1. Schoolies attendee shares dangerous act of ‘balcony hopping’ on social media platform Snapchat.
Footage has emerged of a teenager “balcony hopping” at a Gold Coast hotel while on schoolies.
In the vision obtained by the Seven Network, which was initally uploaded to Snapchat, the teenage girl climbs around the edge of a balcony several floors up at the Beachcomber Resort at Surfers Paradise. During the act her friends are heard saying, “this isn’t going to be funny when she falls”.
In 2012 a Brisbane teenager attending Schoolies plunged to her death from a balcony at Beachcomber. The resort then implemented a new policy where they would to lock all balconies during the week of celebrations.
But in 2014 Beachcomber management decided to reopen the balconies after reportedly receiving backlash from teens, The Courier Mail reports.
Inspector Bruce Kuhn said climbing between hotel or apartment balconies is a “life-endangering act”.
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.”
A second separate incident from this week’s schoolies shows a boy at the same resort dangling his legs from an awning and climbing along a ledge inside a room.
2. Australian woman arrested over international surrogate agency.
An Australian nurse has been arrested for allegedly running a surrogacy agency in Cambodia.
The 49-year-old nurse was arrested following an edict banning surrogacy.