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slodgedad
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)

Sal
30-05-2011, 16:26
Nutters!!! :crazy:

atlantico
30-05-2011, 16:29
stupid idiots, thats all I can say.


When I'm drunk, . . . . . . . I can only manage to dive into my bed ! Just !!

Bonnie1964
30-05-2011, 21:23
Scary!!!!:(

sunspot
30-05-2011, 21:28
Pure madness, no other words for it

Sal
30-05-2011, 21:34
What is it with these people who take ridiculous risks?
Can they not find other excitement in life? ???

lord_cheeseman
30-05-2011, 21:36
haha let nature solve this problem, there are only so many bellends out there!

Harmonicaman
30-05-2011, 21:37
Waters like concrete from this height if you don't hit it right...
http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy13/harmonicaman_photos/balconing.jpg

LindaD
30-05-2011, 22:37
Well that have-a-go hero looks like he's likely to do a belly flapper on contact - they must be nuts (or in his case lack of them when he lands!!!!)

kieraj
30-05-2011, 23:09
ha ha , they are always looking for the next thrill, I just feel sorry for their loved ones who have to sort out the mess they leave behind and their upset, selfish barstewards.

Jackie
30-05-2011, 23:35
There is always something that these idiots will think up. Talking to my cousin in Australia at the weekend and the latest 'fad' out there is 'planking', where idiots balance on their stomachs or backs lying flat like a 'plank' on anything from the top of traffic lights to the edge of buildings. She said so many youngsters have lost their lives doing it.

wen53
31-05-2011, 00:02
'Natural Selection' at work.

bonitatime
31-05-2011, 06:54
Not only is it dangerous but your holiday insurance tends not to cover falls from balconies.

Zara
31-05-2011, 09:04
Every one a parkour expert and not one called David Belle :wall:

Harmonicaman
31-05-2011, 16:51
Every one a parkour expert and not one called David Belle :wall:
Just googled that Zara, very interesting...:)

Zara
31-05-2011, 17:24
I only found out about it a while ago by reading a Jeff Abbott book, Adrenaline - where it was Sam Capra, the main characters, hobby.

MummyJ
31-05-2011, 18:19
a lad from were i grew up died 3 years ago in Ibiza doing this :cry: so sad and very lethal