When you're 17 a houseparty is the best way to entertain your friends. Too young to go to pubs and clubs, millions of teenagers up and down the country have house parties every week where they can gather and have a drink... or 10. But for 17-year-old Rachel Bell from County Durham it all went rather sour when she broke the golden rule of house parties - never, absolutely never, make it an open invitation.
Just a rumour of a free house would have half the school planning an impromptu party. The key to success was always to keep it quiet - tell only those you want to arrive and tell them not to advertise it:
You got a free house? Having a party?
Yeah, just a small one.
Alright, I'll tell a few people.
Okay but no randoms.
Right-o.
Its one of the golden rules (along of course with no monkey business in your parents' bedroom). The rules developed over hundereds of years of teen house partying and to ignore them is asking for trouble. Otherwise hundreds of teens descend upon the house, keen for somewhere to have a few drinks and the reuslt was always carnege - it's hard enough to control your friends let alone hundreds of 'randoms'.
And that's exactly what has happened on a massive scale with the help of Myspace. Rachel Bell, 17, advertised her party on Myspace only to have hundereds of revellers turn up at the house - causing £20,000 worth of damage to her parents' home in Houghton-le-Spring in County Durham.
It happened again this week in both Liverpool and Croydon as people advertised their parties on the social networking site - with equally catastrophic consequences. The house in Liverpool was left in a particularly dire state as people travelled from as far away as London, hell-bent on wrecking the house.
What is most astonishing however, is their reactions. A shocked Ms Bell said: "The party wasn't supposed to start until 10 but at half 9 we saw people pulling up in cars. We didn't recognise them and didn't know what was going on so we bolted the door."
Albeit for me to call someone an idiot.
Perhaps it wasn't the fact they showed up early, but the fact she advertised a party with the tagline "let's trash the house" to an audience of millions of teenagers that caused the ensuing devastation?
Or perhaps she gave the wrong impression in the advert?:
"ok so bring more drink - were gunna run out quick & you will be shitted then. Bring food if you like & SQUIRTY CREAM!
Glowsticks etc etc
If you're on acid or something, take that or whatever you have B4 you come in. Please don't leave it lying around for any unexpected plods arriving"
Doesn't really read like your typical invitation for a cheese and wine evening does it? I mean, Squirty Cream? I've been to a fair few house parties in my time but never has the entertainment been provided courtesy of a tube of whipped cream.
Perhaps its about time the golden rules of house partying were rewritten with the first one being 'DON'T ADVERTISE YOUR PARTY ON THE INTERNET TO AN AUDIENCE OF MILLIONS'.
Or perhaps that's just stating the obvious. Either way, one thing is for sure, she certainly won't do it again - next time use facebook, there's a much nicer class of partygoer on there.
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