Friday, 28 March 2014 08:20

Spring Break Factoids

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Going on Spring Break? Any of your young adult children going on Spring Break. Here are a few facts you may NOT want to hear.

Here’s a by-the-numbers look at Spring Break.

  1. More than 1.5 million students will party during Spring Break, spending more than a billion dollars in Texas and Florida alone.
      
  2. Spring breakers spend an average of $1,100 a week, which is about what a family of four spends on food for an entire month.
      
  3. 40 percent of the guys plan on being drunk throughout the entire day – while only 33 percent of women are making this a priority. 
 
  • In South Padre Island during Spring Break, an average of 25 people are arrested a day – and $80,000 are collected in fines.
      
  • 2,600 Americans are arrested on Spring Break overseas each year.
      
  • And, here’s the least surprising fact … 80 percent of parents worry about their kids on Spring Break. Source:  (TheListShow)