These Old Dudes Who Snuck Out of a Nursing Home to Hit up a Metal Festival in Germany Are Legends

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I honestly can’t remember the last metal festival that I’ve been to. We used to go to every one that made its way through Nashville, Tennessee…which admittedly wasn’t many back in my day. Can’t imagine what it would be like to be a metal fan in this era of Nashville…you know…the one that doesn’t have Starwood Ampitheater anymore. But, I digress.

Since then, I’ve matured into a grown ass man. That means I can only listen to grown ass man music like Toto and Billy Joel. But, no matter what – that sliver of metalhead still resides in me somewhere, and anyone who has that bug can’t help but appreciate a story like this.

I’ve always heard that Germany had a pretty killer metal scene, and as it turns out, they happen to also host a huge 75K+ attended festival. One that some old dudes escaped a nursing home to go to.

Courtesy of WBIR.com:

Two elderly German men escaped the confines of their nursing home on Friday to attend the Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival, 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 article doesn’t tell their age, but if they’re running out of a nursing home, you know they’re old. But, I’d be willing to bet ‘disoriented and dazed’ had literally nothing to do with their age.

Have you ever been to a metal festival? I’m getting ‘disoriented and dazed’ just thinking about it. I know it isn’t technically metal, but the last time I went to the Warped Tour, I refused to pay the ridiculous $5 price tag for a bottle of water.

So, I sat in the August heat of Atlanta, Georgia and nearly passed out from heat exhaustion.

Probably not that hot in Germany, but damn – can you imagine? And, even if not for the the heat, there’s plenty of smoke in the air that could leave you dazed and confused.

Or, maybe it was legit Alzheimer’s. We don’t know. Regardless, hats off to these guys for saying screw it and living the dream.

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

Love it. The police found the old guys, and the old guys were like, “fuck you, we don’t wanna leave.” But, naturally, they’re old men, so they’re easy to overpower. They ended up in the cop car anyway.

A crowd of 75,000 people. The middle of Summer. A nursing home to break out of and cops to tangle with…..man….

This whole story is metal as fuck.

Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD and #BeBetter. “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Alabama Crimson Tide football, the WWE, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley

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