A teenage girl has laid a complaint with police after a mob of young men allegedly ripped her top down and groped her at the sold-out Our:House dance party at Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland on Friday night. The fun began when one of the members of the headline act, Major Lazer, told the crowd to take their clothes off. The girl alleged she was crammed in the mosh-pit when about 20 men ripped her top down and groped her entire body. She said the offenders were aged in their late teens and early 20s. Her sister's boyfriend tried to come to her rescue but was blocked by the crowd. "People like to make excuses and say it's because everybody is drunk, but it's not excusable," she said. "Our body is our own body and nobody is entitled to step over the mark. Consent is consent." The girl said she was eventually able to escape the mob of men, and left the stadium in a flood of tears. Realising her sister was still inside, the teenager went to police and asked to be let back in but was refused. Males should never think this sort of behaviour is acceptable. It just seems to be normalised in the generation coming through. It's bad enough that at the ripe old age of 27, I'm probably the youngest person alive to have even heard of Pam Dawber.
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