Posted on 03/14/2019 6:13:55 AM PDT by C19fan
Scantily clad girls baring their breasts for strings of beads, sunburnt boys chugging cans of beers through bongs and clouds of vape smoke hanging over the formerly pristine sand: this is March in South Padre Island.
Spring Break sees the sleepy island community of just over 5,000 people transformed as an estimated 100,000 college kids descend for long days of boozing on the beach.
For businesses and the city itself, the influx means a bumper payday with students spending $3.1 million on alcohol alone last year and providing South Padre with an overall windfall of $33.9 million.
But DailyMail.com can reveal that the overwhelming numbers mean the local police department has to draft in officers from other Texas cities – among them border towns such as Los Indios.
Tiny Los Indios is home to just 1,100 people but it also hosts the Los Indios Free Trade International Bridge – a small port of entry on the Rio Grande River.
Police chief Jose De La Rosas, 30, says his small department frequently sends officers to South Padre – even though their area butts up against territory controlled by the notorious Golfos Cartel.
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The UK’s tabs don’t run Page 3 girls anymore. They gotta get their T&A somehow.
In before the half naked girl pics....
Gotta use up that college loan money.
And to think of all that money I wasted as a young man, when this is all it takes...................
Yup, cheaper than alcohol.
30 years ago we used to go down there every year, rent a condo, drink beer and hang out on the beach for a couple weeks. It was nothing like this at all.
After a while you’d get tired of eating Whataburger or Shrimp for dinner, and Pop Tarts for breakfast but so be it. But when you’re young and poor anything beats home.
A few muzzies on the beach would have that silliness cleaned up in no time.
Remember when college kids always looked fit and trim? Now...not so much, mostly fat entitled slobs.
A couple years ago, my son asked if he and his college buddies could borrow our van for a spring break trip. I told him if it was the beach, the answer would be a resounding NO. And he’d be kicked out and I’d be calling his college loans.
He and his space geek buddies went on a severalnstate tour of air and space museums.
The guys all work at NASA or NSA and werent going to do anything to you impact their security clearances.
They got the van and had a great time. That’s what spring break should be, not this hedonistic insanity
To be fair, Spring Break gives a lot of low end tabloid-worthy stories.
And so many girls with tattoos.
Good.
What I saw in the pictures was mostly disgusting and no real happiness.
My 19 year old granddaughter and her fraternity friend came over the other day to see if 3 of them could spend part of spring break on my boat....with me. They are going to Disneyland, the Getty Museum, the Ronald Reagan library and then coming to the boat. I said....that sounds like fun! And of course you can stay with me.
Looks as if Mohave Co sheriffs funds are going to get to be replenished.
Lake Havasu will be busy.
Nothing conveys sophistication like puking in the surf.
This has been going on forever. Actually it looks like the bikinis are getting a little more conservative. For every picture they take of the dumbest and drunkest there are a hundred scenes of kids just hanging around drinking and socializing. Those don’t make the paper.
Socialists of tomorrow.
I know an attorney who makes 80% of his annual income in just one week.
He handles Public Intoxication arrests on the beach at Spring Break.
Throw $5,000 at him and he makes your arrest go away.
I bet it doesn’t hold a candle to Florida
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