GROOM & DOOM
Terrifying car kidnapping with grenades, sinking a 30ft barge & horror testicle disaster.. when Stag dos go VERY wrong
One stag spent two years having the 'worst tattoo mistake ever' lasered off
WE all know the stereotype about Brits abroad - but often with stag dos, the rule really does apply.
This week, eight drunken British men were arrested at Balneario Illetas beach club, located between Palma and Magaluf, after a massive beach brawl broke out - just days before they were due to be attending a wedding in Majorca.
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Incredible footage of the incident appeared to show security guards grappling with the allegedly drunken holidaymakers on the sand.
Women could be heard screaming "Stop", with an Argentinian onlooker saying: “I just can’t believe it.”
A woman and one of the security guards ended up being knocked to the ground in the scuffle.
The British men involved were later pictured in handcuffs on steps by the beach club before they were taken away.
But it’s not the first time a British stag do has got a little too rowdy, as we reveal some of the biggest horror stories…
Kidnap trauma
One groom-to-be was left so traumatised by a staged kidnapping - which his future wife was in on - that he almost missed his wedding.
While driving through the countryside with his fiancée in the car, Ollie McAninch was kidnapped by 16 of his so-called friends, masked, brandishing baseball bats and setting off smoke grenades, screaming: “Get out of the f***ing car and onto the floor."
They then mounted him on a bike, and forced him to cycle ten miles to his own stag do, wearing nothing but a Borat-style “mankini”.
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A week later, Ollie began feeling sore and itchy - and was diagnosed with shingles, a skin and nerve disease commonly seen in combat veterans and brought on by stress.
He was so contagious he couldn't go near his fiance, Clair, for a month in the run-up to the wedding.
Drunk stag do Scot gets 'rescued' from knee-deep pool by fed-up lifeguard
He said: “I have no doubt that fake kidnapping caused me to develop shingles.”
Luckily, Ollie got over Clair and his friends’ betrayal and recovered in time for the wedding to go ahead as planned.
Sinking feeling
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In 2022, a group on a stag do was labelled “idiots” by Worcestershire locals, when they managed to crash a 65ft canal boat, before sinking a second 30ft one, forcing the entire Droitwich canal to shut.
Having rented three barges for the weekend, it didn’t take long for the fellas to start knocking back the booze onboard.
That same evening, the lads managed to crash their narrow boat into a terrified fellow sailor.
Police and fire crews were called to the incident, but that didn’t stop them.
Fuelled with alcohol, the boys drove their boat into a lock, managing to flood it.
The barge, about 30ft long, was submerged when volunteers from River Canal Rescue arrived.
They spent most of the Saturday trying to recover it so the canal could re-open to boat traffic.
And because of the mayhem at the lock, water levels rose in the canal, and angry motorists found nearby roads were flooded.
Meanwhile, the stag lads abandoned their second boat too and all piled aboard the third barge to continue their break.
Cry me a river
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In 2018, a sozzled stag-do reveller dressed as a jockey dived into the Clyde in Glasgow, to dodge cops after a booze cruise turned messy.
The man was part of a group of 15 guys who were aboard the Waverly steamboat, having a marathon boozing session, dressed in jockey gear, with the groom in a horse get-up.
According to the Scottish Sun, the lad who abandoned ship had a row with staff, and the captain said police would be waiting in Glasgow - at which point he panicked and hurled himself in the river.
One passenger onboard said: “We were on the top deck ten minutes before we docked — the next minute he’d climbed the railings and jumped in the water.
“There was a big splash. People were horrified, They were saying ‘Oh my God’. We looked down and saw this guy swimming in a jockey’s outfit.
"It was bizarre. But the water was freezing and he was drunk. He could have died.”
Police and firefighters confirmed the man was pulled to safety after leaping into the river and taken to the hospital for a check.
Tatt's just not on
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After his stag do in Blackpool, one man from Swansea was horrified when he woke up with glasses tattooed on to his face - requested as part of a drunken dare.
The groom, who refused to be named, told MailOnline: "I had no memory of getting the tattoo because I had gone out celebrating and it happened when I was drunk.
"Waking up the morning after, I thought someone had used a permanent marker on my face. When I first came home, obviously I was subject to a lot of stares, but I kind of got used to the tattoo and decided not to get rid of it."
He soon changed his mind, however, after someone mocked him while he was out at the pub
"The next morning I really started to think about what my family and friends thought," he said. "I didn't want them to be embarrassed when they were out with me, so I decided there and then I was going to get it removed."
The man eventually went to 1192 Laser and Beauty Clinic in Swansea - and spent two years getting it removed there.
The clinic's owner Donnalee Alford said it was one of the worst tattoo mistakes she had ever seen.
Going clubbing
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In 2012, a man in Florida reportedly got so angry with a stag party for not “playing the game right” that he attacked them with a golf buggy and golf club.
James Alonza Hines was accused of driving his golf cart into a group of men having a pre-wedding party and then bashing one with a golf club, before yelling: "You need to respect your elders.”
One of the stag party, Murdock Hampe, suffered a badly swollen leg when hit by the golf cart.
He said: "He ran right over my buddy and caught me, too.
“He went full boar."
Hines was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and was jailed and later released.
Stag do statistics
Everything you need to know about stag dos...
• The average cost of a UK stag do is £199.72 per person
• The average cost of a European stag do do is £215.26 (minus flights)
• The average stag is made up of 16 people
• 58% of stags celebrate in the UK, while the rest celebrate abroad
• The most popular activity for stag dos is paintballing
• The most popular UK destination is Newcastle
• The most popular abroad destination is Prague
• Google searches for ‘Benidorm stag do’ have increased by 120%
• Most stag dos last 2 nights
Getting testy
Paintballing is not an unusual activity for a stag do - but Dan Littlejohn needed emergency surgery on his testicles after a game went very wrong.
While playing in Crawley, someone managed to shoot a paintball at him, below the belt, leading to his testicles swelling to almost twice their usual size.
“Immediately, it felt like they were on fire,” he told Metro. “All I could see was one big testicle, and it was getting bigger. It got so bad I was struggling to walk.”
Dan tried to put a brave face on, but the pain began to get worse, leaving him unable to put trousers on or enjoy his stag do at the pub.
“I had to wear jogging bottoms and came home early. I was shaking when I went to bed,” he said.
He was driven to the hospital the next morning by his fiancée Gemma, who told him: “Your balls are the size of your head!”
Dan discovered he’d torn an artery causing severe internal bleeding.
However, he soon recovered and managed to tie the knot with Gemma.
'Rescued' from pool
While on his stag in Marbella, Spain, Christopher ‘Eddie’ Dunlop chucked himself into a knee-deep swimming pool before pretending he had drowned.
In a hilarious video, filmed by one of his 14 stags, an obviously jaded lifeguard then strolled casually into the water to rescue Christopher, from North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
As his pals laughed hysterically - and Christopher showed little sign of wanting to be saved - the lifeguard grabbed him by the neck and forced him onto his back before hauling him out.
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He even put him in the recovery position.
Fellow partygoer Mark Docherty, who filmed the clip, posted the footage with the caption: “Dunny dunlop drowning.”
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Speaking to the Scottish Sun, he said: “We couldn't believe the lifeguard came in the pool as the water was only knee deep.
“When he got put in the recovery position the boys were falling off their chairs in stitches.”