Drunk Wigan holidaymaker left red faced after 'embarrassing' towel bag fall

A drunk holidaymaker has been left red faced after he was captured on camera being knocked over by the weight of just two towels.

Scott Pemberton, from Wigan, attempted to casually swing a beach bag over his shoulder - but the move painfully backfired when the weight of just two wet towels knocked him off his feet. He was caught on camera by brother Kieron as the pair made their way back to their apartment in Benidorm last month (June 12).

Wince-inducing footage shows the 36-year-old swing the beach bag filled with two wet towels upwards and over his head. The momentum of the bag drags his 5ft 6in frame backwards and sweeps his feet from under him until he slams onto the street tiles flat on his back.

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Luckily the Benidorm-branded bag and his wrist stop his head from slamming against the floor so Kieron, 38, instantly begins wheezing with laughter. Baffled Scott stumbled to his feet to continue his day of drinking but woke with a sore neck and back so admits he won't be trying the stunt again.

Kieron has since joked it's his brother's slender eight stone weight that caused the dramatic fall and he's pleased he was filming at the 'right time'. He posted the video to Facebook where it's since been viewed 600,000 times with users split between those in hysterics over the video and others baffled by how he wasn't hospitalised.

Kieron said: "That's how skinny he is. That a couple of towels could do that to him. He's only light and the bag was pretty heavy. It had to be at least a stone with soaking wet beach towels.

"He thought he could swing it over because he was messing around but when he did that it just took his feet. I