I've read this story three times and I still don't know what YouTube has to do with it.

Reuters: Family beaten as YouTube party descends into chaos

LONDON (Reuters) - A teen-ager was airlifted to hospital and his father had his nose broken when gatecrashers went on the rampage at a 16th birthday party after details were posted on YouTube, police and media reports said Friday.

More than 100 uninvited teenagers descended on the family house, stole whisky and champagne, smashed windows and started fighting, according to reports.

The party for their son Christopher was supposed to be a small event with about 30 invited guests. However, details were posted on the Internet, attracting dozens more teenagers.

The invitation was posted on YouTube and that made crazies show up at the house.

Now, the headline is misleading enough.  It wasn't a YouTube Party at all.  It was a regular party, where an invitation was posted on YouTube.

I have to stop and wonder what kind of idjit puts an open invitation to a party at his house out on the internets in the first place.  Even a 15 year-old should know better than that. 

But the lede in that story is boggling as well.  "[G]atecrashers went on the rampage at a 16th birthday party after details were posted on YouTube."  I was sitting here thinking, "What details could someone put on YouTube that would send dozens of teenagers on a violent rampage?"  I mean, teenagers are crazy, we all know, but for them to be sitting at a party and suddenly realize that there are some details about something on YouTube and then fly into a frenzy is beyond the pale, really.

Who wrote this story?  They need a do-over.

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