1,500 Party Crashers Riot Over Viral Facebook Invite

Some 1,500 Germans showed up to a girl's 16th birthday party, even after she added privacy to the invitation she'd posted on Facebook; 15,000 had said they were going to attend before she changed the visibility of the invite.

What happens when a 16-year-old German teen forgets to set her Facebook privacy settings with regards to invites? Well… all party central hell breaks loose!

A young girl who is being identified as Thessa planned to get together a few close friends to celebrate her birthday at her modest Hamburg home. When she sent out the invites to her party, 15,000 folks confirmed that they would attend the gathering.

When Thessa realized that she had made a whopper of a blunder, she tried to correct her error by cancelling the party, but it was too late.

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