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Imagine putting your vacation property up for an online rental site like booking.com or airbnb. What would be your worst nightmare? How about this situation. All of a sudden neighbors start calling you that 100 out of control teenagers are wrecking your house and you are tens of miles away.

That is what happened to the owner of a Melbourne villa rentable on booking.com who got a call from horrified neighbors at 7am in the morning saying her $836,000 house was being destroyed.

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Up to 100 party animals, who punched holes in walls and threw furniture onto the street, have trashed a short term rental property. <a href="https://twitter.com/LanaMurphy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LanaMurphy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/9News?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#9News</a> <a href="https://t.co/DBBurChRhL">pic.twitter.com/DBBurChRhL</a></p>— Nine News Melbourne (@9NewsMelb) <a href="https://twitter.com/9NewsMelb/status/993401919828717569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2018</a></blockquote>

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The owner, who was only identified as ‘Kelly’ told local media: “Neighbors called me at 7am and said they're there destroying all of your televisions and furniture and smashing it across the street.”

“It felt like I was watching my house burning down.”

One of Kelly’s shocked neighbors, Ms Naz Ire, said the party was so out of control that she called police: “They started turning up in car loads at about 9pm. I could hear loud noises of door slamming, glass smashing and people yelling. I couldn't sleep. They were jumping on a neighbour's car and throwing glass bottles.”

In a further twist, police stated they had no right to go in and check after neighbors had also alarmed them.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A property owner and police were forced to stand back while a gang of 150 violent teens smashed up yet another home in Melbourne.<br><br>Police were powerless to do anything, and the thugs got away with it.<br><br>Victoria's justice system at its weakest.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/springst?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#springst</a><a href="https://t.co/1I1uh5nZon">https://t.co/1I1uh5nZon</a></p>— Netz Melbourne (@netz_melb) <a href="https://twitter.com/netz_melb/status/993351355573022722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2018</a></blockquote>

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The owner claims that local police told her they “can't prove there is anything happening because they have no right to go in.”

Kelly explained: 'We said "can we go in?" And then they said "no, you can't, it's too dangerous for you to go in."

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The owner of a Footscray rental property trashed by more than 50 African youths was forced to watch the teenagers run riot, after police told her it was too dangerous to enter her own home. <a href="https://twitter.com/tdolling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tdolling</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/7News?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#7News</a> <a href="https://t.co/7NEmjqR6Q4">pic.twitter.com/7NEmjqR6Q4</a></p>— 7 News Melbourne (@7NewsMelbourne) <a href="https://twitter.com/7NewsMelbourne/status/993401449873735681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2018</a></blockquote>

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'We were saying "what can we do? We can't just stand here and watch our house being trashed." And they said "there is nothing you can do".'

Source:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/rental-property-trashed-in-wild-footscray-party/news-story/485b0a0ff4ba61333a4004784427f4a3