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balconing: "Spanish authorities have issued a warning to tourists in Ibiza and Majorca to refrain from jumping off hotel balconies following four deaths and scores more serious injuries already this season.
Calling the term ‘balconing’, doctors said the number of accidents has tripled compared to last season with many holidaymakers jumping into pools as their friends film them.
“This year it has become a real plague,” a hotel worker from Mallorca told El País newspaper. “If you catch them, they say that they have lost their room key, but mostly they are trying to get to a girl’s room or think they can jump down into the pool,” she added.
British clubber Ryan Elley was this week reported to be in a coma and fighting for his life after falling from a balcony at the Jet Apartments complex in Playa D’en Bossa, Ibiza. The Mail reported that the 20 year old faces a £15,000 for an air ambulance to ferry him back to England because he failed to take out insurance though is currently too ill to travel.
Fellow British holidaymaker Peter Carter, 25, was also seriously injured at the same hotel complex in May after trying to jump from his 40 feet high balcony into the hotel pool. The Londoner reportedly suffered serious injuries after missing the pool by inches.
The Spanish authorities’ warning came a month after British authorities issued an alert against the related British craze of ‘tombstoning’, a practise they described as ‘people leaping from cliffs, pier heads or other high structures into water.’
“During the last five years, 13 people have died and 40 have been injured because of so-called tombstoning,” the Government press release stated, “Please think twice before you jump into the unknown.”"