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Elderly men escape nursing home, police find them at heavy metal festival

The men were found at 3 a.m. at the Wacken Open Air metal festival in Germany

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WACKEN, Germany – Two elderly men who escaped from their nursing home in Germany on Friday were found at the world's largest heavy metal festival.

Police said when the men were located at 3 a.m. at Wacken Open Air they were "disoriented and dazed" and did not want to leave the four-day festival. Deutsche Welle reported that police returned them to the nursing home.

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Police told public broadcaster, Norddeutscher Rundfunk that the men "obviously liked the metal festival."

Wacken Open Air is an annual festival in the small village of Wacken in Northern Germany. It is considered the biggest heavy metal festival in the world.

 


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