Bizarre Video of Woman's Alleged Galentine's Day Party Crashing Goes Viral

A strange video that shows one woman crashing her neighbor's Galentine's Day party has gone viral.

The video was posted to TikTok last week by Soph (@pooochiegirl), who wrote: "When a Karen breaks in and [trespasses] Galentine's Day. We pressed charges." Already, the video has racked up more than 13 million views and started a debate over breaking and entering laws in Texas, where the video was allegedly filmed.

At the beginning of the video, a woman can be seen sitting on a couch with her cellphone out. One of the girls in the apartment is standing over her, yelling, but it's not clear what they are arguing about because Soph replaced the video's original audio with music.

Eventually, the alleged trespasser is escorted out of the apartment, but she continues to argue with two of the party-throwers in the hallway.

In a follow-up video with original audio, the women hosting the Galentine's Day party can be heard repeatedly asking the woman to leave the home and to stop recording. The woman remains seated on the couch and even recommends getting the police involved.

Because viewers still didn't understand why the woman allegedly crashed the Galentine's Day party in the first place, Soph shared a "story time" video, in which she claimed the woman was upset because the party was too loud. But rather than make a noise complaint she "walked in, made herself at home" and began filming.

Eventually, Soph and her friends did call the police, but she didn't provide much information about how those conversations panned out.

Newsweek reached out to Soph for more information but did not hear back in time for publication.

In the small debate in the comments section over Texas's breaking and entering laws, some users argued that the women throwing the party had a right to use force against the woman who allegedly broke into the home.

"Like they literally had the right to blast her out the door and they DIDN'T," wrote D.

Others, however, said that the group of women acted appropriately, claiming that the "trespasser" would have had to have been a "threat" justifying using force against the neighbor.

"They have to have [ill] intent or be an immediate threat," claimed one TikTok user, who said that a "Karen recording is not a threat."

Texas Penal Code 9.31 allows a person to use force against another "when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect the actor against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful force."

In other words, "if someone is about to clock you, you are allowed to defend yourself with your hands...but don't expect the law to protect you if you bring a gun to that fist fight," explained Varghese Summersett PLLC, a Texas-based criminal defense law firm.

"Generally speaking, you can defend yourself with the same level of force that is being used against you," the law firm continued, adding that "verbal provocation alone is never a justification for the use of force."