Bakersfield Beer Bashers Strike Again; Trash Another Vacant House During Unruly Party

In California, The Bakersfield Californian reports on another recent beer bash in a vacant house:

• Leticia Avila’s blood pressure plummeted when she saw what partyers had done to her south Bakersfield home. Blood and spray paint stained her upstairs bedroom. Beer bottles littered the kitchen. Her fence had been partially torn down and many of her windows shattered. The scene was all the more shocking to Avila because she had put the home up for sale only about a month before, and was living just a few blocks away when police and neighbors say a large, unruly party broke out at the house. By the time police arrived to break it up, a young man had been beaten unconscious and two others were badly hurt.

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• Youths partying in vacant houses is nothing new. What’s new, local authorities and real estate people say, is that the troubled housing market has widened the selection of empty homes, and so the parties are taking place in nicer, larger homes in more affluent neighborhoods.

For more, see Party vigilance falls to neighbors.

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