I can’t decide whether this guy’s totally awesome or yet another tragic reminder of how just how glorious Australia isn’t. Either way, you’ve got to admire his cojones.
Sydney – An Australian teenager who held a wild house party which ended with police calling in air support was on Wednesday arrested over the incident, which is beginning to turn him into global cult figure.
Sixteen-year-old Corey Delaney had refused to return to his parent’s two-storey home in the Melbourne suburb of Narre Warren since the party he advertised on the Internet descended into mayhem on Saturday night.
Some 500 people turned up for the event and after neighbours called in the authorities, police cars and neighbours’ property were damaged and 30 officers, a helicopter and the dog squad were needed to subdue the revellers.
Delaney had also refused to take phone calls from his parents, telling national television on Tuesday night: “I haven’t really talked to them because every time they try to call, I don’t answer.”
But police caught up with the bleached-blonde youth, who has conducted all media interviews wearing oversized dark glasses with yellow frames, and he was arrested on Wednesday morning.
Delaney, who sported a hooded jacket left open to expose a bare chest and a pierced nipple for his TV interview, has won attention from around the world for his nonchalance in the face of police, public and parental anger.
On Tuesday, he was reportedly relaxing at a Melbourne beach with girls as his step-father described him as a “show pony” who needed to be punished, and appealed for him to come home.
The interview he conducted with an Australian current affairs show has been posted on the YouTube video website and has already attracted thousands of viewers, while his story has been broadcast around the world.
When the Nine Network interviewer asks Delaney what advice he would give to other teenagers thinking about hosting a party while their parents are away, he suggests he runs it for them.
And when she advises him to “go away and take a long hard look” at himself, he replies: “I have. Everybody has. They love it.”
Quite a story, isn’t it? I’d only wanted to post one or two paragraphs from the article, but they’re all fucking great. It doesn’t get better than this! He’s even starting to make money out of the whole thing.
Now…WATCH THE INTERVIEW!! Caution: television doesn’t get much better than this. Straight to the pool room!
God, the chick’s a fucking nightmare. She’s worse than a mom. Who the hell does she think she is? The Ayatollah? Corey Delaney (or Worthington it seems) is onto a good thing here and the idiot chick’s only helping him more than she realises. You want the t-shirt? Here it is! Corey’s totally putting out the whole Ferris Bueller/Van Wilder vibe here. But with an antipodean feel. I’m thinking Russell Crowe for the movie. It would be magnficent.