It’s not really a thing about people committing suicide. It’s actually drunk idiots jumping out of balconies to try and land inside the pool of the hotel. Sometimes they aim well and find water, sometimes they aim less well and find whatever the hotel has besides the pool: concrete, a table… The balconing federation keeps track of each jump and assigns points based on height and result (the higher the jump, the more points; death gives also more points than injury). At the end of the season, they count the victims and declare which country won.
It’s also a joke around here to say that summer officially starts when the first idiot kills themselves by failing to land in a pool from the balcony.
It was dark the first time. It was dark the second time. When the deaths are already over the hundred and the injured well over two hundreds it becomes stupid and something to mock them about. Also, the federation doesn’t count accidental falls or other kind of injuries, it counts exclusively people jumping from the balconies to try and land in the pool of a hotel. At a certain point, you have to start mocking them.
But you can defend this all you want. You do you, I guess. 👍 I just think people lives being lost deserves respect. For every accidental death, it was their first death. Each person didn’t die so many times. Their families didn’t “get used to it”. Their families and friends will not “mock them”.
Maybe keep that in mind while defending this childish game. 🙏 There are survivors for every death.
We have different opinions. The first time a tourist decided it was fun to jump from a 3rd floor balcony to try and land on the pool (putting not only themselves but every other guest in danger) and died, it was a tragedy. After several hundred tragedies (counting not just deaths but also injuries) it becomes something to be pissed about because those assholes are endangering innocent people with their reckless behaviour. So yeah, of course they’ll be mocked. Because if even after several hundred people getting hurt for doing something as reckless as that, they keep coming and doing it, they deserve to be mocked.
If I forgot that every person makes this mistake for the first time, I’d also think like you. But your way of thinking assumes that every person who makes this mistake somehow should have magically learned from the previous tourist’s mistake.
It’s a very stupid mistake, don’t get me wrong. But it doesn’t make it less tragic IMO.
It’s like mocking a child for not knowing calculus when all their older siblings know it. “You didn’t learn it yet?! Bahaha.” 😒
It’s like mocking a child for not knowing calculus when all their older siblings know it. “You didn’t learn it yet?! Bahaha.”
Are we comparing a child not knowing calculus with drunk tourists that, after more than 300 accidents, keep jumping off a bloody balcony several (sometimes tens of) meters high to try to land inside a pool while endangering every other guest that’s in the pool? The first one was a tragic mistake. Several years and several hundreds “mistakes” later, I’d say they don’t give a damn about what happens to the other people in the hotel so of course they deserve to be mocked. The first one getting injured or killed was a tragedy, the 400th one is a selfish asshole that endangered innocent people and got what they asked for. Play stupid games, and all.
drunk tourists that, after more than 300 accidents
You are still doing the same thing. It’s like you’re saying the same tourist has been jumping to his death 300–400 times without learning his lesson. That’s not the reality.
It’s like mocking a child for not knowing calculus when all their older siblings know it.
No, it’s like mocking an adult for not knowing that plummeting three stories into concrete might be dangerous, when plenty of people have already died from it and it’s very well known.
By the time you’re old enough to do alcotourism, at least a few people should have mentioned to you that gravity can hurt. Hell, perhaps you’ve even fallen once or twice yourself
I’m not saying do anything about it. I’m just saying don’t be disrespectful. Because being disrespectful is an active thing to do in this case. If you do nothing, you won’t be disrespectful. 👍
Making a betting system or game around people dying is sick. I don’t care how you twist it.
Holy shit that’s dark.
It’s not really a thing about people committing suicide. It’s actually drunk idiots jumping out of balconies to try and land inside the pool of the hotel. Sometimes they aim well and find water, sometimes they aim less well and find whatever the hotel has besides the pool: concrete, a table… The balconing federation keeps track of each jump and assigns points based on height and result (the higher the jump, the more points; death gives also more points than injury). At the end of the season, they count the victims and declare which country won.
It’s also a joke around here to say that summer officially starts when the first idiot kills themselves by failing to land in a pool from the balcony.
It doesn’t really matter if it’s suicide or an accident, making a game of people dying is pretty fucking dark.
It was dark the first time. It was dark the second time. When the deaths are already over the hundred and the injured well over two hundreds it becomes stupid and something to mock them about. Also, the federation doesn’t count accidental falls or other kind of injuries, it counts exclusively people jumping from the balconies to try and land in the pool of a hotel. At a certain point, you have to start mocking them.
😐 No you do not. You do not have to do anything.
But you can defend this all you want. You do you, I guess. 👍 I just think people lives being lost deserves respect. For every accidental death, it was their first death. Each person didn’t die so many times. Their families didn’t “get used to it”. Their families and friends will not “mock them”.
Maybe keep that in mind while defending this childish game. 🙏 There are survivors for every death.
We have different opinions. The first time a tourist decided it was fun to jump from a 3rd floor balcony to try and land on the pool (putting not only themselves but every other guest in danger) and died, it was a tragedy. After several hundred tragedies (counting not just deaths but also injuries) it becomes something to be pissed about because those assholes are endangering innocent people with their reckless behaviour. So yeah, of course they’ll be mocked. Because if even after several hundred people getting hurt for doing something as reckless as that, they keep coming and doing it, they deserve to be mocked.
If I forgot that every person makes this mistake for the first time, I’d also think like you. But your way of thinking assumes that every person who makes this mistake somehow should have magically learned from the previous tourist’s mistake.
It’s a very stupid mistake, don’t get me wrong. But it doesn’t make it less tragic IMO.
It’s like mocking a child for not knowing calculus when all their older siblings know it. “You didn’t learn it yet?! Bahaha.” 😒
Are we comparing a child not knowing calculus with drunk tourists that, after more than 300 accidents, keep jumping off a bloody balcony several (sometimes tens of) meters high to try to land inside a pool while endangering every other guest that’s in the pool? The first one was a tragic mistake. Several years and several hundreds “mistakes” later, I’d say they don’t give a damn about what happens to the other people in the hotel so of course they deserve to be mocked. The first one getting injured or killed was a tragedy, the 400th one is a selfish asshole that endangered innocent people and got what they asked for. Play stupid games, and all.
You are still doing the same thing. It’s like you’re saying the same tourist has been jumping to his death 300–400 times without learning his lesson. That’s not the reality.
No, it’s like mocking an adult for not knowing that plummeting three stories into concrete might be dangerous, when plenty of people have already died from it and it’s very well known.
By the time you’re old enough to do alcotourism, at least a few people should have mentioned to you that gravity can hurt. Hell, perhaps you’ve even fallen once or twice yourself
I’m not saying it isn’t stupid, I’m just saying it’s still tragic. Two things can be true at once.
Dude, it’s like the Darwin Awards. You can’t do anything about it. Don’t like it? Move on.
I’m not saying do anything about it. I’m just saying don’t be disrespectful. Because being disrespectful is an active thing to do in this case. If you do nothing, you won’t be disrespectful. 👍
Making a betting system or game around people dying is sick. I don’t care how you twist it.
Stats this year have been low. https://www.balcon.ing/
“Federació Balear de Balconing” Absolutely hilarious 😂. I heard about the phenomenon from a Spanish colleague.
Edit: OMG, Brits are leading by a long shot !
Thankfully 🙏