Just days after a young German holiday maker fell to his death from the fourth floor of a hotel in the Playa de Palma in Mallorca, the Guardia Civil has reported that last month they arrested a drunk 22-year-old British man in the early hours of the morning of April 29 after having been involved in several altercations in the street and in a hotel in Arenal d’en Castell, Menorca, where he had been jumping between balconies despite the fact that he was not even staying there.
Drunk Briton arrested for hotel balcony jumping
Tourist fell from the first floor of hotel he was not staying at
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I don't know when the Germans started that sport, but in past years, it's never been a German thing. Now I've seen a few reports of it in Arenal. Magaluf used to be the drunken tourist balcony death capitol of the world. Thank god that's been toned down to a precious few nowadays. This one was lucky. Others not so. And it makes me sick to think about what it does to their families.
There are now stickers appearing around Palma which say "Go home and balcony there. Die in your own country." Clearly the locals have had their fill of picking up the pieces of tourists who think jumping from balconies is the new Olympic sport. Since most of the jumpers appear to be either German or British, and being British myself, fellow nationals are tarred with the same stupid brush which is embarrassing. The Spanish people I know just shake their heads in disbelief and puzzlement at these jumping morons.
A good way to get the tourist numbers down would be to deport and ban rubbish like this. And as the UK is no longer in the EU it shouldn't be a problem.