Keep your shirt on in Mallorca or pay the fine
Foreign Office warning for British tourists in Spain
Keep your shirt on when away from the beaches. | Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter
Palma16/03/2024 12:12
If you are coming to Mallorca this summer, don’t forget that you could be hit with a £500 fine for walking around the streets in just your swimming shorts or a bikini.
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Do you think those 2 pathetic dwebes in the photo know how stupid they look? Yeah probably not.
The shirt thing is "iffy". I'm not sure what the motivation would be, particularly in beachfront areas. But perhaps the British government is trying to somehow encourage improving the sordid reputation of "Brits abroad"? Or maybe trying to scare Brits away frim Spain as a "punishment" for not allowing Brits to do whatever they please? It's a mystery. However, being fined for "balconing"? That's clearly an affront to a British national sport. Do they fine them more of they're drunk out of their minds? Greedy barstewards. Fine then.
It's a truly damning indictment on society in 2024 that the island has to threaten its tourists with fines for not being dressed in the city, drinking alcohol while walking around and blind-faith jumping off high-up hotel room balconies. What are we coming to when there are so many cases of one or all of such idiotic antisocial behaviour that the Councils across Mallorca and the mainland feel it necessary to impose heavy penalties on these offending visitors. Where might we go from here? Fines for using your hands instead of cutlery in restaurants, for urinating at will in the streets, for littering......? The very existence of fines for anti-social behaviour rather than relying on visitors to know what's right and what's wrong is a depressing downwards spiral into the dark abyss of depravity.
If it stops the scanky mob from slobbing about town in their budgies or bikinis, great.