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The risky behaviour of schoolies has started with teenagers balcony hopping Credit: 7 New Sydney
Schoolie ‘balcony hopping’ at Gold Coast hotel
FOOTAGE of a teenager “balcony hopping” at a Gold Coast hotel has raised safety concerns at Schoolies.
A video of a girl climbing around the edge of a balcony several floors up at the Beachcomber Resort at Surfers Paradise was shared to Snapchat overnight.
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As the girl’s friends laugh from behind the camera, one can be heard saying “this isn’t going to be funny when she falls”.
A second separate incident shows a boy at the same resort dangling his legs from an awning and climbing along a ledge inside a room.
Four years ago a Brisbane teenager attending Schoolies plunged to her death from a balcony at Circle on Cavill, which sparked a new policy to lock all balconies during the week of celebrations.
In 2014 Beachcomber management decided to reopen the balconies after reportedly receiving backlash from teens.
Inspector Bruce Kuhn said climbing between hotel or apartment balconies is a “life-endangering act”.
“Police take this behaviour extremely seriously as a fall from a balcony can result in death,” he said.
He said if anyone is detected involved in “balcony hopping” police will act immediately.
“If someone is observed to climb between balconies police can charge those involved with the offence of unregulated high risk activity,” Insp Kuhn said.
But compared to the carnage filled first night of Schoolies celebrations, the wash up from overnight has been surprisingly tame.
The only nasty incident happened about 11pm, when a group of young men performing a Haka clashed with another group of boys.
The wild brawl was sparked when a blonde haired Schoolie walking past the group decided to mock the group’s movements.
Police were forced into action, pulling both the haka group and the blonde haired boy’s mates from the pile up as they tried their best to land wild haymakers.
That incident aside, police officers and Red Frogs workers have all privately told The Courier-Mail that the first two nights have been the quietest in recent memory.
QAS Senior Operations Supervisor Justin Payne said the number of Schoolies treated last night doubled, though the large majority of patients were treated for stepping on broken glass or intoxication.
“We have attended to 93 patients tonight, of those, four were taken for further treatment at Gold Coast University Hospital,” he said.
Police were called to handle one girl that overdosed on what was believed to be MDMA after she lashed out a paramedic.
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The first night of schoolies for 2016 has concluded with Police saying it has been a 'very safe start' on the Gold Coast. Courtesy: Sunrise/Channel 7
Originally published as Schoolie’s shock act on hotel balcony