CAPSICUM spray was required to subdue a wild party which spilled into fights in a West Wodonga street on Saturday night.
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Wodonga police were forced to call for reinforcements from Albury to attend the party involving 150 intoxicated teenagers aged between 15 and 18 years.
Police confirmed the party originated at a home where the parents were away for the weekend and was promoted on Facebook.
Sergeant Tim Mooney said the party was one of the worst of its kind he had encountered for two years in Wodonga.
He said capsicum spay had to be used to break up a fight between two girls.
“We had two girls fighting and then 10 or 15 others got involved,” Sergeant Mooney said.
“It enabled us to break that up and then they started to get a bit aggressive towards us.
“That is when the reinforcements were called in.”
A resident of Murray Way for less than a month, who wished not to be named, said a 15-year-old girl used her garden tap to remove the capsicum spray from her eyes.
Other residents said they were aware of a party in Murray Way about 7.30pm before police responded to noise complaints about two hours later.
Back-up from interstate was called when the party spilled right along Murray Way with police officers involved in a booze bus operation on Saturday night also called into assist.
“The majority of them were probably under-age,” Sergeant Mooney said.
“We do see a lot of under-age parties, but this is probably the worst one we’ve been involved in for a while.
“I would imagine with a large number of those party-goers their parents were unaware they were at that party.
“It was obvious speaking to some of them that several kids were staying together at the one place.”
He said the incident lasted nearly three hours.
Sergeant Mooney said there was no evidence of drugs with all issues relating to alcohol.
No charges were laid and no reports of property damage were reported.
But residents were left with task of cleaning up broken bottles and other rubbish early on Sunday.
Sergeant Mooney said it was another timely warning of the perils of social media.
“I can’t say whether it was an open invitation or not, but the party was advertised on Facebook and grew from there,” he said.
“There will be some penalty notices issued to some of the party-goers for some of the street offences that occurred afterwards.
“We are still making some further enquiries.”
Police are unaware of any video circulating on social media of the incident to date.