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Enhalo wrote on 2012-09-26 17:42
Source:
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/22/14028638-thousands-descend-on-tiny-dutch-town-after-facebook-invitation-goes-viral?lite
Police officers were attacked and cars were set alight when a sweet 16 birthday party in the Netherlands turned into a nightmare. The Facebook invite, which was meant to be a private affair, became a party of thousands.
AMSTERDAM -- Riot police broke up crowds of youths who turned violent in a tiny Dutch town late on Friday after several thousand people descended on the community after a schoolgirl's Facebook invitation to her sixteenth birthday party went viral.
Media reports said six people were hurt, including three seriously, after disturbances broke out in the quiet northern Dutch town of Haren. Reports said shops were vandalized and looted, a car set on fire and street signs and lampposts damaged before police broke up the crowds.
A teenager's birthday party in a small Dutch town got out of control when the invite went viral. NBC's Duncan Golestani reports.
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Chairs burn in the northern Dutch town of Haren late on Friday after thousands of party-goers showed up to a teenager's birthday party.
"She posted the invitation on Facebook and sent it to friends, who then sent it to other friends and soon it spread like wildfire across the Internet," Melanie Zwama, Groningen police spokeswoman told the AFP news agency according to the BBC.
A Twitter account was set up to promote the event, and the Dutch Daily News identified a video posted on YouTube that also promoted the party.
Dutch DJs Yellow Claw and Afrojack -- who each have thousands of Twitter followers -- posted messages about the party on their accounts (in Dutch).
Reports said up to 3,000 people showed up in the town of 18,000.
Haren had been bracing for the event for most of the week.
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Hundreds of youths gather in Haren, northern Netherlands, on Friday. Dutch mass-market daily De Telegraaf reported that tens of thousands of people received a Facebook invitation to a schoolgirl's birthday party.
Girls, please protect your internet privacy :c
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RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-09-26 18:51
Media reports said six people were hurt, including three seriously, after disturbances broke out in the quiet northern Dutch town of Haren. Reports said shops were vandalized and looted, a car set on fire and street signs and lampposts damaged before police broke up the crowds.
lol!
The party was just an excuse for them to riot, no sane person loots and sets cars on fire for the sake of it.
Afrojack is huge in the world of electronica, he was probably a major contributor to this. I've never even heard of Yellow Claw.
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Mentosftw wrote on 2012-09-26 18:54
I laughed pretty hard at this.
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Sinned wrote on 2012-09-26 19:50
Why couldn't this happen on Sweet 16 on MTV?
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Yoorah wrote on 2012-09-26 20:13
Quote from RebeccaBlack;956075:
The party was just an excuse for them to riot, no sane person loots and sets cars on fire for the sake of it.
It's partly that and partly crowd mentality. People tend to turn stupid (or become more susceptible to stupid) when gathered as huge crowds.
I guess the party got crashed!
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RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-09-26 21:06
Sure, but there comes a point where it's not just a person accidentally getting hurt in the chaos of being around others. Someone had to make the decision to light a car on fire and maybe the others followed, but it didn't come out of nowhere.
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Rin wrote on 2012-09-27 14:04
Yes, who would cars on fire for a girl's 16th birthday?
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Yoorah wrote on 2012-09-27 20:25
Any guy wanting to impress the girl, of course.
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Lolicon wrote on 2012-09-27 22:30
I found this hilarious.
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Juno wrote on 2012-09-27 22:40
Quote from Yoorah;956487:
Any guy wanting to impress the girl, of course.
What? Are bouquets not enough now?
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paladin wrote on 2012-09-27 22:44
Quote from Juno;956513:
What? Are bouquets not enough now?
Ask your fellow females