これから結婚をしようという男性が独身最後のパーティー(stag / stag party)に向かっていたが、友人が空港で酔っ払って喧嘩(drunken brawl)となり参加できなくなってしまった、という、まあ、どうでも良いニュース。デイリー・ミラーの記事から引用すると…
A groom missed his own stag party after two of his friends had a drunken brawl at the airport.
The group were kicked off the flight from East Midlands to Alicante after the fight broke out on the tarmac.
Jake Hawkins and nine of his friends had been drinking at the airport, reports Leicestershire Live.
The 24-year-old, who was due to get married to the mother of his two children after the holiday, had already boarded when a member of the ground staff ordered him off the plane because of the brawl at the bottom of the boarding staircase.
Self-employed building maintenance worker Hawkins, who had used his own money to pay for some of his friends to join him on the trip, demanded the eight of them who had not been fighting should be allowed to fly to Spain.
But the airport staff said no and called the police.
stag / stag partyとは独身最後のパーティーのことで、ウィキペディアの日本語版では「バチェーラー・パーティー」の項目がある。
バチェラー・パーティー（米: Bachelor party）、スタッグ・パーティー（英: Stag party）とは、新郎が独身最後の夜を同性の友人と過ごすパーティーのこと[1]。ストリップ観賞が伝統である[2][3][4][1]。なお、新婦が独身最後の夜を同性の友人と過ごすパーティは、バチェロレッテ（バチェロレット）・パーティーと呼ぶ[1][2]。
英語版を見てみると、
A stag night, also known as a stag weekend, stag do or stag party (in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth countries, and Ireland), a buck's night (in Australia) or bachelor party (in United States)[1] is a party held for the man who is to shortly enter marriage.
A stag night is usually planned by the groomsman, occasionally with the assistance of a bachelor party planning company.
The first references to Western stag nights in the Oxford English Dictionary date to the 19th century.[2] Traditionally, stag nights involved a black tie banquet hosted by the father of the groom that included a toast in honour of the groom and bride.[3] Since the 1980s, bachelor parties in the United States have involved vacationing to a foreign destination,[3] or have featured female company such as strippers or topless waitresses.
とあり、stag night、stag weekend、 stag do、stag party、buck's night、bachelor partyなどなど地域によって呼び方がいろいろあるようです。
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