Spanish youths in mass drink binge

[DeclinetoState]

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MADRID (Reuters) - Thousands of teenagers and students swarmed onto Spanish streets on Friday for mass drinking sessions, defying legislation introduced to stop the binges known as "botellones".

Police in the southern Spanish city of Granada said up to 25,000 people had gathered, causing the closure of a major road.

"We've never seen anything like this in Granada," a police spokesman told Reuters. "There's no doubt this is the biggest botellon in Spain ... there must be 20,000 to 25,000 people."
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[Riverboat]

Sounds like one helluva frat party.

[Maggie_T]

The concern is that if the police overreact, teenagers will just rebel all the more.
:rolleyes: So spank the little darlings all the more. Hard to go on drinking binges if you are shut up in a cell.


"We shouldn't over-dramatize the situation," leading newspaper El Pais said. "The difficulty is going to be to apply the law gently. Anything else will only light the fuse."

Oh of course. Perish the thought of being tough on the little darlings.

Over-dramatize? I think it pretty dramatic as it is. The fuse is already lit, cretins. And with the help of accelerants, it seems.

It's no good. As long as we have pussified, hand-wringing, crime-encouraging liberals all over the world, kids will continue to go from bad to worse ... and get away with it.

[ldb83]

:rolleyes: So spank the little darlings all the more. Hard to go on drinking binges if you are shut up in a cell.

Hard to shut 25,000 teenagers up in a cell for doing something that's legal.

It's no good. As long as we have pussified, hand-wringing, crime-encouraging liberals all over the world, kids will continue to go from bad to worse ... and get away with it.

Nothing's really getting worse. Spaniards have been drinking like this for a long time. It's a generally accepted part of their culture.

[Eagle1]

did they really think they could say, "ok kids, you can have 7 beers but not 8"

as long as it is legal at all there will be binge drinking. let the parents deal with it, either they get involved and the kids learn or there will be a few less socialist spaniards around

[Maggie_T]

Hard to shut 25,000 teenagers up in a cell for doing something that's legal.

Nothing's really getting worse. Spaniards have been drinking like this for a long time. It's a generally accepted part of their culture.

No, it's not. I've been to Spain and I have several Spanish friends. Even a Spanish relative-by-marriage. They drink, of course. But this excess is not part of their culture.

See Idb? There you go again, like the typical liberal, trying to excuse extreme behavior.

And then, you whine because we say that liberals support/excuse/justify all sorts of perversions. :licky:

[Unity]

Ooh, I'm going to Barcelona shortly. Sounds like I'll be having fun there. :D

[DeclinetoState]

Having read some of your posts, Unity, one might think you've already started.

:grin:

[ldb83]

No, it's not. I've been to Spain and I have several Spanish friends. Even a Spanish relative-by-marriage. They drink, of course. But this excess is not part of their culture.

I have also been to Spain, have Spanish friends, and went to college for a term there. I have been to botellones and have seen how Spaniards drink, as well as how the the older generations of Spaniards react to this type of drinking, and at least in the parts I visited, it was never treated with the type of stiff conservatism that we have here in the U.S. or on this forum. It was generally accepted where I was. Maybe the parts of Spain with which you're familiar are a bit different, but that's my experience.