Parental Liability during teenagers house party?

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I just just have a new home that cost an arm/leg. Would never have kids in this house
 
RockerGuy said:
I just just have a new home that cost an arm/leg. Would never have kids in this house
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Wow that sucks! I guess riding is out now that you're down to one arm and leg. Enjoy the new house tho. :)
 
Tough question to answer. Outside is easier than inside, but how large is the property and how well can they control entry to the property? How well do they know the friends of friends? Sometimes it's not a big deal. We've been to keggers with > 1000 people without issue, and parties with 30 people that ended up with a whole team of cops + K9 showing up. Others are correct though, 50 can be a tipping point.

If you anyone can just stroll up on the lawn or enter the house, this gets difficult to control. You can have a party outside, but people will still use the washroom, grab water, find uhhmm "privacy", etc. How well do they know the friends of friends? The problem is friend of friends easily turns into friend of friends of friends, but not the kind you want there. If people find the party easy to get into and a good time, the invites could spread quick. If guests find some sort of scrutinization/validation to get in, they'll be reluctant to invite others if they can't just come in. Based on experience, parties where entry is controlled tend to go much better than uncontrolled entry. Without an invite, ticket, list name/etc you don't get in. If its open entry you roll the dice on who shows up.

A party is fun, but we've seen windows smashed, cars keyed, houses wrecked. It can get ugly real fast. If in doubt, cancel it. Host a party on another day but approach the guest list question differently where friends cannot just invite whoever they want. A few hours of fun for some can turn into a major headache and a lot of money.
 
shanekingsley said:
Well at least I know he can count on our vote. It was all good - the kid is a champ and so are his friends. We went out for dinner and stopped in unannounced a few times and all was good. By the time we got back there for the night, he and his friends had the house all cleaned up and were just sitting around chilling in the gazebo outside. Nothing got broken and his friends were all really responsible.

Times have changed - we would have had 5 kegs going with DJ's and a boomin system.
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It sounds like the parents have raised a good kid who knows how to pick his friends. Well done by all of them.
 
shanekingsley said:
Well at least I know he can count on our vote. It was all good - the kid is a champ and so are his friends. We went out for dinner and stopped in unannounced a few times and all was good. By the time we got back there for the night, he and his friends had the house all cleaned up and were just sitting around chilling in the gazebo outside. Nothing got broken and his friends were all really responsible.

Times have changed - we would have had 5 kegs going with DJ's and a boomin system.
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What an emotional roller coaster, crisis averted, thanks for letting us tag along. Now that you've been lulled into complacency the next one should be a doozy.
 
Sounds like the kids are smokers (left handed) instead of drinkers. Nothing broken? No fights? No vomit covered furniture? The grass really is greener! :P
 
Kid around here did that. Posted a party for friends(about 10), when parents were away. 50 people showed up. While they didn't trash the place, there were beer caps and cigarette butts everywhere. I'm not sure how she was thinking of handling it if a bunch of drunk guys passed out on her couch.

I remember a Beach party in Toronto, where an underaged drunk took a swing at the host's mother, who was supposedly chaperoning the thing.
 
DECIMIS said:
Sounds like the kids are smokers (left handed) instead of drinkers. Nothing broken? No fights? No vomit covered furniture? The grass really is greener!
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I pray that my future kids are left handed smokers.

I'd rather pay for the extra food for them and their friends than have to do renovations and repairs every couple months.
 
I feel offended now. Why is pot considered left-handed. :(

Not sure that I'd want a bunch of dope heads bumming off me for the rest of my life, but to each his own.
 
Not sure how much pot was smoked if any. Lots of beer pong and other games. There was about 5 of his friends who crashed on the couch for the night and that's better than them wandering the streets trying to get home.

For years we have thrown an annual Boxing Day house party on College street and a few years ago I looked around the room and didn't recognize anyone... So many people just walking in off the street. Was an amazing party, but never again...
 
Boots - HAHA! I wouldn't 'pray for it' per-say, but it's definitely the lesser of two evils.

Baggsy - I thought the 'left hander' reference was very old slang, like 30's or 40's. Don't know for sure though. It is a more obscure reference for sure.

Shane - Just having some fun. Glad to hear everything turned out well - they sound like good kids, which comes directly from good parents!
 
That's all well and good but how wasted do you have to be to count "about" 5 friends? I can see guesstimating crashed friends at about, oh, a dozen or so but five? 4 friends would have been 20% less, not a rounding error.
 
Baggsy said:
I remember a Beach party in Toronto, where an underaged drunk took a swing at the host's mother, who was supposedly chaperoning the thing.
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I witnessed the same thing during a halloween party in the beaches a couple years back. Got pretty ugly

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