Facebook gatecrashers wreck middle class house – really?
The standard of reporting in Brighton’s Argus is pretty dreadful at the best of times so I wasn’t entirely surprised to find out that a shock and awe teen facebook party horror story they ran with on the yesterday’s frontpage was faked.
The story ran that a local band ‘Doll and the Kicks’ posted a competition on Facebook to win a personal gig. The girl who won lived in a £million mansion in Hove, but unfortunately when the band played hundreds of teenagers gatecrashed the house after finding her address on Facebook.
To give the Argus some credit this kind of thing does go on regularly in Brighton, however the reporter really should have picked up on the fact that the photos were in a 16:9 widescreen format and that they we’re all well composed and professionally lit.
My favourite part of the article was a picture of a guy wearing a fantastic zebra head with the caption “A reveller even turned up wearing a Zebra head”
The story has been pulled from the site with no apology, but here’s the band’s video they took the shots from to punk our crap local paper.
