Police foil elderly couple's heavy metal plan
Two Germans who ran away from their retirement home to attend a heavy metal music festival had their plot foiled by police, according to a report on CNN.
A police patrol found the two elderly men at 3am on their way to the Wacken Open Air festival after staff at the retirement home in Dithmarschen, northern Germany, reported them missing the evening before.
The elderly pair were reluctant to abort their plans and police said they escorted the men's taxi back to the retirement home "as a precaution."
A spokesperson for the festival did not know if the two men had bought tickets to the event.
The Wacken Open Air festival, an annual three-day celebration of the world of heavy metal music, bills itself as the world's largest festival of its kind, with 75,000 tickets sold this year.
The 29th edition of the festival was fully sold-out and included bands such as Judas Priest and Danzig.
Poor guys, last chance to relive the excitement of their earlier lives before hitting the happy hunting ground and they had to go and spoil it. They made me smile, haha