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Since this is actually my alma mater, I'm fairly familiar with the whole story.
The owner of the house has said that damage included two cut-down trees, a destroyed footbridge, ruined carpeting, extensive smoke damage from an outside bonfire and water damage from a broken water pipe.
They absolutely did not do $500,000 worth of damage to the house. In several earlier stories about the incident, the owner has said damage totaled about $20,000.
I'm not trying to defend what the guys did, but I do want to say that from what I've read and heard, the property owner has been rather shady in this whole debacle. His statements have changed several times, he refused to provide the fraternity or the university with a detailed list of damages and now he's suing for 25 times the actual damages even though the members paid to repair the carpets and the footbridge.
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