‘Scary’ New Trend? 500 Partying Youths Break Into Upscale L.A. House After Hearing Family Is Out of Town
- Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:25pm by
Erica Ritz
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While it’s not unheard of for a student to throw a party while their parents are out of town, a new trend seems to be developing in Los Angeles — throwing party at strangers’ houses, after hearing they’re out of town.
Last weekend, two houses in upscale neighborhoods of LA were broken into, quickly becoming the scene of out of-control parties. Police say the young ones had a “free for all” at the strangers’ houses, committing vandalism, stealing things, and “basically trashing” the place.
Most recently, police in riot gear had to break up a gathering of more than 500 people in Holmby Hills (an upscale area of Los Angeles) after someone found out the family was away, and spread the news over Facebook and Twitter.
Rachel Newman, who lives next door to where the party occurred, reported that people started arriving around 10:30 p.m. “like a swarm of bees.” “They were coming in cars. They were coming in cabs,” she recalled. She called the police, but by the time they arrived in the form of two lone female police officers, there were already more than 200 people in the house.
“They were just so brave,” the Newman said. “These two women were in the middle and all these kids’ iPhones were like torches and they were waving them and singing, ‘… the police,’ ‘… the police.’ I was thinking, ‘I don’t think Steve Jobs would like his iPhone to be used in that way.’”
Image from the neighbor's security footage
Soon after, police in riot gear were called to break up the event. When they arrived, the gathering had swelled to more than 500 people. Upon hearing that the police had arrived in a more substantial form, the party-goers “scattered like mice,” even jumping out of second-story windows in an effort to escape.
A number of fights broke out, and several underage youth were cited for drug possession, curfew violation and drug paraphernalia, but the situation was under control in close to an hour.
Many have speculated that the break-ins are inspired by the move “Project X,” which came out last month, where three Californian teenagers try to “make a name” for themselves by throwing a house party, only to find the situation spin out of their control.
The trailer imparts a good idea of what exactly the youth may be trying to recreate (Content Warning: graphic language and behavior):
One of the men whose house was broken into said, “They are out of control, destructive and violent and now life is imitating art in Los Angeles.”
Shana Manlopic remarked that the sight of the teen mob was “Kinda scary actually…I just went and turned on the alarm here while I was here by myself.”
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GoodStuff
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:34pmBut..but…Hollywood says they are just imitating reality in their films.
Wrong, Hollywood creates this culture, and stupid kids follow it.
Report Post »infortheride
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:57pmWhorelywood!!
Report Post »db321
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:25pmIt’s really not the kids fault – they have no accountability – I’m not even blaming their Parents. We took God out of our Schools and our youth feel like if nobody catches them they can do what ever they want.
Our youth were never thought that on Judgement day – everyone will be held accountable for their words and deed.
If they think no one is watching or holding them accountable – then what is to stop them from Rapping, Murdering or Stealing!
If it feels good – then let all do it! It is going to get very serious and I don’t see anyway of stopping it!
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 3:30pmSure, blame Hollywood because some dumbf@%k parent never disciplined their child or taught them right from wrong. That sounds like a rational plan. What should have happened is that the neighbor should have acted like a neighbor and called the family to make them aware of the situation and the fact that they might have to repair a few holes in the walls from 9mm and 12 gauge #4 buckshot. That is what happens in my neck of the woods. If I EVER caught someone breaking into my neighbor’s home (even the trash TSA agent who lives next door), I would give them a lethal dose of lead and then call the city’s clean up crew (police) to deal with the mess and handle the paperwork.
Report Post »Oldbutnotsenile
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 3:53pmYou are so right. I saw chainsaw massacre, but I didn’t go out and buy a chainsaw and start murdering people. How stupid have our children become with all the technology. You would think with the technology we have today, it could be put to better use. I feel social media mania is taking over people’s lives and everything has to be instant or sooner. Even the commercials for fast cell phone data….Get a real life people.
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 4:15pmLive in a million dollar house and no ALARM?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 5:29pmWRONG… Socialist/Irresponsible PARENTS create the PROBLEM… by spawning Child Clones!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 5:49pmBut the “1%” owes them a place to party..right? Should I feel sorry for them however? I had a suspicion the movie would inspire this kind of behaviour but I didn‘t anticipate it being take overs of other peoples’ homes. This is uber-liberal Southern California we’re talking about in this instance. Likely the owners voted for Jerry Brown, Baraka Obama (sic) and support OWS..so….you chose to lay with sh#t..then don’t cry when the stinks rubs off on you.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 7:22pmIt appears we have a sad future ahead when these spoiled, self-centered, brats start running our country. They should be made to spend a summer building homes for the poor and helping the infirmed in hospitals. Some reality might just help a few of them. Pathetic, pathetic!!
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 8:33pmYo NHWINTER:
There is no future ahead as we know it … it kinda comes to a dead end.
Report Post »Onowicit
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 8:58pmThis is why my house is booby trapped.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 10:44pmI‘ll tell you what’s going to happen. The judge will probably fine them a small amount. What should happen is the parents should pay for the damage from their own insurance and pay for the court costs. It won’t happen. The kids know they will be out on the street before the police have their report complete.
Report Post »bitemebiden
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 7:45amDB321,
Report Post »I do still hold them responsible, our Lord has put right and wrong on the hearts of all humans… they do know better regardless of how they grew up. They just choose ignore their conscience.
God Bless.
Cosmos102
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 8:15pmMy first thought after reading the headline was “of course. Why do we expect otherwise from the youth of such dysfunctional parents as those in CA”. I was watching an interview with Henry Wrinkler, a.k.a. “The Fonz” about his children’s book series, and he‘s telling the interviewer that his son’s miserable behavior during a fly fishing trip on a river, that had the guide’s eyes bugging out, was because the guide gave him a fun size Snicker bar, and he didn’t know that his kid is allergic to sugar. I haven’t heard of sugar allergies, just sugar highs, so I looked it up. A sugar allergy is a medical emergency similar to a child getting stung who is allergic to bees. So this kid got a pass for his borish behavior, plus Daddy Wrinkler seemed proud because the kid doing his best impression of the Phantom of the Opera, quote, “Really has a wonderful singing voice and could remember every word.” Just shaking my head at the way these CA types raise their kids. That is if they pay any attention to them at all.
Report Post »cliffattheblaze
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:31pmWhen you have amorale young people who are not employed but have money from their parents, and you add the ability to tell hundreds of people about something all at once via facebook, you get this.
Flash mobs are something that the Science Fiction writers never dreamed of. Look out for new applications of the flash mob phenomenon. These stupid parties are just the beginning.
What happens if there is a food shortage, for example. Would any store be safe if someone organizes a flash mob to go get food?
This is the first time in history that we had so many people who have no morality, who have never darkened the door of a church. Social media in their hands is frightening.
Report Post »Kerstile
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 4:04pmIt has been written about in Sci-Fi. Larry Niven wrote a short piece of semi-non-fiction in the late ‘60’s regarding “flash riots” using teleportation. Now, teleportation is impossible, but his short work details nearly exactly what is happening now via social media. Mr. Niven also describes cell-phones in a few of his ‘60’s pieces. Wonderful visionary writer. His masterwork is “Ringworld”.
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:29pmVery scary, reminds me of those mobs that go into stores and steal stuff. If these kids are severly prosecuted, that may stave off others from doing this to other homes. There has to be punishment.
Report Post »Mahakala
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:29pmIt‘s nothing a few machine guns can’t put an end to real quick.
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 12:12amThe police need to open up with automatic weapons and erase these vermin. I know there are a lot of people that will say how dare you say that. But it’s time for the crap to stop.
Report Post »vermindust
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 9:58amNo need for a massacre.
Report Post »Ult. Vinnie 24:7
crazyrightwingmom
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:26pmWere they arrested?
Will they pay the damages???
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 4:07pmmy guess is the only ones that will be arrested are the ones foolish enough to post pictures of this online. this new mob tactic the kids are using these days to rob stores or in this case destroy someones home needs to be addressed by law enforcement. A pair of officers responding to a disturbance isn’t going to be able to handle the new mobs of bad kids running around. My child is in elementary school (4th grade) and it’s funny but I can already see the kids that are going to grow up and be the bad ones. Not looking good for the future of our nation seeing as these kids are future voters.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:24pmWhoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. Proverbs 13:24
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart. Proverbs 29:17
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. Proverbs 22:15
But lately, parents are getting their advise from Hollywood troglodytes, not from God. Now parents just want to be “friends” with their kids… guess we can see how that approach is working out.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 3:33pmToo true. Alot of people go around misquoting it and saying “spare the rod, spoil the child”, which is a far cry from hating you child. Anyone who will not discipline their own child is setting them up to be an adult in prison or worse.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:21pmOur No respect youth of this nation. California weird will have more weirdos , they go there , breed there, & learn there craft there. They will be coming 4 ur money & home soon.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:14pmoh the youth of america. looking at our future isn’t looking so good is it?! these mass robberies of stores where the mobs flood in, shootings at schools on a regular basis, the entitled kids out breaking into homes to throw parties. secular society should be very proud of itself
Report Post »SPARTANSWHATISYOURPROFESION
Posted on April 5, 2012 at 7:38amI think you need to get out into the real world. Nothing like that happens up in Maine. All that stuff happens in the progressive hot spots. Normal people arent like that
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:03pmWhat do you expect? Hollywood comes out with a stupid movie about some kids throwing a big party, showing them causing property damage to other people’s houses, as if it were normal.
Report Post »The blame should be on the parents, first, then the kids, then the educational system.
I agree, send the parents the bill for all the damage, put the kids in jail. None of this “Lindsay Lohan community service” crap.
teamarcheson
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:14pmI See Hoodies. Are They All Black? Obama wishes each one of the black males was his son.
Only Blacks can break into homes, sack them, and take what they want. The police are afraid to arrest blacks and the judges are terrified to try them. The only thing we can do is to Zimmerman-ize Hoodies.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:16pmThat house looks like mine but I only have two boxes of 12ga shotgun shells. Should I buy more? The barrel of my shotgun will overheat if I had to blast away at all those Hoodies.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:19pmThe Obama New Media deliberatly altered the video of the attack on that house so you cannot tell the race of the Hoodie attackers but we will not be fooled this time. We know LA is a government protected black reservation that blacks stage attacks from. The police and judges will not do anything.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:59pmWhy do they not do this to the houses of the hollywood facists who support Obama?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:27pmPerhaps someone should find THEIR addresses .. and put the word out ;-)
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:27pmLet’s start wih Spike Lee , Roseanne, etc…. ;-)
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:57pmThe fit his the shan there huh? I wonder if this is just a sign of the times where the rich are being targeted simply because they are well off? That people and kids are fed up with the have and have nots and are just trying to level the playing field somewhat? I liked that stupid comment hwo the Iphone was used, shows some reall stupidity if that is the ony concern. Kids today are getting more and more involved into things like this, there attitude is a direct reflection of what is happening in this country today. The complete division of people simply based on the size of the banks accounts.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:54pmshoot them,
then send the bill to their parents
Report Post »Man-On-A-Mission
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:50pmObama‘s peoples’s….what ever. Sound like a bunch of bored rich kid’s with nothing better to do.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:00pmIf that is the case expect no charges at all. The parents will pay for clean up and the kids will go to prestigious universities and become our future government. Now THAT, is hell in a handbasket.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:05pmNo, it’s more than likely prez islama voters.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:49pmI hope the owners use all of the resources available to prosecute these hoodlums.
Report Post »susie4dy
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:44pmwhere are these kids parents? I hope they are made to pay for their crimes!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:40pmSocialism = Don’t have to follow the rules, do what we want when we want. Everyone else be damned.
Great Job Obama, you are teaching our youth in public schools very well. Martin Luther King is turning over in his grave right now.
Report Post »Red Meat
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:05pmLA voters reaping what they sow. Couldn’t be happier myself.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:06pmactually under socialistic rule, you better follow the rules or else.. ever read 1984? what are you talking about?
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:40pmSimple solution to this…claymore mines.
Report Post »mercenary4freedom
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:27pmHopefully the cops were able to detain some of the party goers, interrogate them until they rat each other out, then one by one charge them & their parents with B&E, Vandalism, Burglary, theft, etc, prosecute and send them to the jail. Make them pay & make an example out of em & this crap will cease!
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:36pmThese kids really have the occupy message down. Why squat in an old church building when you can “party like a rock star”.
Report Post »maccow
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:45pmThis is what lawlessness looks like.
OWS and the supposed 99% are a lawless mob lead by lawless radicles.
The 99% Spring will usher in more displays of lawlessness for the media to ignore.
The media is a lawless propaganda machine.
The Arab Spring is lawless mob rule and will spawn more lawless Islamic radicles.
The austerity protests in Greece, Spain, France and the rest are a pre-taste of the lawlessness coming to our door soon.
The Travon Martin case is building up to be a study in lawlessness as the rule of law ceases to have any bearing on the case.
The Supreme Court has to rule on Obamacare because a bunch of lawless politicians lawlessly rammed through a lawless un-Constitutional mandate.
Eric Holder and Fast and Furious = lawlessness
Eric Holder and Black Panther intimidation = lawlessness.
Assaulting the Church’s doctrines against abortion and contraception = lawlessness
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains [will do so] until He is taken out of the way. (2 Thessalonians 2:7)
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (2 Timothy 3:1-2)
For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, (2 Timothy 3:6)
Them with ears let them hear.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:36pmIt will be interesting to see where this goes. . . . . and if there is a bit of the Occupy groups involved.
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:35pmLawlessness increases. Matthew 24 end times description.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:07pmyou wish!
Report Post »Rightallalong
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:34pmI wonder if OBBAMMIE will chime in on this saying how its unfair that these poor kids don’t have a place to party… its getting closer folks.
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:33pmThese are Obama’s people……If you want it just take it…
Report Post »BumperMorgan
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:16pmNotice no one was home.
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:20pmsooo???
Report Post »oswell
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:32pmNice to see mobs are using technology for maximum benefit to mankind.
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:30pmProgressivism = Gangsterism = Demoralization
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:30pmcareful idiots………….you don’t want to get shot breaking in peoples homes just to party
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:52pmYou got that right .. and this is EXACTLY why we NEED to keep CASTLE Laws in the states .. because the Federal REGIME is encouraging these type of thing …
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