Tourist knocked out after hit in the head by chair in swimming pool brawl
This is the moment a group of Brits abroad broke out into a fight by a pool leaving one woman unconscious after she was hit on the head with a chair.
Footage shows travellers at the Marco Polo hotel in San Antonio start yelling at each other by the bar area of the swimming pool.
One woman can then be seen suddenly dropping to the floor after a man launched one of the plastic chairs at her.
A man can also be seen falling into the pool, as a second chair is launched at him.
As he swims to the surface another chair is thrown at his head as people continue to argue around him.
Lifeguards and other members of pool staff rush over to break up the fight and help the woman who remained rolling around on the floor the entire time.
The video was captioned: 'The chaos was temporary. The memories? Permanent.'
One user commented: 'Can smell the Stella, Joop and British passports from here.'
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