On Friday, the mayor, Juan Amengual, and other councillors held a meeting with Lloyd Milen, the British Consul, and representatives of the hotel and tourist business sectors, including tour operators. Preventing balconing, the meeting concluded, depends on controlling the drinking of alcohol as much as possible and on ensuring that young holidaymakers aren't left on their own. It is said that most balconing incidents have occurred when then there haven't been others around.
In this respect, emphasis in future campaigns will continue to use messages given by former Magalluf bar worker, Georgia Hague, who lost a close friend because of a balcony fall. For her campaign, 'Don’t leave a friend behind', she was awarded a British Empire Medal in 2020 for services to the British community in the Balearics.
The first and only case of injury resulting from balconing in Mallorca this summer was in Can Picafort almost two weeks ago. A 31-year-old Briton fell from a second floor balcony at the Hotel Haiti; he was seriously injured.
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If somehow balconing is stopped, the idiots will find another outlet for their stupidity. Better to attack the root stimulus which is drink and drugs. Tighter controls on under-age drinking, drinking to excess, availability of drugs and so on. It's a longer term solution but the sooner it's started, the sooner normal service can be resumed.
Jeremy Ponsenby-SmytheExactly. The adaptable, quick and clever survive. Those in this case use corridors provided.
I think its just a form of natural selection.
Perhaps there needs to be a distinction made in your reporting in falls from balconies. One: jumping across balconies is balconing. Two: otherwise falling from a balcony is because the balcony rail/wall height is far too low, badly constructed and doesn’t meet any safety standards. ( if there were any). Either way there have been quite a few balcony related accidents and deaths this year. Certainly more than one MDB!