Two elderly German men ran away from a nursing home on Friday to attend a four-day metal music festival. A police patrol found the men at around 3 am when they were on their way to the Wacken Open Air festival. After the men went missing, the retirement home reported about the incident to the police. Reportedly, the metalheads were keen on attending the music event and did not want to cancel their plans on being stopped by the cops.

The elderly, from Dithmarscher in southwestern German had to be escorted by the police patrol in a taxi to the retirement home "as a precaution". Police spokeswoman Merle Neufeld told public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, "They obviously liked the metal festival. The care home quickly organised a return transport after police picked them up." According to a Fox 59 report, a spokesperson for the festival did not know if the men had bought tickets for the music festival.

Wacken Open Air is an annual three-day heavy metal music celebration and gets attendees from around the world. This year was the 29th edition of the festival, and they sold 75,000 tickets. Bands including Judas Priest, Danzig, Nightwish, Hatebreed, In Flames, Running Wild, Arch Enemy, In Extremo and Eskimo Callboy performed at the event.

Wacken Open Air Festival was earlier in the news for constructing a 7-kilometre-long pipeline to carry beer for guests. The new pipeline could reportedly carry about 400,000 litres of beer. Reports said attendees would drink an average of 5.1 litres of beer each over the four-day festival.

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