter Monday.

A spokesman said some people travelled hundreds of miles to the house in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham.

It is alleged guests urinated on a wedding dress, stole jewellery and swung from light fittings.

Party-goers are also said to have stubbed out cigarettes on the carpet, vomited throughout the house and barricaded the back door to prevent neighbours from intervening.

'Out of control'

The sixth-former's parents returned on Tuesday morning to find the trail of destruction at their £230,000 house in Chipchase Court in Woodstone.

They have now moved out of the house to have it professionally cleaned.

A Durham Police spokesman said: "The girl's parents were away, she invited people around and it spiralled out of her control.

"It was a private house party and we've been told it was advertised on MySpace.

"We had a large number of complaints from neighbours and at various points we had to intervene."

He said no arrests were made on the night, but police were attempting to trace all the party-goers as part of an investigation into allegations of criminal damage.

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6549267.stm

Edited April 12, 2007 by devblt

[Niels Bohr 72]

That's horrible. There's a new market called, " Second Life, " a work in progress. It's similar to living in the real world, except for the fact that your life will totally be inside a virtual environment.

[Peikko 1,575]

Is there supposed to be some correlation with the fact that it was advertised on the web and the teenagers wrecking the house? In other words, are we to infer this is yet another example of how 'evil' the internet is?

Regardless, these teenagers behaved like idiots.

[Nagishkaw 510]

The girl sounds a little demented.

[Ban Hammer 12,863]

i guess the girl is grounded until she's 65.

[ivona 0]

gatherings of different sizes between people who frequent same message boards, or places like LJ and MySpace are completely normal and happen often, and can be quite civilized....

What this girl did was irresponsible and stupid, and the people involved are no better....

It has nothing to do with the internet but with the extinct animal called responsible parenting....

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Where was my invite?

[eau_xplain 2]

Just shows how casually the kids really treat their "MySpace" info and how much they underestimate its reach and accessibility. It's just like inviting your "close" friends to a small party at home and the entire school shows up ... but magnified a hundred times as you have the entire MySpace community as your potential guest.

[Ban Hammer 12,863]

Where was my invite?

sukie has it.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Where was my invite?

sukie has it.

I heard that she was the one that soiled the wedding dress.

[almaty 19]

i got an invite...