Dumb kid has wild party, charged $20,000 call-out fee

[Kamakazie Sith]

I take it Australian cops charge the responsible party, i.e., the perps, for the expenses incurred when they go bust the perps' asses? (Sounds like something the US should implement.)

In the city I work in we do something like that. $100.00 an hour if we're called out to a loud party a second time.

Is that per officer, or a flat rate? If the latter, it's pretty cheap, unless you have to start cracking heads.

Actually, I forgot that they updated it for '08.

It's now the following;

$300.00 plus $60.00 per officer per hour; $75.00 per Sergeant per hour and $100.00 per Lieutenant per hour.

[Darth Wong]

After reading about this on Crikey I have to say... Settle down, guys. This "news item" has been pushed along by Today Tonight and A Current Affair, two "news programs" with all the balance and accuracy of The O'Rielly Factor.
As far as I can see, this kid's mistake was to issue an open invite on the web, not realising how many people that would attract. A sixteen year old who made a mistake. Quick! Alert the media! Call Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

Given the number of people who die every year from the "mistakes" of drunken teenagers in cars, I'd have to say that only a moron thinks it's no big deal when a teenager demonstrates a complete lack of judgment even by the standards of his age group.

After that, he didn't say things that were properly apologetic. Of course, he was under pretty serious attack by the usual right-wing reactionary suspects. A sixteen year old under pressure who said some things he probably shouldn't? Wow, that's unusual.

A person who's old enough to drive, with no judgment whatsoever and no ability to take responsibility for the consequences of his own mistakes? Yes, that's a problem. No, it's not unusual. Neither are drunk-driving deaths, but I take those pretty seriously too. Don't be a twat.

[FSTargetDrone]

Now he might make some money:

From The Times
January 26, 2008
Aussie party boy Corey Delaney plans world tour, first stop UK

Paul Larter in Brisbane

The Australian teenager who became notorious overnight after hosting a huge party that ended in a near riot has set his sights on a new career. He is on his way to a venue near you.

Life has become one long party for Corey Delaney. He has signed a deal with one of Australia’s leading publicity agents to put his infamous promotional skills to more lucrative effect as an international party promoter and DJ.

The 16-year-old, whose decision to party while his parents were away led to 500 revellers causing a damage bill of A$20,000 (£8,900) at his Melbourne home, will embark next month on “Corey’s Party Tour” of Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne — as a warm-up to a planned tour of Britain in the summer.

London, Bournemouth, Brighton, Torquay, Blackpool, Southend and Weston-super-Mare are likely destinations as Max Markson, Corey’s manager, sets about putting him on the world stage.

“Watch out London, Corey’s coming,” Mr Markson told The Times yesterday. “He’s going to be the world’s party boy. He threw a good party in the wrong place. Now we’re going to throw a great party in the right place.”

Corey, who finished school at the end of last year, has given up a A$20,000 apprenticeship in carpentry and is retraining as a DJ with one of the best in Australia. Mr Markson says that his earnings this year are likely to reach A$100,000.

No deals are in the pipeline yet but Mr Markson, who will take a 20 per cent cut of Corey’s earnings, is considering commercial offers from party organisers in the United States and from clothing labels and international soft-drink makers keen to tap into Corey’s image of teenage rebellion.

He has taken to appearing on Australian television wearing his trademark faux-fur hooded jacket and oversized yellow plastic sunglasses. “A week ago, I was on the building site working hard, and now they put me on a national tour,” he said. “I’ve got an agent — life’s good.”

He has received death threats that would prevent him returning home even if his parents agreed to have him back, and he has admitted that things had become “a bit crazy”. Jo Delaney, his mother, is considering the use of a family counsellor. She and his father, Steve Delaney, who were furious after the party, have been persuaded to support his latest move and have met Mr Markson.

While some people have applauded the youth’s behaviour, he has been condemned by others as an arrogant brat. One website invites users to “slap” an animated Corey; so far he has been slapped 700,000 times.Mr Markson thinks that Corey — “the most famous and popular 16-year-old in Australia” — will have the last laugh. His tour will enable him to pay the estimated A$20,000 for damage to his parents’ house, neighbours’ letterboxes and a police car — and have more than enough left over to buy a car for himself.

Mr Markson concedes that the party scene may not be a long-term proposition but says that Corey is characteristically nonchalant about the future. “I said to him, ‘If this doesn’t work out what are you going to do?’ ” Mr Markson recalled.

“And he said: ‘I left school at the end of last year, I started doing my apprenticeship to do carpentry and once this finishes I’ll go and get a job’. I think any family would love to have a 16-year-old like that.”

Whee, I'd sure love to have $100,00 for being an asshat.

[SCRawl]

I'd have thought that those pesky criminal charges would have made these plans a little more difficult to carry out. Have they been dropped or something?