TikTok clip sparks booze warning for Victorian schoolies
A video showing hundreds of empty booze bottles after a schoolies celebration has gone viral, prompting warnings.
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A clip from Gold Coast schoolies is setting a new standard of alcohol consumption for Victorian students to emulate, prompting warnings from officials.
A video showing a week’s worth of empty bottles from one unit, which include hundreds of vodka cruiser bottles, several bottles of spirits and dozens of cans has gone viral among schoolies. It also shows an array of illegal vape cannisters.
The clip, which has had 87,000 likes and 625,000 views, even tagged in Red Frogs which is a church-based voluntary organisation helping schoolies partygoers to drink safely.
Reaction from more than 1000 people who commented included “weak effort” to “good night
with the boys” to “that it?”
Others said: “Can’t wait to go to schoolies” and “this will be us”.
Social media boasting at schoolies includes excessive drinking, fridges full of nothing but alcohol, trashed apartments, holes punched in walls and friends lying passed out with pieces of furniture on them.
The Queensland schoolies week also hit the media for the amount of rubbish left at the mall in Surfers’ Paradise and for a crude checklist of sexual conquests posted online.
Despite this, Queensland Police thanked schoolies for looking out for each other and posed for selfies with partygoers.
It comes as thousands of Victorian school leavers are set to travel to the Gold Coast, Byron Bay and Bali for the start of their schoolies week, with more staying local and heading to the Mornington Peninsula, Phillip Island and the Surf Coast.
Social media posts show cars packed full of nothing but cartons of alcohol, including beers, cruisers and UDLs.
Mornington Peninsula Mayor Anthony Marsh said the area will be hosting a two-day flagship music festival at the Rye foreshore on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 November for Peninsula Schoolies 2022.
“Our Peninsula Schoolies festival last year was a huge success, with almost 7000 people attending across two days. With another bumper line up of music we hope all attendees have a safe and enjoyable event,” he said.
In addition, more than 1500 year 12 school leavers will start arriving in Bass Coast this week for the official start of Schoolies Week celebrations which runs from 26 November to 4 December.
“School-leavers have been coming to Phillip Island for decades to celebrate the end of their
High School experience,’’ said Bass Coast Shire Council Mayor, Cr Michael Whelan.
“Council wants school leavers to stay safe, make good choices and enjoy the beauty that is
Phillip Island,’’ Cr Whelan said. “This includes being respectful of the locals and their spaces,
remembering that families use the same areas during the day that school leavers use at night-time”.
The Red Frogs organisation is helping to “educate young people on safe partying behaviours; and promote and provide alcohol-free and/or diversionary activities that engage young people in these environments”.
They warn that binge drinking involves men drinking more than five drinks in a night and four for women.
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