Wedding Bands

A few months ago, the punk tribute wedding band called Nigel and the Numpties, crashed a well known celebrity wedding party. The celebrity cannot be mentioned due to legal reasons. They turned up to the wedding with all their instruments claiming to be the wedding band, even though no wedding band was booked. But the reality of the situation was they just wanted to get drunk, pick up girls and eat cake. They succeeded until the groom's father got into an argument with the drummer over a salmon canape. The truth of the matter came out and they were ejected by large security guards.

Crashing Parties Web 2.0 Style

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson brought wedding crashing as an art form to the masses, in their great film, The Wedding Crasher.
Of course Weddings are not the only things which get crashed. Web 2.0 has created a new breed of party crashing and a certain Aussie named Corey is making a career out of it.

In the past, gatecrashers have been limited to a small geographical area. Now, people post details of their parties online on any of the many social media sites, gatecrashing can quickly turn into an invasion by hundreds.

Usually when a few hundred people turn up for a party it tends to get out of control.

Myspace Gatecrashers trash house

200 youths crashed a party in the North of England and did $40,000 worth of damage. Police were called in to control the rampaging mob who had found out about the party on Myspace. Some of the party crashers had travelled hundreds of miles to wreak havoc in the party of the unsuspecting teen host.

When the parents returned they were shocked and had to have the house professionally cleaned of the vomit and urine.

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Corey Delaney

Aussie kid, Corey Delaney, advertised a party on Myspace resulting in 500 people turning up and going wild, causing $20,000 worth of damage, including smashing cop cars.
Delaney has been lionised by youths as a legend and condemned by others as an arrogant brat.

Australians, with Web sites invite people to "slap Corey down the street". He has so far been slapped by 695,000 Internet users.

He is even sparking copy cat parties

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London SCHOOLGIRL Thiza Miley’s secret party

When 300 uninvited gatecrashers turned up to this $1,2 million house, things were bound to go wrong. After getting well and truly drunk the party goers ripped radiators off the walls. Swinging on light fittings and spraying obscene logos on the walls.

When the radiators were thrown through the front door and a girl was electrocuted from the water running into open sockets, police moved in and shut it down.

Thiza's Dad was away on business at the time of the 15 year olds party. Wonder where he will be for her 16th?

School Girls Party from hell
100's of Yobs Gatecrash party

The art of the gatecrasher is detailed in a book by Nicolas Allan, The Complete Guide to Gatecrashing. Some useful tips include:

• Dress the part, wear black if unsure.
• Tag along with a group of guest, hide in the gang
• Pick up discarded invites on side tables once it, if challenge you can produce paper work.
• Don't get drunk, you need to keep alert.
• Learn how to read upside down, scan the list as they look for your name and pick one out.

Glastonbury Festival Crashers

Some people go to outrageous lengths to gatecrash. Take the crashers at the UK music festival, Glastonbury. They thought it a clever move to hide in the portakabins. Unfortunately, they chose the wrong time to sneak out of their potty box and found themselves just outside the main gates and quickly surrounded by burly security guards.

Glastonbury used to be quite easy to crash, although they now have a brand new security fence costing 2 million quid. People have got a lot more creative using extendable ladders, rope ladders, digging tunnels. Some even putting together a battering ram, which nearly made it but in the end simply left a large dent before the gatecrashers got rumbled.

Crashing Sports Events

Maurice Flitcroft and Karl Power may not be household names, but they are held in high esteem in the gatecrashing world.

Flitcroft specialised in crashing Golf's Open Championship, numerous times he managed to join the tournament but was found out because he was such a bad golfer. Officials soon learned to recognise him, and in subsequent tournaments he would turn up disguised as a professional golfer from numerous countries from around the world.

Karl Power, has crashed the official Manchester United team photo, played a game of very bad tennis with his mate on Centre Court, whilst the Wimbledon tennis tournament was in full flow, stood on the winners podium at Silverstone during a Formula One race dancing the Riverdance

Basically they blag their way into the events and make a mockery of the millions of pounds spent on security.