FB party leads to riots in Nederlander town

USA: A huge range split out in a little Nederlander city after more than 4,000 revellers originated on a party when an party invitation published on Facebook or myspace went popular.

The schoolgirl had only organized a quiet party with some of friends to enjoy her Sixteenth wedding.
When Merthe Weusthuis organized the collecting at her close relatives home, she sent out invites via the Facebook or myspace social social networking site.
But she created one error - she neglected to mark the occasion as “private”.
As details started circulation, a outflow of acceptances became a overflow - and on Saturday night the occasion changed into a large-scale interference as 5,000 gatecrashers clashed with huge range cops outside the Weusthuis close relatives home, on a quite suv road in a little Nederlander city.

Miss Weusthuis’s initial error, in using open-access configurations on Facebook or myspace, meant the electronic party invitation sent two weeks ago was eventually seen by 240,000 individuals, of whom 30,000 verified on the internet that they organized to attend.
But that was not all. An unexpected strategy was released to promote the wedding, reaching great levels of complexity with the setting-up of a web page, as well as a Twitter account which received tens of a huge number of strikes.

Over the following days the party become known as “Project X Haren” - motivated by the movie “Project X”, released this season, in which three kids throw a wedding which spirals out of control.
Scenes from Project X and video from dance celebrations were used to produce movie “trailers” for the party which were published on the YouTube web page.

At one stage during the build-up Skip Weusthuis, understanding that things were getting out of hand, revealed on the internet that T-shirts with her face on were being produced and sold.
Her father, Coen Weusthuis, a management advisor, told her to remove her original Facebook or myspace party invitation and call off the party, but the strength proven unbeatable. Local media revealed on the approaching occasion, while day-trippers started turning up to have their picture taken outside the Weusthuis close relatives home in the city of Haren (population 18,000), near Groningen in the north of The Holland.
Fearing the likely outcome, Nederlander cops were placed on great aware on Saturday as a huge number of youngsters, many drinking beer and mood, started collecting around the home.

By manufactured, time before the party was due to start, Skip Weusthuis – who was shown in a T-shirt with the motto “We Going to Party” soon before her birthday party – was seen being driven away from the home by her mother Frieda, a training advisor, to a safe escape.

As night dropped, stress increased when it became obvious that there was no home party for the audience to gatecrash. Assault split out and 500 huge range cops were implemented, with authorities equipped with boots, protects and batons moving in to club some of the would-be partygoers in the attempt to clear them away from the property.

The disruptions built over into Haren’s city centre, where shops were vandalised and looted, reporters assaulted, a car set on fire, other vehicles overturned and road signs and lampposts broken. During the melee shop windows were created, shoots started and grocery store carts changed into make shift barricades.
Officers, who had journeyed from around places for the occasion, took more than five time to spread the audience. They created 34 busts, while six individuals were harmed, two seriously.
Haren’s primary cops superintendent Oscar Dros said yesterday: “My team had to encounter anger hardly ever seen in the Holland.”

Robert Softball bats, Haren’s gran, said: “Scum ran uncontrolled in our city. An simple party invitation on Facebook or myspace for a party led to serious rioting, devastation, plundering, arson and injuries in the middle of Haren.”
He said that a core list of the rioters “were very aggressive and well-prepared, and purposely sought conflict with the police”.
The scenarios of disorder stunted even the madness around a number of recent 'Facebook parties’ in England, including one in Apr this season when more than 400 gatecrashers penetrated the Sixteenth wedding of Bradley McAnulty at his close relatives home in Poole, Dorset, causing comprehensive damage.