The Bognor holiday camp company sacked the five after they stripped off in a town centre pub.
Their cheeky antics were witnessed by another staff member who grassed them up to their bosses.
It resulted in the lads getting the elbow even though they kept their underpants on.
Butlins said they were dismissed for "gross misconduct", although three appealed and got their jobs back.
What is the world coming to?
Are Butlins going to ban bathers from the swimming pool because they've stripped down to their trunks?
Butlins should have signed up the lads for a summer run to keep the crowds at Southcoast World entertained.
Being security guards, they've already got the uniform.
MONEY is flooding in for the UNICEF/Evening Argus Kosovo Appeal.
You, our readers, have donated nearly £4,000 since Wednesday, which is a fantastic achievement.
But keep the cash rolling in because every penny could save a life.
As the weather warms up, disease will become as big a danger as the Serbian death squads roaming Kosovo.
And if the aid agencies don't have enough medical supplies, thousands more might die needlessly.
THEY say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
So the new statues on Brighton beach, made out of thousands of pebbles, should spark a lot of comment, both for and against.
The sculptors got £5,000 from the National Lottery to mould the shingle into human shapes.
Stone me, that's a lot of cash, but at least they look better than the chunk of rusting scrap iron dumped nearby which somebody had the cheek to call art.
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