Weed and fruit-scented cigarettes wafted over the oceans of sweaty spring breakers stuffed onto the decks of Harry's Harry's in Panama City Beach, Florida on Thursday.
The boys from Tennessee Flats wore two bikini on their shoulders while the pink-haired gen-zer shook Coors Lights, just as the pink-haired gen-zer wore on fours towards the heavy remix of Van Halen's “Panama” base.
Beyond the dance floor, Timothy Chalamett, an eye-catching mustache, returned under the bucket hat, while security guards closed the toilet due to a “vomiting incident.”
“I had to take five knives today,” the security guard, the best in proof of bullets, told the Post about confiscating weapons from the group early in the afternoon, ahead of the performance of rapper G-Eazy.
This is spring break along the US Gulf. The post reports that children smuggle cocaine, ecstasy and weeds from other states, deal with them on the streets, flash fake IDs, and shatter Miami Vice Freeze cocktails in the Stanley Cup sized portion.
Teens and university students, primarily in the southern states of Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina, flood “30A” as is known.
“It's Crack's 'Jersey Shore'. Everyone is down to do anything,” Tampa's Katie, 25, said, referring to the MTV reality show.
Casual sex and drugs
There's no shortage of shirtless horny young men on the beach or bar. Most of them seem to be drunk before the sun sets.
“If Alabama comes when he's here, that's great. The girls in Alabama are fluffy. They're partying here. There are a lot of Tennessee people here. People in the Midwest and South have fewer hooks. Georgia, they're pretty fluffy.”
The 22-year-old senior finance, on the second floor of Panama City Beach Bar, told the Post that the drug scene is rampant and easy to access.
“Cocaine. Weeds. Molly – everywhere. [Spring breakers] Do it mostly in the room. They take Molly and go to the party. They do cocaine in the bathroom. Weeds smoke on the balcony. We bring it. You just need to get it at home. A university student in Joplin, Missouri, told the Post.
“Coke. It's all I do,” he added. The drug said it would cost $150 for a small bag of “about 20 lines.”
“Some people know about spring break, and I'm coming here to sell drugs,” he added when asked if he was worried, it could be cut off with super-dried fentanyl. [the drug dealer] looks. They may be wearing Tennessee Flat shirts, but they have to go first. They are almost dying before me. ”
Fake ID, easy minor access
“I use black and white photos and it's easy to get away,” two 20-year-old sophomores from East Tennessee State University said in a post that they had purchased a fake Georgia ID.
“I got my fake ID from a random guy in high school third grade. It's working [in Panama City Beach] So far, one of the 20-year-old sophomores spoke about going into the bar, pointing out that they never scanned her ID.
“Many people have fakes and people drink minors.”
The security guards at Harpoon Harry's posted that the biggest problem they face apart from weapons is the issue of tolerance, or rather the issue of shortage, among young revelers.
“If you're really messed up, we'll get you a taxi. The biggest problem is that people are overly drunk. Kids get DUI,” they said.
“You can know when they're on [cocaine]. They run a thousand miles per hour. Ecstasy is a big deal. A lot of kids bring it, college kids,” the second guard said.
The Florida Panhandle has embraced parties, but other major spring break destinations in the state, such as Miami Beach, have cracked down in recent years.
Miami has strict rules. Close your parking garage, hiking rates to park, double towing fees, registering DUI and security checkpoints. Many brought it after two shootings shaking during the chaotic spring break in 2022. NBC Miami reported.
However, on Saturday night, Post witnessed an injured college-aged child at Las Olas Beach, Fort Lauderdale. He was taken to the hospital after his eyes seemed to have returned to his head. Florida police too “Large, unauthorized spring Party participants flocked to the beach party when they were promoted at Tiktok at Sunny Isles Beach between Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
Snapchat Party
In Seaside, a high-class community along 30A, staff conducted unaccompanied minors from March 1st to April 25th, after 7pm, an hour before last year.
But that doesn't stop children from raiding local house parties that say they go anything.
“I'm hosting Rayger – pull-ups. As long as I'm fine with seeing alcohol and drugs,” the 16-year-old man staying at a beach house told the Post Wednesday night.
A group of 12 second-graders and 16-year-olds in Oklahoma, ages 15 and 16, rented a house for $2,500 a week using “Saving Birthday and Christmas Money.”
They said they blindly walked to a house they found from “Snap Map,” a feature in Snapchat that allows users to share their locations with friends and see snaps from other users in the same location.
“There's a Snapchat group chat with people coming here and hundreds of people [in Seaside and along 30A]. They share links from Tiktok with the party. I don't know if they are normal or not. Sometimes they're weird,” Samantha, 16, who refused to give her last name, told the Post.
A spokesman for the Walton County Sheriff's Office said parents often rent homes for teenagers in the 30A area, and property owners often don't know who is staying at the home.
“The other day, there was an arrest where the group was kicked out of the house because the person who rented the house was not 18 and somehow slipped on Airbnb. We found stolen guns and a lot of marijuana and arrested them.”
Walton County Community too Partnering with the new app Igbo It is designed to allow parents to track teen location and group messages along with their parents. The app will show a pin when you are within 50 yards of another child who has the app.
Local teens like 18-year-old Brooke Moran, a high school senior who is based in Walton County, said they are not fans of spring break, but Seaside has beaten the beach and rich tourists acting overrun.
“We don't like these people. They're very rude. This is what Seaside wants. They want these rich blonde girls to come here and buy theirs. The seaside is the most expensive place in the Panhandle.
“All the girls here love Lululemon, they act very wisely and they all do coke in the toilet,” said another 18-year-old from Seaside. A little ironically, later that night, Post discovered a clearly tongue-like “don't coke” hanging in the ladies' toilet at a red bar in Grayton Beach.
“We're not spending any money on that s-t,” Moran told the Post. “We're going to Walmart.”
