A BRITISH holidaymaker survived a 50ft plunge from a hotel balcony because he was DRUNK.

Theo Paget, 20, has been dubbed rubber band man by doctors after his miracle escape.

He jumped up and ran off after the fall.

Doctors say he should have died in the third-storey fall but his muscles were so relaxed from a cocktail of booze and drugs that he absorbed the impact.

Pals and hotel security in Marmaris, Turkey, searched for him for two hours before he strolled back into the lobby complaining of a sore back.

Theo, of Leicester, was taken to hospital and found to have a spinal fracture.

He said: They were amazed I lived to tell the tale. I was like a rubber ball and just bounced