From the Daily Mail:
More than 300 people ran riot and destroyed an award-winning garden after they responded to a campaign for a mass water fight on social networking website Facebook.[...]
Leeds City Council claim around 350 people armed with water pistols and buckets trashed the garden, which scooped a bronze medal at the 2004 Chelsea Flower Show and is a symbol of the city's enduring partnership with Nelson Mandela and his hometown of Durban.[...]
Videos and pictures of people destroying the garden have been posted on the Facebook site and footage has also featured on YouTube [link]. Organisers even boast of the "success" of their "event", the council said.
Plants were trampled, turf ripped up, water features emptied and filled with foam and the mechanism for the fountains is thought to have been damaged during the rampage.
Link: The moment award-winning garden is destroyed after hundreds respond to Facebook water fight,
via Smart Mobs, The Register.
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