U2's Larry Mullen hosted a party on a Sydney beach which sparked a police and helicopter search for a ''missing'' person.
According to the Sydney Herald, Mullen and his family hosted a barbecue at a house on Bilgola Beach and just before it got dark, one of the guests left a surf board on the beach.
Lifesavers at the local surf club found the abandoned yellow board near the waterline and contacted Water Police at Broken Bay, fearing a person was missing in the surf.
A Water Police spokesman yesterday confirmed it had sent a launch to Bilgola Beach and that the Air Ambulance was involved in the night-time search: ''The launch and the helicopter undertook quite a significant search for quite a period of time.''
Guests included U2's singer Bono and his wife Ali Hewson and their children, as well as band members The Edge and Adam Clayton.
