Germany: Facebook Party Gets Out Of Control After Girl Forgets Privacy Setting

Better check your Facebook settings before posting a party invitation online.

A teenage girl in Germany who forgot to mark her birthday invitation as private on Facebook fled her own party when more than 1,500 guests showed up and around 100 police officers, some on horses, were needed to keep the crowd under control.

Eleven people were temporarily detained, one police officer was injured, dozens of girls wearing flip-flops cut their feet on broken glass and firefighters had to extinguish two small fires at the 16th birthday party in Hamburg, police spokesman Mirko Streiber said Sunday.

The birthday girl, identified only as Thessa, went into hiding, Streiber said, but "nonetheless the party was a hit."

Thessa had initially only wanted to ask some friends over to her home in Hamburg-Bramfeld when she posted her invitation on Facebook, but mistakenly she published it so that everyone on Facebook could see it.

The invitation quickly went viral, and some 15,000 people confirmed online they would come to the party -- without even knowing the girl, weekly paper Bild am Sonntag reported.

When Thessa's parents found out, they made their daughter cancel the party, informed police and hired a private security service to protect their home on Friday night.

Despite public announcements in Hamburg that the party had been canceled, some 1,500 teenagers and young adults showed up on the street in front of Thessa's home, Streiber told The Associated Press.

"We had cordoned off the house, some 100 police were on the ground, four of them on horses -- but that did not keep the kids from celebrating," Streiber said.

Some revelers held up signs asking "Where is Thessa?" others brought birthday presents and homemade cake, there was lots of alcohol and the crowd chanted again and again, "Thessa, celebrating a birthday is not a crime," -- in obvious relation to the massive police presence, Bild reported.

The police officer was injured when he tried to keep a party reveler from breaking off the Mercedes-Benz logo of his patrol car.

"It was sheer insanity but mostly peaceful," Streiber summed up the night with a laugh.

As for Thessa -- she was nowhere to be seen. Police confirmed she "was not at home that night" and Bild reported that she celebrated quietly with her grandparents at an undisclosed location.


Elf Festnahmen in Bramfeld: "Happy Birthday, Thessa"

1600 Leute kamen zu dem 16.Geburtstag des Mädchens, die die Einladung versehentlich auf Facebook öffentlich machte. Fazit: Ausschreitungen.

Elf Festnahmen, mehrere Verletzte, Müllberge und zerstörte Gärten. Die Reihenhaussiedlung in Hamburger Stadtteil Bramfeld glich nach der unfreiwilligen Facebook-Party mit 1500 Besuchern einem Schlachtfeld. Jetzt hat Schülerin Thessa (16) ihre Nachbarn um Verzeihung gebeten.

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• 06.06.2011

[PaNa57200]

höhöhöhööhö

yeAAAAAAAAH!! PHOHOHOHO! KUUHL!

[Rivannous]

@leklek69

come over here so that I can put a boot up you ass. I know you enjoy it... You get a selfmade wooden penis every night...

You are such an idiot. Shut up and troll other videos, f*king videoless cunt. Eat shit and be gone. The world does not need stupid fags like you. Throw yourself off a bridge and take pride in it, cause that would be the only good deed you have ever done.

FUCK OFF TROLL!!!

[Rivannous]

@flaca123ish

Yeah... She should recieve presents from everyone

[Rivannous]

@ThemeparkSoundtrack

Wenigstens wissen wir, dass man solche Sachen nicht macht. Damit sind wir schon Teil der 10%...

Aber so eine Facebook-Party mal legal in grossem Stil zu veranstalten ist bestimmt lustig. Dann muesste man aber auch fuer gute Musik sorgen und vielleicht sogar ne Megaleinwand um nen Film anzuschauen aufstellen. Das waere dann schon wieder interessant... aber nur weil jemand eine Party angekuendigt hat und das aus Versehen oeffentlich gemacht hat gleich da hin gehn??? naja...

[ThemeparkSoundtrack]

@Rivannous

"some dumb alcoholic under-class idiots."

90% of german teenagers. I guess I'm one of the few 10%

[TheCalifornia2703]

@MegaCaspers they are ;)

[MegaCaspers]

@bomberpilot271

what? that´s not true? I always thought all Americans were stupid and fat :D:D:D

[bomberpilot271]

@leklek69 mfw you see 10 people and say all germans are gay its like i say that all americans or whatever are dumb and fat

[Rivannous]

@leklek69

nope, this was not what normal germany looks like, this is just some shitty event of some dumb alcoholic under-class idiots.

[HannaHurensohn]

It was awesome :D