He held a party that wound up trashing his parent's home. And now he's emerged in a position beyond his wildest dreams. We recently told you about 16-year-old Corey Delaney, who put up a MySpace notice about a bash he was throwing at his parents' Melbourne, Australia home while his mother and father were on vacation.
More than 500 teens showed up, followed soon after by a large number of police officers. The event turned into a riot, with kids throwing bottles at the cops and doing major damage to Delaney's and his neighbours' homes. Authorities arrested the boy and were contemplating making him pay up to $18,000 for all the carnage.
The unrepentant teen left home to avoid his folk's wrath but refused to apologize for his actions. And in these days when no bad deed seems to go unpunished, the kid may actually be rewarded for his actions. His story became so famous worldwide that he's actually left school, abandoned plans to become a carpenter and hired an agent for his new job: party planner.
He'll be 'hosting' two more blow-outs in Sydney and Brisbane over the next two months, as well as another in his hometown on March 21st - the day he turns 17. Delaney remains as arrogant as ever about his new endeavour. "I've got a manager, life's good," he told an Aussie TV station.
Just how good? Consider this: his agent, Max Markson, suggests his client could make nearly Cdn$90,000 from his party efforts and become a rich man - er -boy, within a few short years, although Markson would take 20 per cent of that haul.
"He did a great party in the wrong place," the veteran agent explains. "We're going to put on a great party in the right place."
Still, not everyone's happy about the teen titan. Web sites condemning his actions and attitude have sprung up all over the country, with one (pictured, top left) allowing Corey-haters to "slap him down the street." So far, more than 700,000 have responded. (You can get your licks in here.)
But Markson insists the boy is actually contributing to society with his latest move, because he'll have to pay taxes on the money he makes from this venture. "His family has taken him back," he points out. "He's 16 and left school. He's got to work."
And at such a tender age, he's managed to figure out how to combine all work and all play. Which, despite what some see as his bad attitude, maybe doesn't make him quite so obnoxious after all.
