AWFUL WARNING - never go away and leave a teenager alone in the house

[Janh]

or you might come back to this

Well, her name's Elaine Bell, it says on BBC news site!

i had a house party when i was 17 when my parents were away..... but i locked every breakable item in the dining room first. i locked any rooms i din't want them using and went to a club first and only brought about 15 home.

one of the lads fed my cat on his way out in the morning... bless.

best mate was still there 2 days later!

my parents were clever enough to know what was going on though... my dad rang hiome nad asked 'so how did the house party go? if there's any breakages i want the money waiting for me when i get back!'

stupid girl deserves to be up on criminal charges for being so stupid imo.... i mean, advertising on myspace? what did she think would happen?

My folks swanned off to New Orleans one weekend and forbade me to go out.

So I had a house party.

And it got scary because I got bladdered and some pals called other people over and before I knew it the house was full of peeps I didn't know.

Luckily I was sober enough to start telling folks to go home before the neighbours called the cops and I got in MEGA trouble.

But they made such a mess I had to use all my money from work to hire some help to clean it up on Sunday before they got home.

Last time I did that!

OH DEAR GOD!!!
I'm never leaving the kids home alone now!!

expat's story:

"Good old Yellow Pages..."
(French polishers...)

Never leave them alone with a cellphone and internet connection . Mightily powerful isn't it the internet. I cringed when I read it on the Beeb website yesterday. I like the comment that the daughter was staying with "friends for a cooling off period". She's going to need a few jobs to pay for the damage isn't she.

WTF sort of people do this to a house anyway?! Quite apart from the fact she was a bit dim to advertise on myspace - what goes through the minds of people who think "I'll travel 100 miles to wee on a wedding dress"?!

i remember parties like that from when i was a teenager.

there was one awful one where the girl whose parents were only out for the evening, kicked everyone out of the house so everyone rampaged round her garden...i left as they were smashing the glass in the greenhouse...

another party the bannister got broken.

another party a girl went through a corrugated plastic roof onto another girl below.

in fact most of the house parties i ever went to got out of hand!!!!

i have one party aged 13 and loads of 16-17 year olds crashed it and my paretns (who were hiding upstairs) had to come down and kick everyone out. i was oblivious as i was snogging my boyfriend in the room with all the furniture and coats in it.

terrible.

I read that the neighbours did call the police - who turned up. But the party organiser (ie; the girl) wanted the party to carry on so as it was on private property there was nothing they could do apart from "stay and monitor the situation".

If I was her parents that's what would make me so mad - she had the opportunity to say to the police "please get these people out my house" and didn't. She was quite happy as they trashed teh house. I honestly think I would kick her out.

Reminds me of a friend's party I went to when I was about 15/16, the house got totally trashed, furniture smashed, food thrown around the house, ketchup squirted on the walls just wanton destruction. The police eventually arrived and broke it up. I remember as I left her Mum arrived and just screamed and screamed when she saw the house

There is no way my dd's will ever have the opoportunity to do the same.

I would never, ever, ever, trust teenagers in a house alone.

They are very often wonderful, kind, funny, terrific people. But they also tend to have the common sense of a gnat and seem to feel that 'everything will be OK'.

only [shocked] that the parents where daft enough to leave her in the first place!

Dh has just told me that this deliberate trashing was "inspired" the television programme Skins. Can anyone shed any light on that?

Well my example occured in about 1987 so don't think Skins was a huge influence there!

OMG, how bloody STUPID to post it on myspace. I'd want to kill her if that was my dd.

lol Soupy re John Bell, hahahahaha, so she's Mrs Bell then?!

and lol at your ds1 Janh!

I had a party the first time my parents left me to go on holiday when I was 17. Thank god the Internet and mobile phones weren't around then... I thought it was going to be about 10 of my friends but of course word got around and there were friends of friends of friends and a bunch of guys from some pub.

A window got broken, mucho staining of the carpet, drinks cabinet pretty much emptied and one of my friends lost her virginity in my mum and dad's bed (nice!).

Oh yes, and practically everyone in the street phoned the police who came round and chucked everyone out and put the fear of God into me - quite rightly.

I got everything cleaned/fixed by the time I got back and managed to confess before the neighbours spoke to my mum... I think the thing she was most angry about was that every neighbour came round to try and get a nosey into the house as rumour had it that it had been completely trashed inside .

We never bloody learn though, I'd been brought up on stories of my mum's little brother doing the same thing when he was my age - he was so scared of what my grandparents would say that he ran away to London (from Scotland) and had actually found himself a job before he turned up on my parents doorstep for a bed as they were living there at the time.

I will so have ds's number when he gets to that age...

[by the time they got back]

I'm really surprise the police didn't do anything - in my shameful experience they came in and asked whose house it was and when I said mine they replied "no it's not, it's your parents..."

Cue teenage girl turns into puddle of guilt and shame...

I moved in with my boyfriend at 17 and we lived literally 30 seconds from our favourite club so everyone used to crash at ours and we had regular parties. The first one was a bit slow to start but the next few were MENTAL, there would end up being about 50 people crammed in our tiny flat, silly string everywhere, so much drink and pot and the music was so loud the pub a couple of houses away asked up to keep it down.

Eventually it all went tits up, at the last one someone put something in the punch, everyone was going crazy and puking everywhere, they spilt beer on my hifi, and some weirdo old guy had somehow got in (no-one knew who he was) and kissed someones 14 year old cousin who was virtually passed out drunk. It was AWFUL. Makes me shudder even now, we had to get the older guys to throw him out. Then the police were called because of the noise and people throwing things out of the windows, and everyone scarpered...

I won't even go into the mess the next day, the carpets were just ruined, and someone had ripped half the bannisters off the stairs as they fell down. I cleaned it all myself every time though! I must have been mad.

Funnily enough, as an adult I never have parties, not even sedate ones, and the music is never above TV listening level. I guess I learnt the best way by watching my own stuff get trashed!

That girl needs professional help though, I would NEVER have done that to my parents. Not even cos they would have killed me, and believe me they would have.

LOL unquietDad "It's just possible you could save my life..."

I ahd a party when my mum wnet away when I was seventeen there was only about 15 people there and it was reasonably tame all went swimmingly until me and a few remaining stragglers were tidying up. My bf opened the glass front door and the back door to let in fresh air, a gust of wind blew through the back and the front door slammed shattering the six foot glass panel. Until the day she died my mum thought i'd had a seriously wild party and never believed what really happened to the door.

But this is not just a party that got out of hand. She invited them all round (all these strangers) to deliberately and quite systematically, destroy her parents house. It's just awful. I think it would be easier for the parents if the place had just burnt down.

She's been arrested for criminal damage!

Now that'll teach the young madam a lesson...