"Balconing"
Anybody heard of this? Drunken tourists, often English, according to local press, jump from balconies into the pool or try to cross from one balcony to another while "under the influence".
Over eight deaths so far this month. Perhaps this is a Darwinian natural selection phenomenon 
There are lots of items if you google it. These people are like lemmings in my opinion.
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Ohhhh, un par de tontos menos, qué pesar....
Yes - it was in an English edition of a local Malaga freebie newspaper this week. Bit like the UK practice called"tombstoning" where they jump off high cliffs or rocks into the sea. Or jumping off a bridge onto the roof of a moving train - can´t remember what it´s called. All drug and alcohol fuelled I think. We tend to stay away from the Spanish coast in August and stay up in the cool of the hills - mind you we´ve got 43 degrees today!
Enjoy Menorca!
We used to have a rockstar who did that for fun.
UNA MANIOBRA TEMERARIA Y PELIGROSA Charly García se tiró a una pileta desde un noveno piso
Voló veinte metros y cayó sobre el agua. Estaba en un hotel de Mendoza. Cuando regresó a Buenos Aires, el acoso periodístico lo ofuscó y comenzó a tirar objetos por la ventana de su departamento de Barrio Norte.
Wow. And I thought American college students were dumb. 
Pues sí, me quedé anonadada el otro día al verlo en le tele, realmente sorprendente las cosas que hace la gente. 
