Discover the best of the web!
Learn more about Digg by taking the tour.
Facebook Users Meet for Water Fight, Destroys Public Garden
dailymail.co.uk — More than 300 people ran riot and destroyed an award-winning garden after they responded to a campaign for a mass water fight on social networking website Facebook. With the country basking in its recent spell of fine weather, hundreds descended on the Millenium Square garden in Leeds following a listing on the popular website.
- 814 diggs
- digg it
-
Have you ever thought about quitting your job and running away. Away from it all...so far away, no deadlines, no 9 to 5. I think I'm gonna do it.
-
time for a new campaign: "Fix the garden assholes"
-
Damn kids, get off my lawn!
-
Social networking sites are for losers.
-
Daily Fail, buried as spam.
-
I always thought the term "flash mob" was supposed to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
-
Link to facebook event?
-
What a bunch of absolute, absolute assholes.
-
What a bunch of asshats.
-
They are lucky it wasn't a bunch of 4chan users, there would be no park left.
-
Fun in a fountain is one thing, 300 people stomping the grounds is another. A little fore-site and consideration for others would've gone a long way with this group.
-
What a bunch of assHEADS
-
let me get this straight, the brits spent millions on cameras to catch individual terrorists from doing bad things in public, and hundreds of kids get away with massacre on public property..hmmmmmmm. makes me feel safe
-
GOOD JORB FACEBOOK
-
oh noes let blame the facebooks
-
Goood, goooood.
/hand wringing -
Stupid social website + idiotic college students = ...... this digg.
-
See! This is why we can't have nice things.
-
Yea, what the fak, seriously. Read that there summary--apparently, Facebook is the devil and ruined their garden!
-
Yes, I'm sure this is facebook's fault. If this was organised via SMS, would you blame Orange?
-
Water fight? That's bush-league. I woulda had a Jell-o wrestling match with 300 facebook geeks. Now *that* woulda been somethin' to see.
-
Well, no need to water the roses...
-
Omg college students acting like college students! We have to find someone to blame... I know! Let's blame Facebook because there's no way this would have happened if it wasn't for Facebook. I mean, in my day, we used to hand out fliers for such events! Stupid internet.
-
I'm so going to get dugg down for this.
But really. Who really cares that much about 350 people, its good that people are meeting up for things like this, its a good social event. I must admit the garden did look like an awesome place to have a water fight. Anyway it is only a Garden. Would you rather 350 people gathered up to intentionall ruin a garden? Or rob a bank? I dont think so. -
Buried as inaccurate. Facebook people are afraid of real people in the flesh.
-
Can't they all just stick to being peaceful and playing Scrabulous all day? I mean, geez.
-
This is phenomenally awesome...Who cares about the garden, it will grow back. Admire the fact that 300 kids actually got together in semi-organized chaos. That's a feat.
-
This article is a load of *****. It was picked up by the local paper "Yorkshire evening post" then by the national papers. But it has been completely blown out of proportion.
The facebook group was made over a year ago following the success of the last one. It was just a meeting point at the foundation to have a water fight, friendly fun. But obviously plants got trampled on. The papers made it out like it was damaged deliberately, like they went all AWOL and started ripping up plants for fun. This isn't the case. I was there. Although consideration should have been taken into account regarding the plants etc. -
In Soviet Russia.. Parks destroy you.
-
When will flash mobs be used for something good like political/social activism?? They only seem to function as a retard round-up at this point.
-
Nerf>Squirtguns
-
Thats probably more people who enjoyed the garden than the state it was before. To hell with the garden.... looks like they had loads of fun. 10/10
Next time organise it on some beach... or near a natural water source... so you get unlimited ammo. -
Why is this news? Oh wait, it isn't: it's dailymail.co.uk.
-
cmon people they failed to see the potential damage that could be caused, it wasn't their intention to damage the garden. It's not like it was a LETS VANDALISE A GARDEN group.
The event location was poorly chosen and organisers of things like this should take more consideration into the effect they have on the area it is hosted in. Clearly this was not malicious though. -
Absolute idiots, they should all be fined for this, better yet get them right at the heart...[drum roll for effect] ban them from Facebook [gasps]. I don't blame Facebook because this would have happened anyway. It's the dumb participants that deserve the blame, they just destroyed something that people have worked hard at creating and maintaining...hope they're proud of the grief they caused
-
Looks like that water feature was renamed to 'the refill zone'
-
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26449986408 direct link to group
-
BOLLOCKS!!
-
I hope someone went back home with cholera.
-
Kids should learn that with great social networking power, comes great social responsibility. Obviously the plants will grow back and the monument restored, but really is a matter of breaking the law and destroying public property. There should be fines and consequences, whether the damage was intended or not.
-
That garden was hardly "destroyed". The fountain was drained for the pictures (and I imagine, to drain the bubbles that are clearly present) and some plants were clearly trampled, but come on. I don't see any structural damage to the grounds, nor trees uprooted. It looks like a couple of thousand bucks and an afternoon of work for a small landscaping crew. This was not vandalism, terrorism or any kind of ism. This was a bunch of dopey kids doing what dopey kids do. God love 'em. Let's hope they're a bit more careful next time, but when did we become so alarmist and humorless?
-
Isn’t a “spur of the moment” society just great!
Your sports team wins, cause mayhem and vandalize everything
Your city is hit by a hurricane, loot to your heats content
Your city holds a summit, cause mayhem, vandalize, and loot to your hearts content
And then when the police come in to stop you call them Nazis and complain about how your peaceful gathering was rudely interrupted and your rights were violated.
Yup a spontaneous society is a wonderful thing -
That is a good idea. Thanks.
-
Look at what some of the assholes are saying in that facebook group. How selfish can you get?
-
The term "douche bags" comes to mind.
-
These people did nothing wrong. To give an analogy, it's as if I slashed the tires (e.g. trampled) of a stolen car (e.g. public parks paid with taxes which are gathered with the threat of violence).
The real story is the threat of violence used to make a garden (which most people would never pay to create). -
Whilst I don't condone their ill-planned fun, the majority of comments here seem to be toeing the Daily Mail line of middle-aged indignation.
OK, they ***** up and made a mess. Yes they should clean it up.
BUT, a cursory read of the comments attached to the article should make you realise the angle of the story, and see that its intention is to cement the demonisation of youth amongst our tech-ignorant elders.
Jesus, aren't Digg users young, fun-loving people? -
Yes, right, let's blame facebook. This is all facebook's fault. So people went to a garden to have a water fight. Their intention was not "let's go trash that nice garden." Sometimes innocent petunias just get trampled! No one is to blame! And it's no reason to go to the bloody police. If the garden owners had it their way, the thing would be roped off at a 10 metre radius.
-
Oh *****, what will happen when this 3,000+ water fight in Central Park goes down?
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12083208171 -
People are such #$&%ing sheep.
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by 
by - All About Digg
- About Us & Contact
- Take a Tour
- How Digg Works
- Frequent Questions
- The Digg Blog
- Jobs at Digg
- Diggnation Podcast
- Digg Tools & API
- Check out Digg Tools that let you integrate Digg into your site and add Google features.
- Develop your own tools with the Digg API.
- UPDATED! Add Digg to Google
- Digg Store
- Get hats, shirts, hoodies, and more at the Digg Store.
- Advertise
- You can buy advertising on Digg through our advertising partner Microsoft.
- Digg Labs
- Get a real-time look beneath the surface in the digg labs with our tools arc, swarm, stack and bigspy. Also see Digg Spy, our original real-time tracking system.
- Digg the Candidates
- Check out Digg the Candidates, where you can Digg and watch the activity of your favorite Presidential candidates.
© Digg Inc. 2008 —
Content posted by
Digg users
is
dedicated to the public domain.
DIGG, DIGG IT, DUGG, DIGG THIS, Digg graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.