Teenager an unwitting party to chaos
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on March 17, 2008
THE perils of inviting “everyone” to a teenage party in the
modern world were dramatically illustrated at the weekend when more
than 500 gatecrashers trashed a country house in a Corey
Delany-style party in south-western England.
Thousands of dollars of damage was caused, with windows
shattered and curtains ripped out at Colehayes Park in Devon, a
listed Georgian building now run as a field study centre.
Carloads of teens jammed the drive through Colehayes’s
eight-hectare park, overwhelming four bouncers and evading police,
over four chaotic hours.
Initially blamed on BBC Radio 1, which featured the private
party on a “shout-out” - where listeners tell the world about cool
things going on - the chaos snowballed from an ill-advised poster
at Torquay Grammar School. It was pinned up by Sarah Ruscoe, who
light-heartedly invited one and all to her 18th birthday fancy
dress bash, which she presided over dressed as a dominatrix.
“Little did I know almost everyone from my year would attend and
what is more invite ‘everyone’ from different schools and the
surrounding area,” she said ruefully, as her family and decorators
struggled to cope with smashed furniture and beer-sprayed walls.
“Admittedly perhaps I was foolish and naive but how often does a
poster cause chaos and devastation?
“Perhaps it is when a large circle of friends, social networking
sites and even the radio make communication that much more
efficient.”
Her mother is considering action against the BBC.
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