'Balconing' accidents jump on Spain's holiday isles - Feature | Earth Times News: "- Hotel balconies on Spain's Balearic islands are dangerous, it seems. Ambulances on Majorca and Ibiza dash off several times a week after holidaymakers go over railings and plunge to the ground.
Faulty construction is not to blame for the terrible spate of accidents, though. The cause is youthful recklessness fueled by alcohol and drugs.
The scenario is almost always the same. A group of young tourists return to their high-rise hotel in high spirits after an evening of bar and disco hopping. Then, on a dare, someone leaps towards a ground-level swimming pool or nearby balcony, or swings Tarzan-like from balcony to balcony.
So far this summer more than 30 people have had accidents playing this dangerous game, known in Internet forums as 'balconing.' At least four have been killed - eight, according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
Most of the victims are Britons between the ages of 18 and 25. Occasionally they are young Germans or Spaniards."
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