Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,Spain's peak summer season has been disrupted once again by a revolting viral trend that has forced the closure of swimming pools and waterparks across the country, leaving families stranded and facilities scrubbed clean at public expense.At PortAventura World's Caribe Aquatic Park on the Costa Dorada this week, lifeguards evacuated both the adult and children's pools after detecting human faeces in the water.The incident, reported on a Tuesday afternoon and allegedly repeated the next day, left the popular resort's aquatic areas shut for the remainder of the day under strict health protocols.In recent years, Foreign Instagram & TikTok users have taken it upon themselves to try and get public pools to close by defecating in the water.
It's caused a serious public health crisis, already leading to the closure of more than 300 pools in Spain, which all had to be... pic.twitter.com/sWXRbaXvLC
— Lozzy B ??? (@TruthFairy131) August 22, 2026The park, which draws millions of visitors annually including large numbers of British and Irish tourists, applied mandatory cleaning and testing procedures before reopening.One swimmer captured the scene on social media, writing: "It's 4.33pm in the afternoon and some pig has just defecated in the pool and they've kicked us all out. This isn't AI, this is reality. If you're at Caribe Aquatic Park you'll have seen it. We're all out of the pool."@bartoloventura1 Holi son las 4:33 de la tarde y un gorrino o gorrina se acaba de defecar en la piscina de Costa Caribe y nos han sacado a todos esto no es Ia esto es una realidad si estáis en Costa Caribe lo habréis visto estamos todos fuera de la piscina#bartoloventura1 #viral #fyp #portaventuraworld #viral ? sonido original - bartoloventura1The so-called "brown challenge" or "reto marrón" involves deliberately defecating in public pools or releasing faeces from bags concealed in swimwear, with the explicit aim of forcing closures.?? Meanwhile in Spain
