[quote]LOS ANGELES — In the age of Facebook and Twitter, a new crime has hit America: “Sharpie parties,” gatherings of party revelers armed with “Sharpie” magic markers and lured by social media invitations to wreak havoc on foreclosed homes. Five years into the US foreclosure crisis, Sharpie parties are a new form of blight on the landscape of boarded-up homes, brown lawns and abandoned streets. They are also the latest iteration of collective home-trashing spurred by social media. At least six Sharpie parties were reported in one California county in recent months, where invitations posted online drew scores to foreclosed homes. The partygoers are handed Sharpie pens on arrival by their hosts and urged to graffiti the walls – a destructive binge that often prompts other acts of vandalism including smashing holes in walls and doors, flooding bathrooms and ripping up floors. Andy Krotic, a Californian realtor, said: “It’s a growing fad among young black teens, especially the Twitter crowd. They throw a big party, everyone gets a Sharpie, and they are invited to write on the walls and spray paint.” They drank alcohol, scrawled profanities on walls, smashed glass, tore up parts of the house and left garbage strewn everywhere.[/quote]THEY CLIMBIN' IN YO WINDOWS SNATCHIN' YO PEOPLE UP TRYNA WREK YO HOUSE SO YOU BETTA HIDE YO KIDS HIDE YO WIFE AND HIDE YO HUSBAND TOO CAUSE THEY KNOCKIN' OUT EVERYBODY UP IN THIS