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MySpace invaders wreck another house

April 16th, 2007 11:03 am// Bel //

Another week, another house trashed by MySpace invaders.

How long before some Government minister (John Reid? Alan Johnson?) wades in with talk of a ban?

9 Responses to “MySpace invaders wreck another house”

  1. CalumCarr Says:
    April 16th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

    Hi Bel

    Welcome back.

    Re MySpace:

    What a nightmare. Can’t imagine what coming home to that mess must be like.

    Soon there will be a response - just don’t expect it to be particularly helpful.

  2. Tony Says:
    April 16th, 2007 at 1:13 pm

    Come now Bel, of course there will be no ban. I thought you had a handle on this Government by now?

    There will be a Bill to allow the police to commandeer buses and take the revellers en masse to a cashpoint where they each pay an instant £100 fixed penalty. Each fine will be treated as a ‘detection’ so the police clear up rate figures can look much better.

    Text messages will be sent to the ravers every Friday reminding them not to smash up houses over the weekend and to be quiet when returning home. The cost will be immense, but after two years of fighting to keep the information out of the public domain, it will be revealed by the Treasury that the ‘advice’ of civil servants was only that it was feasible, not an endorsement of the scheme.

    After that, Gordo will confiscate all gold jewellry from revellers, announce a sell off that makes the market value of gold plummet, then sell it to China who will make a tidy profit.

    It’s that simple. Nu Labour. You’ve gotta love ‘em.

  3. Hepzi Says:
    April 16th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    Hey, I wanna find the profile of that girl that threw he MySpace party?! Haha.. has anyone found it? x

  4. dolbyn Says:
    April 16th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    Technolgy like most things people clammer to ban is neither good or evil. Banning things never really works because people go underground or find alternatives.

    But there are 2 possible routes i would support.

    a) making sites such as myspace , or offlicences such as tescos, or the people that litter londons streets with free newspapers, make them contribute to the cost of cleanup. If corporations and organizations felt the concequences financially of lax administration or poor self regulation they might decide doing the right thing is just that.

    b) creating drinking licences. ie requiring people to have a licence before they are allowed to purchase alcohol or to consume it in public. People that are shown to be irrisponsible drinkers, put point on their licences, and pursistant offenders take away their drinking privalges for 12 months. Its a dangerious path to ID cards but its one of the few i’d possibly support.

  5. cityunslicker Says:
    April 16th, 2007 at 10:50 pm

    Thursday lunchtime…

  6. maneatingcheesesandwich Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 12:33 am

    Neither gatecrashers trashing houses, nor opportunists staging parties in unoccupied houses, is a new phenomenon.

    Before we decide that this is the beginning of the end of civilisation, may I draw your attention to (in reverse chronology) :

    raves, skinheads, punks, teddy boys, flappers, women with exposed ankles, Hogarth’s gin drinkers, the Dark Ages and the fall of the Roman Empire, worshipping of graven images ……

    Like leaving your dog in the kitchen, in sole charge of the Sunday joint, leaving your kids in charge of the house (or your house empty for long enough) is just playing with temptation. S*** happens.

    All very sad though.

  7. jailhouselawyer Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 8:58 am

    maneatingcheesesandwich: Funny you should say that about the dog. I remembered too late that I had left half a leg of lamb in the kitchen, one day when I had to rush out. When I got back Rocky was looking guilty as he licked his lips. I could only blame myself…

  8. fidothedog Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    I am sure asbo’s will be issued and the Home Sec., will look stern as he announces another raft of policies - that will be forgotten about in days - to deal with the problem.

  9. Rocky Hirst Says:
    April 24th, 2007 at 9:51 am

    “Woof Wooof woof Woooof grrrr yap! Grooowwwl! (translated: thank you for the dinner)

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