Hundreds Of Teens Trash Home Of Ex-NFL Player
COOPER: Welcome back. Imagine being in Florida and discovering that your beautiful home in New York is being overrun by hundreds of teenagers who broke in, they're drinking, partying, trashing the place. It happened to Brian Holloway, a former NFL player. He found out what's going on through social media because some of the teens were actually tweeting as it was happening. Someone posted this photo of three girls at the party. We're blurring their faces. Another photo showed someone standing on top of a table or counter top and the photos go on and on. Holloway estimates the damage to his property runs into the thousands of dollars. While the police are involved, incredibly, he wants to turn this incident into a positive, he says, to teach the teens that what they did wasn't fun and games their behavior was wrong. Here's Randi Kaye.</s>RANDI KAYE, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's Labor Day weekend, Brian Holloway is about 1,200 miles away from his farmhouse in upstate New York when he learns there's a party going on there and he wasn't even invited. Confused? Holloway is too. As he watches it all unfold in realtime on his Twitter feed. Holloway is in Tampa, Florida, on this night. When his son and a friend start funneling him tweets from the partygoers. Mugging for the camera, taking selfie photos in the bathroom and dancing on the kitchen counter all from inside Holloway's house.</s>BRIAN HOLLOWAY, FORMER NFL PLAYER: We started listening to these tweets, I can't believe we're in the house, I can't believe how we trashed it. I can't believe how much alcohol is here. We're going to be partying for three days. I can't believe she's passed out. Look at her over there, this is an amazing night. I can't believe, you know, they're on meth. Give me some of the drugs.</s>KAYE: Some of the more memorable tweets, yes, it's like so trashed, cannot get over this. Did a keg stand and yes, mom, I went to a party and got drunk. But, at least I'm not a meth addict, right? In all, 300 teenagers are at Holloway's home causing at least $20,000 in damage. They tear the place apart, punching holes in walls, spraying graffiti everywhere, scratching the floors with kegs, even urinating inside, and through it all, stupidly documenting nearly all of their antics. They also help themselves to whatever isn't nailed down including this statue of an eagle which had been on Holloway's grandson's headstone. Desperate to save his home, Holloway, a former NFL player with the New England Patriots quickly calls police who rush over. When they arrive, more tweets from the uninvited guests. Busted or not, it was still the best party in the 518 of the summer. Crazy night and pigs showed up with canines and I was out, yo. (on camera): What makes this even worse, Brian Holloway, recognizes many of the teens partying at his house. They're friendly with his son and have been to the house before when Holloway was there and invited them. The teenagers slept overnight and Holloway would make them burgers and hotdogs and hundreds of pancakes in the morning. At those parties, he says, there was never any alcohol or drugs.</s>HOLLOWAY: The window, this window was just replaced today.</s>KAYE (voice-over): Now back at his home, Holloway is getting it repaired, and you might say getting even. He's turning the tables on these teenagers and teaching them a thing or two about the power of social media. On his newly minted web site, helpmesave300.com, Holloway posts tweets identifying about 200 or so teens from the party. It's not out of spite, he says, but a call for action to turn the moment into a movement, create a dialogue about teens behaving badly and drugs. But some parents are actually upset with Holloway's postings.</s>HOLLOWAY: I don't know how to respond to a mother that says I'm mad at you because you put my son's picture up there. I'm going, well, actually he's at my house and he's robbing and breaking in and drinking and doing drugs and -- and you're upset with me posting the picture that he posted upon Twitter.</s>COOPER: This is unbelievable the story. First of all, how lame is it that someone tweeted the 518.</s>KAYE: Dude.</s>COOPER: Please, is that upstate New York somewhere?</s>KAYE: They thought they were cool doing this.</s>COOPER: Yes, man, the 518, rocking it, keeping it real. That's how we roll in New York or whatever.</s>KAYE: Exactly. You're going to get calls now.</s>COOPER: I've been there. I'm sure it's lovely. But anyway, I digress. He's giving these kids other opportunities.</s>KAYE: Yes, I mean, he's really reaching out trying to do the right thing. He actually invited all of the partygoers to his house not only to help clean up but also to own up to what they'd done. Anderson, out of all those kids, 300 kids, only one person --</s>COOPER: Are you kidding me? And they knew him, and they knew his son.</s>KAYE: Knew his family, knew his son.</s>COOPER: And so they break into -- did he not have an alarm system.</s>KAYE: They used ladders, broke in through the windows, they came in. One person shows up, he says that's a slap in the face.</s>COOPER: I can't believe that.</s>KAYE: But on a bright note, that eagle statue I mentioned in the story that came from his grandson's headstone. That was returned. It seems as though maybe one person -- I know, one person maybe they discovered they had a conscience.</s>COOPER: And the parents are getting mad he showed their faces?</s>KAYE: I thought his point was excellent. They broke into my house and you're upset I'm posting their tweets that they took from inside my house while they were partying? And I also want to point out, no arrests, the sheriff is still investigating.</s>COOPER: Really?</s>KAYE: Yes.</s>COOPER: Wow. Unbelievable. Randi, thanks very much.</s>KAYE: Sure.</s>COOPER: What a nightmare? Up next, a new twist in a kidnapping of a Georgia teenager, what police have learned about the connection between the girl's mom and one of the suspects?