Partying teenagers rampage

Rampaging teenagers are terrorising Rotorua neighbourhoods as they go overboard celebrating the end of the school year.
One Rotorua man who was attacked by youths during an out of control party in his street, is still off work nursing wounds.
Teenagers went on the rampage outside his Mount View Dr home, ripping a mailbox out of the ground and throwing it through his window. He was hit in the head with a metal pole and a fence paling.
Police say they are currently being called to an average of three out-of-control parties every weekend and they fear the next two weekends could be even worse as the school year winds up.
The Mount View Dr resident, who asked not to be identified, told The Daily Post up to 20 youths who had been at a party down the street on November 28 gathered outside his home, where he and a few friends were having a quiet drink.
When asked by his friend to move away, the teenagers got rowdy, the man said.
About four-and-a-half hours later as the man was heading for bed, a mailbox was hurled through his living room window. When he went outside to see what was happening, he was hit in the face with a metal pole.
He and two friends chased about five teenagers down the street where he was hit in the head - this time with a fence paling - by a youth hiding in a hedge. He fell to the ground before trying to chase the youths again but gave up and returned home where the rear window of a friend's car had been smashed. He said his attackers looked about 14 or 15.
An ambulance was called and the man was treated for head injuries, including grazing and a cut on his cheek.
He has had to have two weeks off work to recover from the attack and is still in pain.
"I was just bumming out because it had to be my house," the man said. He had also heard about another neighbour who was attacked with a metal bar.
He said he believed teen parties got out of control because some who went were focused on causing trouble instead of having a good time.
Rotorua police area commander Inspector Bruce Horne said even "good kids" with "good friends and good parents" were falling victim to wild parties as uninvited teens quickly spread word about the gatherings via text messages.
"The really scary thing is they all turn up and they [the parents] don't know who they are. They walk out with stuff and in worst cases are having sex in bedrooms and are vomiting over your carpet.
"Then kids start spilling out in the streets, racing around neighbours' properties, leaving rubbish everywhere and kicking over letterboxes. The parents have to spend the next year doing damage control with all the neighbours."
Mr Horne said some parties in recent weeks were so bad, partygoers had "cleaned out" houses.
"They walked out with the CD collection, digital cameras, wallets and change out of the jar sitting in the kitchen."
Mr Horne said the message was simple - don't have parties.

WHAT TO DO:
If a party is too noisy call the Rotorua District Council to make a noise complaint. Calls will be diverted to their after-hours service and complaints will be logged. The noise control services operates 24 hours a day.
The council will pass the information on to a security company, which will determine if the noise is excessive enough to take action
If fighting breaks out or party goers are causing problems or vandalising property, call the police on 111

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