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Partying teens cause $200,000 of damage to local home
Posted: March 15, 2010 04:34 PM EDT
Updated: March 15, 2010 10:33 PM EDT
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Partying teens cause $200,000 of damage to local home
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The home on Indian Pipe Drive that was ransacked
NORTH GREENBUSH, N.Y. - Dozens of teens. A vacant home. Plenty of alcohol. It sounds like a scene from the movie Animal House, but this party happened in a local upscale home.
The party happened the night of February 17th, but police are just now saying how extensive the damage was.
Close to one hundred teenagers are being charged, and who knows how many more were there that night.
In a posh neighborhood of million dollar homes, the vacant one at 32 Indian Pipe Drive became host to scores of drunken teenagers, who left a path of destruction in every room.
Police Chief Rocco Fragomeni said, "This is the worst damage we've ever found in a house after a house party in the Town of North Greenbush. They broke chandeliers, they punched holes in walls, they kicked spindles out of the stairway. If it could be damaged, they damaged it."
The damage tops $200,000. Some neighbors heard screaming and saw cars parked outside. A woman who did not want to be identified thought someone was trying to steal a car. She said, "I wanted to come down, but I was scared. I thought maybe they had some weapons or something, so I didn't. But this went on for at least 15, 20 minutes."
The home was not being lived in. A local realtor tells News 10 work on the house was never finished. Unlike most homes in the Pond Hill development, it may not have had an alarm system.
Parents like Clarence Seely are outraged. Seely said, "I would be the first one to turn my kid in if he did that. I feel most parents aren't paying attention to their kids."
Police expect to charge 84 teenagers, seven of them under 16. Many parents would not speak to us, for fear of retaliation against their children.
Now police are trying to find out who supplied the alcohol.
"I think they ought to be ashamed of themselves," said Seely.
As for who should be responsible for repairs, Seely said, "Anybody that was there, they should be made to work on that house and correct it. Everything should come out of their pockets."
If repairs did come out of the 84 teens' pockets, it would equal about $2,400 each.
All of them have been issued appearance tickets for North Greenbush Town Court.
Posted: March 15, 2010 04:34 PM EDT
Updated: March 15, 2010 10:33 PM EDT
Video Gallery <1>
Partying teens cause $200,000 of damage to local home
0:43
The home on Indian Pipe Drive that was ransacked
NORTH GREENBUSH, N.Y. - Dozens of teens. A vacant home. Plenty of alcohol. It sounds like a scene from the movie Animal House, but this party happened in a local upscale home.
The party happened the night of February 17th, but police are just now saying how extensive the damage was.
Close to one hundred teenagers are being charged, and who knows how many more were there that night.
In a posh neighborhood of million dollar homes, the vacant one at 32 Indian Pipe Drive became host to scores of drunken teenagers, who left a path of destruction in every room.
Police Chief Rocco Fragomeni said, "This is the worst damage we've ever found in a house after a house party in the Town of North Greenbush. They broke chandeliers, they punched holes in walls, they kicked spindles out of the stairway. If it could be damaged, they damaged it."
The damage tops $200,000. Some neighbors heard screaming and saw cars parked outside. A woman who did not want to be identified thought someone was trying to steal a car. She said, "I wanted to come down, but I was scared. I thought maybe they had some weapons or something, so I didn't. But this went on for at least 15, 20 minutes."
The home was not being lived in. A local realtor tells News 10 work on the house was never finished. Unlike most homes in the Pond Hill development, it may not have had an alarm system.
Parents like Clarence Seely are outraged. Seely said, "I would be the first one to turn my kid in if he did that. I feel most parents aren't paying attention to their kids."
Police expect to charge 84 teenagers, seven of them under 16. Many parents would not speak to us, for fear of retaliation against their children.
Now police are trying to find out who supplied the alcohol.
"I think they ought to be ashamed of themselves," said Seely.
As for who should be responsible for repairs, Seely said, "Anybody that was there, they should be made to work on that house and correct it. Everything should come out of their pockets."
If repairs did come out of the 84 teens' pockets, it would equal about $2,400 each.
All of them have been issued appearance tickets for North Greenbush Town Court.