Yahoo News Pensioners sneak out of nursing home to rock out at world’s biggest heavy metal music festival
Two elderly men sneaked out of their nursing home to go to the world’s biggest metal music festival.
The pensioners were eventually found by police at 3am in the middle of the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany.
The festival in the northern German town of Wacken attracts 75,000 metal fans – as well as the two aging rockers.
Police said the two men were found “disorientated and dazed” at the event.
They were ushered into a taxi, which was given a police escort back to the nursing home.
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Staff at the nursing home called the police when they noticed that two of their residents had gone missing.
Police spokeswoman Merle Neufeld said: “They obviously liked the metal festival.
“The care home quickly organised return transport after police picked them up.”
The line-up at Wacken Open Air at the weekend included acts such as Judas Priest and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Although the festival is usually known for its muddy fields, there were warning of fires issued amid Europe’s heatwave.
