SOFT NEWS Elderly men escape nursing home to go to Wacken metal festival [Germany]

Melodi

Melodi

Disaster Cat
With so much bad news, I thought this story out of Germany was rather fun, I hope the old guys enjoyed themselves!

Elderly men escape nursing home to go to Wacken metal festival
A German nursing home alerted police after they noticed two men were missing. They were later found at 3 a.m. at the Wacken Open Air metal festival.
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wacken fan (picture-alliance/Eibner-Pressefoto/D. Jacobs)
Two elderly German men escaped the confines of their nursing home on Friday to attend Wacken Open Air, police said.

The nursing home alerted police after the gentlemen were found to be missing from the center.

Police then found the aging metalheads at 3 a.m. at Wacken Open Air, the world’s biggest heavy metal festival. A police spokeswoman said they were "disoriented and dazed."

The men were reluctant to leave the four-day festival so police escorted them home with the help of a taxi and a patrol car.

"They obviously liked the metal festival," police spokeswoman Merle Neufeld told public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk. "The care home quickly organized a return transport after police picked them up."

The 29th edition of the legendary festival was fully sold out, with an expected 75,000 people expected to attend the four-day festival.

Headline acts this year include Danzig, Judas Priest, Hatebreed, In Flames, Running Wild, Arch Enemy, In Extremo and Eskimo Callboy.

The festival in Schleswig Holstein is often inundated with mud, but this year a heatwave saw organizers warn fans against fire and dust risks.

Police praised revelers this year for good behavior with little interference needed from police beside a few minor drug seizures.
https://www.dw.com/en/elderly-men-escape-nursing-home-to-go-to-wacken-metal-festival/a-44955305
 
ainitfunny

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
Police then found the aging metalheads at 3 a.m. at Wacken Open Air, the world’s biggest heavy metal festival. A police spokeswoman said they were "disoriented and dazed."

The men were reluctant to leave the four-day festival so police escorted them home with the help of a taxi and a patrol car.

"They obviously liked the metal festival," police spokeswoman Merle Neufeld told public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk. "The care home quickly organized a return transport after police picked them up."
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LOL! That's not some kind of "elder dementia", They were HIGH, how hard is that that to recognize? They took the opportunity to fully enjoy the scene! They were heavy metal fans and they "partied"! They probably couldn't even get a cigarette, let alone a joint, at the nursing home.

(NO, I have never smoked marajuana.)
 
Blacknarwhal

Blacknarwhal

Let's Go Brandon!
ainitfunny said:
LOL! That's not some kind of "elder dementia", They were HIGH, how hard is that that to recognize? They took the opportunity to fully enjoy the scene! They were heavy metal fans and they "partied"! They probably couldn't even get a cigarette, let alone a joint, at the nursing home.

(NO, I have never smoked marajuana.)
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I don't know about that one. Spend long enough in front of any kind of blasting music--especially the kind you'd get out there--and you might still wind up disoriented and dazed even without chemical help.
 
Squib

Squib

Veteran Member
God bless ‘um!

As an earlier poster said, they may have been “Dazed & Confused!”
 
sssarawolf

sssarawolf

Has No Life - Lives on TB
So they escaped their prison, are nursing homes supposed to be like jail time until you die?
 
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WalknTrot

Veteran Member
Yeah, these days, often the oldest codgers in the arena are the guys up on stage rocking their wrinkled fannies off and deafening fans that could be their grandkids. Keeping it alive as long as they're alive anyway. ;)
 
Doc1

Doc1

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Good on 'em, I say! Too many medical and geriatric institutions are like prisons with respect to freedom of movement and activity. When (or if) you come and go, when you must be in bed, what you can and cannot consume (alcohol, tobacco, etc.), with whom, you may visit and what you may do with visitors, etc. I - quite seriously - would rather die than be condemned to one of these places.

I've seen too many people (including my father) spend their last days in such places. In my dad's case, the institution was expensive and "nice," nonetheless, it was still a prison-warehouse for the nearly dead. I would've much rather seen him go home and perhaps die under his pine trees, but the decision was completely out of my hands.

Men should - at least metaphorically-speaking - die with their boots on. They should not expire swaddled in diapers and hospital gowns, with the circumstances of their last moments dictated by some Nurse Ratchet or administrative type.

I hope the old German guys enjoyed their metal concert before they were captured.

Best regards
Doc
 
Melodi

Melodi

Disaster Cat
We have a relatively young friend (40's now I think) who has spent the last 15 years in such a "Jail" and it is a jail.

She has to be in bed at certain times, she isn't "allowed" to go out past 7 pm (if someone can pick her up and take her somewhere in her electric wheelchair).

They take all but 15 dollars a month in Social Security and my FIL (a medical doctor with the VA) had to personally write the State Boards in her State twice when they punished her for not attending Christian Religious services and tried to prevent her from putting her personal religious items up in her personal room.

We do not live close enough to have much of an effect, but friends have helped provide her with a working computer etc.

She ended up in the situation when she broke her arm and when her time in the hospital was up the social workers dumped her in the care home, had closed her apartment and boxed up her stuff.

Her mind is beyond fully functioning, she was working on a Master's Degree when she fell.

A lot of inmates in these places...
 
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