Wacken Open Air. Gina Wetzler/Getty Images Two elderly men escaped a nursing…
Wacken Open Air.
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Two elderly men escaped a nursing home on Friday to attend an outdoor heavy metal music festival in Germany, as USA Today reported.
Police were notified of the situation on Friday when the men were found to be missing from the facility, per the outlet.
Officers found the men 3 a.m. on Friday at Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, according to reports. A police spokesperson said that the two men were « disoriented and dazed. »
The men were hesitant to leave the festival and had to be escorted home by police in a taxi and police car, USA Today reported.
« 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. »
Wacken is considered the biggest heavy metal-specific music festival in the world . This year, bands like Danzig and Judas Priest played for an expected 75,000 people at the four-day event.
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