Costa Brava town bans penis suits and sex dolls from stag and hen dos
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Platja d’Aro announces fines up to €1,500 for appearing in public ‘with clothing representing human genitals’
  • tsonfeir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    263·
    7 months ago

    a ban that was introduced several years ago in Barcelona to little effect as offenders are mainly tourists who fly home without paying the fines.

    So you make them pay before leaving jail.

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      7 months ago

      Or provide collateral. And chuck them on a wanted list for the EU. If they ever return, they get detained and have to pay and sent home.

      I’m pretty sure dutch tourists will just get the fined forwarded to them through the CJIB (the Dutch fine collection authority). So fleeing the country does not help.

        • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          7 months ago

          And we talking people skipping out on paying fines they deserve.

          If it where up to me I’d allow the Guardian civil beat anyone in an inflated penis suit, untill the whole thing was flaccid and they could pour the occupant out through one of the airholes… but that’s just me.

      • tsonfeir@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        7 months ago

        Looking it up, the fine is UP TO €300 in Barcelona. They could say “pay now, get 50% off, pay later and pay the full 300”

        • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          7 months ago

          Or vice versa… now is 300 of we have to collect in the uk via a collection agency it will be 450.

          I’ll bet plenty of collection agencies will collect that for 100 euro

  • dumblederp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    No Bucks/Hens nights was one of my rules as a pub bouncer. It’s always trouble. It’s mostly a group of friends out for a piss up and extremely bad behaviour at the expense of other patrons enjoyment.

  • HelixDab2@lemm.eeEnglish
    34·
    6 months ago

    The bylaws also prohibit going shirtless or in a bikini in areas away from the beach, a ban that was introduced several years ago in Barcelona to little effect as offenders are mainly tourists who fly home without paying the fines.

    That’s easy to solve. You confiscate the passport until the fine is paid. Or arrest them and hold them without bond as a flight risk. The last time I got a speeding ticket–about 15 years ago, I think–I was in Ohio, and driving home to Illinois. The cop took my license, and said they’d mail it back once I paid the fine.

    Quick edit: I’m not talking about cash bail here; that’s a separate issue. Bond can be refused when a suspect is deemed to be unlikely to show up for court, such as the suspect being a foreign national. This happens regularly, and isn’t particularly controversial. A person that is a citizen and resident of a foreign country is very likely to skip out on criminal penalties, therefore they shouldn’t be permitted to leave without paying their criminal fines.

    • zerog_bandit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      In the US, the only way a government ID can be confiscated is if it’s provably fake. This is akin to debtors prison, a practice that has been outlawed in much of the civilized world for good reason. I get the sentiment, but there are better ways to enforce.

      • HelixDab2@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        100% false, because as I said I’ve had it happen to me. States can, and do, do this.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    1213·
    7 months ago

    I can’t tell you how happy it would make me to drive down the street and see someone in a giant penis costume walking around.

    That would brighten my day no question.

    Stupid Spain.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Now picture in your mind that, again, and again, and again and it’s now the 20th time this month.

      There are no cool things that cannot be spoiled by being done all the time, relentlessly.

      Also in my experience - having lived in Britain - the brits doing this stuff actually behave even worse outside their own country than in Britain (which is quiet shocking if you’re familiar with Friday and Saturday nights in areas like Essex) - British hen and stag dues are expected to be extreme nowadays and they get worse when abroad in the kind of place that’s just a cheap flight away from most of Britain and is comparitivelly much cheaper, because the kind of Britons you get there couldn’t give a rats arse about what foreigners think (Brexit didn’t happen in a vacuum and the whole idea that “Brits are superior” is definitelly common in Britain, especially England) so their behaviour abroad is even more unrestrained than in their own country and not just in this kind of dress-like-a-cock way (which IMHO is fine, even if it gets old after a while) but they’re very loud at all hours of the day and night, and prone to fights and breaking things.

      (In the context of Europe, Brits are pretty bad in how they handle drinking since they’re prone to binge drinking rather than having habitual moderate drinking - such as normally having a beer or a glass of wine with lunch - so not only do they really go for getting drunk as fast and as hard as possible in those traditional two days a week of going out and getting pissed but also, funnilly enough, by not drinking in a moderate way the rest of the week they don’t have the same capability of handling their booze as many other Europeans)

      I suspect what they did in this town is more some kind of half-arsed pushback against that more general behaviour problem of loudness, rowdiness and destructivness than the actual costumes, only in trying to balance the interests of the hotel and bar owners with those of the people who do not make a living from the cheap side of the Tourism Industry, they came up with this “trick” to try and make it less appealing for hen and stag dues or at least for the ones with the more rowdy crowds.