LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Mixed reaction to the YouTube video of a group of high school kids from Louisville on spring break down in Florida and now we're hearing from hotel management who says it was just spring break fun.
Dozens of you have sounded off on the WAVE 3 Facebook page. Some say it's a group of kids having fun but others saw a near riot.
The man who took the video says it was chaos and hotel security was turning a blind eye to drunk and stumbling teens.
The General Manager of the Holiday Inn Resort in Panama City Beach disagrees. He says the hotel enforces all laws.
Of the video, GM Cody Khan said, "this goes on every night."
"We certainly don't run a boot camp," said Resort Vice President Julie Hilton. "we're not a prison. We are here to give our guests the space to enjoy themselves."
Both add there is staff onsite to monitor that fun for safety reasons.
Many of the teens from Louisville in the video are high schoolers and the man who shot it, described them as drunk, some even high. He told us hotel security looked the other way.
Hilton says otherwise.
"We certainly do not control what any guest, be they eight years old, 18 or 80 do in the privacy of their room," she said.
Jean Schumm from Louisville-based "Operation: PARENT" says someone can control it: the teens' parents.
"They're going down there for the most part to drink and party," she said. "It's ok to say, 'No, you're not going,' and unfortunately parents feel pressured into this, I think, and teens feel entitled to it."
Schumm says spring break now is different from the trips you remember.
"Maybe you were lucky and you got away with it and there weren't any long-term consequences," she said. "I wonder if those parents if they had to do it over again would you still go down and do the same thing."
The resort staff insists what happened last week is no reason for parents to be alarmed.
"These kids are very orderly," said Khan. "They were having a great time. It just got out of hand for a moment."
The video also caught one of the boys shoving a security guard into the pool. The hotel staff says it was a practical joke and the teen paid for the damage to the guard's phone and radio. They say they will not press charges and consider the matter closed.
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