Normally, a story about teenagers getting drunk and trashing a place wouldn’t be particularly noteworthy, except to remind everybody that it’s Friday night. Still, if there’s one thing you can count on to make news, even when it comes to everyday teenage behavior, it’s sweet, delicious hypocrisy.

Drunken teenagers at a party funded by a high school’s anti-drink-driving group have trashed a rural Southland hall.

Bottles were thrown at passing cars and into a children’s playground during the out-of-control party, organised by high school pupils using money from the St Peter’s College SADD (Students Against Driving Drunk) committee, last Friday.

Damage to the Waimumu Hall, near Gore, has disgusted locals and prompted police to warn parents against providing alcohol to young people going to parties, The Southland Times reported today.

It’s the little things in life that amuse me, I have to say…