Balcony-jumping craze: Most are drunk Brits

They're young, on holiday, drunk and sometimes high, and they decide to jump from their hotel or apartment balcony into the pool. But some miss and end up in hospital, ... or worse, dead.

The so-called balconing craze has taken off to such an extent in Spain's Balearic Islands that doctors at the Son Espases hospital in Palma de Majorca - a major trauma center - decided to study the phenomenon.

"It's endemic," said Xavier Gonzalez, head of surgery at the hospital who participated in the study.