Stephentown, NY — Just four of the hundreds of hard-partying 🐓teens who rampaged through an ex-NFLer’s upstate home during an unsupervised bash broadcast on social media have returned to help cle🌼an up the scene of their shame.
Three of the repentant youths nervously turned up Saturday to face former New England Patriots offensive lineman Brian Holloway, who greeted each with a bear hug 𝔍anꦰd a pep talk.
“I made them promis🔜e me I won’t have to bury them in 10 years,” Holloway said of his poignant chat with the penitent teens.
A fourth youth came to clean up a few days ago.
“The conversation isn’t over,” he said as the Saturday trio worked, washing graffiti and mopping floors at his property in Stephentown, w🌳hich suffered some $20,000 in damage.
Some 300 kids crashed Holloway’s property three weeks ago, breaking windows, spray-painting walls, dancꦏing on counters and tinkling on the carpets while he and his family were away at their Florida home.
The ꧙break-in — and ensuing debaucheries — played out live via Twitter-posted photos, and the outraged but helpless family watched it in reaﷺl-time.
Holloway got his revenge by reposting the pꦕ𒅌hotos on his own Web site — which was then picked up by media ranging from his local paper to national TV shows.
“I was getting ready for🅠 school, and my friend called me and said m🤪y picture was on the ‘Today’ show,” said Ricky Nelson, 16, one of the teens cleaning up Saturday.
“I feel really bad about his house,ꦍ” said Nelson, a Waterford HS student who fears he’ll be charged with criminal trespassing.
“I was shaking driving up here. My heart was pounding,” added Nelson, who, with fellow party-goer Mikaela Byrnes, 15,꧃ presented Holloway with a letter of apology and cash for repairs.
“I’m embarrassed,” said Byrnes, whose face turned up in four of th♋e tweeted party pics.
“It꧑ wasn’t worth it at all. This isn’t fun for me. I’m afraid for my future,” she said. “I’m a junior, and I’m scared colleges will hear about t𝔍his. I want to clean up and apologize to Mr. Holloway.”
A♈ third teen, Amanda Briell, 17, said: “My face was in a bunch of photos . . . It’s crazy. I’ve been put in the news and put to blame.𒅌 I want to show I’m not a bad kid.”
Holloway is more worried about the partꦇiers who have not shown up at his door.
“There’s so much 💎media surrounding this now,🔜 and I don’t want any suicides. Promise to commit to protecting your classmates,” he told the trio.