Germany - 2 elderly men escape nursing home to go to heavy metal festival - Aug 2018

[MelmothTheLost]

Pair of elderly German men escape their nursing home to go to a heavy metal festival

Two elderly men escaped their nursing home to go to a heavy metal music festival.

Staff at the home in northern Germany raised the alarm after the men went missing on Friday night.

After a frantic search, police found the metal-heads 'disoriented and dazed' at 3am in the grounds of Wacken Open Air, the world's biggest heavy metal festival.

Elderly German men escape nursing home to go to heavy metal festival | Daily Mail Online

 

[Amonet]

I hope they had a good time!

I see Judas Priest was playing the festival. I hope the two men weren't "Breaking The Law" by absconding from their home.

 

[dotr]

Love it, they should include those men in one of the band's next videos!
Pre show video.
Two elderly men escaped their nursing home to attend the world's biggest metal festival
"Artists performing at this year's Wacken Open Air included Judas Priest, Danzig, Red Hot Chili Peppers and In Flames."

 

[razzledazzle]

Oh yeah! Hope they had a GREAT night!!

 

[meanmaryjean]

I want to know how old they are. Because I see people referred to all the time as 'elderly' who are just a hair over 60 and it ticks me off as I am several hairs past that!

 

[MelmothTheLost]

It's not the first time this sort of thing has happened.

In 2014, 89 year old Bernard Jordan, a Royal Navy veteran, absconded from his nursing home in Sussex to join the commemorations of the 70 anniversary of D-Day in Normandy.

Veteran disappears for Normandy trip

 

[matou]

Hordes of headbangers amassed in Germany for the world's largest heavy metal festival — among them, two elderly men who apparently left their retirement home to rock out, police said.

Authorities said the pair went missing from their retirement home in Dithmarscher, a rural district in Schleswig-Holstein, and were found to have traveled about 25 miles to Wacken Open Air, a days-long festival not far from Hamburg.

Two elderly men went missing. They were found at the world’s biggest heavy metal festival.

 

[matou]

Oh whoops. I started another thread. I love this story.

 

[dotr]

GDPR Consent
"Authorities in Norway have called off the search for a 92-year-old woman who had disappeared from an old folks’ home after she was discovered to have fled the residence to take off with her Swedish lover, an 87-year-old man.

The managerial staff at Vilberg old people’s home in Eidsvoll, located north of the Norwegian capital of Oslo, had raised the alarm with the local police force after nurses found the woman’s mobility walking frame abandoned in the car park.

But it was later discovered that she had made her way by car to Stockholm, 570km away, for a romantic tryst with her 87-year-old boyfriend."

 

[matou]

Hordes of headbangers amassed in Germany for the world's largest heavy metal festival — among them, two elderly men who apparently left their retirement home to rock out, police said.

Authorities said the pair went missing from their retirement home in Dithmarscher, a rural district in Schleswig-Holstein, and were found to have traveled about 25 miles to Wacken Open Air, a days-long festival not far from Hamburg.

Peter Berndt, a spokesman for the Itzehoe police department, said the two men were thought to have made their way to the festival by foot and public transport, though it is unclear when exactly they arrived in Wacken and how much time they spent at the festival.

Two elderly men went missing. They were found at the world’s biggest heavy metal festival.

 

[whatsnext]

Fantastic festival! no matter what age, I am sure everybody visiting Wacken was "disoriented and dazed" by 3.00 am...

 

[yurena]

What a pair of characters! lol that is the attitude. Life is just once so one should go on a little adventure from time to time at any age and make the most of it.

 

[cybervampira]

Missing elderly men found at heavy metal festival

Two elderly German men who went missing from their nursing home were discovered around 3 a.m. Saturday at a days-long heavy metal festival about 50 miles from Hamburg.

The two men, who weren't identified, were found at Wacken Open Air, about 16 miles from their residence in Dithmarschen, part of Schleswig-Holstein, police said.

Wacken Open Air, aka W:O:A, is a four-day heavy metal festival held every year, usually near the beginning of August. This year's scheduled lineup includes Danzig, Judas Priest and Hatebreed.

Two elderly men went missing. They were found at the world’s biggest heavy metal festival.

Elderly German men escape nursing home to go to heavy metal festival | Daily Mail Online

 

[Jennifer17]

Life in the old dog yet.

 

[steverogers]

My heroes.They should have let them stay.I've always wanted to go to Wacken

 

[dotr]

Combine Ws threads?
Germany - 2 elderly men escape nursing home to go to heavy metal festival - Aug 2018

 

[steverogers]

Are we sure one of them wasn't Rob Halford?