A SICK Facebook page has been set up to mock the deaths of tourists who have died falling from balconies in Mallorca.
The Spanish group, named ‘Balconing Mallorca’, includes a league table of nations showing how many people from each country have been hurt or killed playing a game called ‘balconing’.
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Balconing involves climbing between balconies, usually on the outside of a hotel, or jumping from one balcony into a swimming pool.
The chart awards a country one point for every person hurt and three points for every person killed.
The UK is currently top of the 2019 table with six points, given for three injuries and one death.
Brit Freddie Pring, a 20-year-old rugby player from Somerset, died in the early hours of June 7 this year after falling from a balcony at a hotel on the Spanish island of Magaluf.
Recent years have seen British tourists visiting certain Spanish resorts meet growing resistance from locals fed up with their rowdy behaviour and drunken antics.
A poster spotted in Barcelona last year read: “Dear Tourist, Did you know balconing…
- Prevents gentrification
- Improves neighbours’ quality of life
- Reduces the risk of heart disease
- Is LOTS of fun
#BalconingISFun”
The ‘Balconing Mallorca’ group says it wants balconing to be made an Olympic sport in time for the 2020 games in Tokyo.
A campaign post read: “‘Balconing’ has not only put Magaluf on the world map of risk sports but is also an effective catalyst of natural selection.
“Each year, a handful of drunken tourists choose to eliminate their genes from the evolutionary race, thus allowing the fittest – the least stupid, in this case – to occupy their biological niche.
“The solution to ‘balconing’ is more ‘balconing’.
“That is why we ask the International Olympic Committee to include ‘balconing’ as an Olympic sport in the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Games, where Japanese spectators can enjoy the capers, permanent paralysis and premature deaths of British jumpers, pioneers and true aces of this sport.”
Fifty people have backed the campaign on Change.Org.
Brits to have died in Magaluf in previous years include 19-year-old Natalie Cormack, who reportedly died after slipping while walking along a seventh-floor ledge outside an apartment block.
The block was a short walk from the well-known Punta Ballena Street, where thousands of Brits flock every summer.
Thomas Owen Hughes, 20, also died last year after jumping over a wall that lined a walkway not realising there was a 65-foot drop on the other side.
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