Five thousand British students spark outrage with drunken spring break in Spanish seaside resort

 

 

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Last updated at 5:20 PM on 31st March 2010

 

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Thousands of British students have sparked outrage in a Spanish seaside resort during a drunken spring break.

Around 5,000 youngsters have gathered on the Costa Dorada for a five-day festival of late night-drinking and debauchery.

'Saloufest' promotes itself as a sporting event, but locals have been shocked by the alcohol-fueled antics of many of the 18 to 23-year-olds.

Just 24 hours after the partying started in the town of Salou, nine people had been treated by paramedics for drunkenness, with five of those requiring hospital treatment for alcohol poisoning.

 

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Girls warm up for the night's festivities on a beach at Salou this week

 

 

Conga line! Drunken Britons parade through the town of Salou at this year's 'sporting event' in Spain

 

 

 

Tutu much? It's just enough to amuse British students as they enjoy the late night debauchery and fancy dress

 

One young man broke his leg when he was accidentally run over by a police patrol car, and residents say they have woken to found the streets covered in vomit and urine.

Spanish newspapers and TV stations have shown pictures of drunken Britons rampaging through the town in fancy dress or in their underwear, exposing their private parts and their buttocks.

'This kind of drunken tourism is deplorable.' Local council

 

'Only nine people treated by alcohol problems out of 5,000? Tonight we have to beat that.'

British student

 

'Of course it is drunken tourism, but they are good clients.'

Hotel owner

 

They said the students were attracted by the promise of cheap beer, free shots and easy sex.

The event, which has been running since 2002, started on Sunday and ends tomorrow. A second leg takes place from 1 to 6 of April.

Students from more than 100 UK universities pay between £195 and £329 to attend, depending on their transport and accommodation.

Many residents told local newspapers they were disgusted by the behaviour of the Britons.

Jaime Corbella said: 'This is unprecedented, I've never seen such behaviour in my life.'

Antonio Tejado said: 'They should be allowed to have fun, they're young, but the should not behave like this in the street.'

Aurelio Langa added: 'Who thinks it's okay for 500 kids to be running about in their underwear, shouting in the street at 1am? Where are the police?'

 

Sporting event: Britons pose in their underwear at last year's Saloufest

 

 

 

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Mapping out the debauchery: The sporting event's website shows the locations of the various bars

 

Maria Gomez, spokeswoman for a local residents' association, said: 'This morning the streets were full of vomit. This kind of drunken tourism is deplorable.'

Dozens of students took part in an underwater sangria drinking competition, won by a business studies student from the University of Portsmouth who gave his name as Erik.

He said: 'We came here to play sports, but only with a hangover. Spain is our spring break.'

The tourism industry in Spain has had a disastrous year as the recession has seen bookings drop by around 16 per cent.

Resorts dependent on British visitors, like Salou, have been particularly hard-hit, as holidaymakers travelling from the UK get fewer euros for the pounds.

The town hall in Salou, which lies 70 miles south of Barcelona and has a population of 27,000, defended the event.

Sleepy: A girl huddles in a sleeping bag on the street at this year's festival

 

 

British, we presume? More students make it clear what they think of the camera at this year's Saloufest

 

A spokesman said: 'They are university students, not hooligans. It is a leisure break based around sports. The night-time activities of the students have not caused any major disorder, but there have been noisy group activities and minor incidents.'

Some hoteliers also defended the students. Jaume Orteu, manager of the Playa Park hotel where 600 Britons are staying, said: 'Of course it is drunken tourism, but they are good clients.'

The bars in Salou shut at around 3am, but many of the students stay up until dawn drinking in the street.

Danny Anderson, 20, studying engineering at London's Brunel University, was out drinking for 18 hours non-stop. He told a reporter from the national newspaper El Pais: 'Only nine people treated by alcohol problems out of 5,000? Tonight we have to beat that.'

Another student said: 'I only drink vodka after dark. I wish we had bars like this in London.'

Two years ago a similar event in the resort of Calella, 30 miles north of Barcelona on the Costa Maresme, sparked a similar reaction.

 

The mayor of Calella, Josep Maria Juhe, said then: 'These students do not behave like civilised human beings and we don't want them here.'

 

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Danny Anderson, 20, studying engineering at London's Brunel University, was out drinking for 18 hours non-stop. He told a reporter from the national newspaper El Pais: 'Only nine people treated by alcohol problems out of 5,000? Tonight we have to beat that.

 

After 18 hours drinking, I commend him on his sense of wit. Of course to the Daily Mail it wasn't a joke, to them, university students actually want to get alcohol poisoning and those students get high fives as they walk out the hospital doors.

 

The irony is in the quote, 9 people who've drank too much out of 5,000 is fucking nothing, not news worthy at all.

 

 

I mean look at these bitches, how dare they have such fun! I think that's the appropriate position for when they return to Britain, and be lined up and shot.

^It's still nine people too many, though. What a state to get in.:dozey:

You're missing the point, it has nothing to do with the number 9, the article is giving the impression that students have swamped the place, literally, with urine and vomit, in reality, nothing has happened. Nothing.

 

It may be some form of news for people in Salou who deal with it yearly, but the DM is giving the impression that Britain should be ashamed.

Future leaders of Great Britain.

You're missing the point, it has nothing to do with the number 9, the article is giving the impression that students have swamped the place, literally, with urine and vomit, in reality, nothing has happened. Nothing.

 

It may be some form of news for people in Salou who deal with it yearly, but the DM is giving the impression that Britain should be ashamed.

 

That's probably because they have a point.:dozey:

Drunken revelry! Alas!

 

 

Pacifiers! What look like adult nappies! Some guy with his hands down his adult nappy-esque underwear! Some with PRETEND CAPES!

^ the dude with his hand down his pants

.....my eyes:embarrassed:

 

and this sounds..... like......nothing actually

 

this is like, the weak version of Miami or Cancun spring break

there are always skanks getting wasted on spring break

why is this even news?

^ the dude with his hand down his pants

.....my eyes:embarrassed:

 

T'was my reaction :disappointed:

 

EDIT - I SEE BABY BIBS. THEY MUST BE SLAIN FOR THIS ATROCITY!!!

Where's all the tit-flash pics!? If the Daily Mail were out there surely they got a few minge shots!? It's a disgrace!!!

^like that would be a good thing?

The guy with his hands down his pants has the most disgusting facial expression I've ever seen.

^like that would be a good thing?

 

 

 

Of course it would.

Of course it would.

 

 

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WANT

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Wait, so 5000 people are being treated as irresponsible, suicidally drunken idiots because of all of that 5000, 0.18% of them went too far. Less than 0.2%!!! Um that's statistically nothing. Any typical frosh week party usually has more like 10% maybe 20% that are nearly that bad? A lot.

 

Sounds to me like somewhere roughly between 3000 and 4990 mature, responsible vacationers/partiers deserve a pat on the back and an apology from the Daily Mail. (Bwahaha :laugh3: Like that's ever going to happen. :rolleyes:)

I think you're missing the point Cadet, 9 is still too many :smug:

 

So even if there was 100 million kids partying in Salou, as long as 1 of them gets alcohol poisoning then they are all little bastards and should be ashamed ;)

No the point is that the prunes editing the Daily Mail forgot how to have any sort of fun at all, clean or otherwise, so they don't think anyone else should either.

 

By shaming anyone who doesn't come across as perfect, bland, and perfectly conforming they can remake the entire planet in their morose clone-like image and rule the world as supreme leaders, accepting every sigh of deep unfulfillment as holy sacrifices to their godhood. That's the point. :smug: It's a conspiracy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...because seriously. They can't possibly be that constipated, can they?

Daily Fail

Only one African American in all those pictured people.

 

Oh well, now The Daily Mail can't say they're not diversified.