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30-05-2011, 15:54
SPANISH hotels are concerned about the balconing craze, popular with drunken British tourists, which left 10 dead in 2010 and three seriously injured so far this year.
Balconing is all about jumping from an apartment or hotel balcony on to another below or beside it - or, more commonly, into the swimming pool.
Numerous youths have been caught on security camera leaping into the pool from several storeys up.
One of the three injured people so far this year includes a 19-year-old British national, who was kept in hospital with multiple bruising and a broken arm.
He jumped from a seventh-floor hotel room, but missed the swimming pool altogether.
Fortunately, he landed on a sunbed, which probably saved his life.
Last Thursday a 36-year-old Swedish tourist was rushed to intensive care after plunging from the third floor of his hotel and landing on the roof of the dining hall.
Canarian Weekly (http://www.canarianweekly.com/localNews3290.html)
Balconing is all about jumping from an apartment or hotel balcony on to another below or beside it - or, more commonly, into the swimming pool.
Numerous youths have been caught on security camera leaping into the pool from several storeys up.
One of the three injured people so far this year includes a 19-year-old British national, who was kept in hospital with multiple bruising and a broken arm.
He jumped from a seventh-floor hotel room, but missed the swimming pool altogether.
Fortunately, he landed on a sunbed, which probably saved his life.
Last Thursday a 36-year-old Swedish tourist was rushed to intensive care after plunging from the third floor of his hotel and landing on the roof of the dining hall.
Canarian Weekly (http://www.canarianweekly.com/localNews3290.html)