[BNM] [OT] The Facebook Republican Army, based on Brighton's Whitehawk estate

[Alex Farran]

A slightly different take on it here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/3542290/My-Super-Sweet-16-party-overrun-after-Facebook-invitation.html

  Drunk youths, many of them from local independent schools, scaled
  the walls; windows and plant pots were smashed and the house was
  littered with drinks cans and bottles. Lightbulbs were even stripped
  from their fittings.

  ...

  There were claims that the party had been deliberately targeted by a
  group calling itself the Facebook Republic Army which scours the
  internet looking for parties to overrun.

  The same group "claimed responsibility" for damaging a manor house
  in Worthing last year. But police said they had "no intelligence"
  that such a group was involved.

and here http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3941770.Army_of_yobs_invade_party/?action=complain&cid=7372551

  Mrs Hobday
  "I do understand that at that age they have nowhere to go because
   they can't go to clubs, but invading someone else's party and
   wasting police time and money is not the answer.

   ...

  A gatecrasher, who did not want to be named, said: "I didn't know
  the girl who organised it but we heard about it through friends of
  friends.


Advertising the party publicly (if indeed it was) can't have helped,
but word would have spread through all the usual channels regardless.

I think this 'army' is just giving the media what they want to hear to
get their names in the papers.

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