New Initiative Aims to Keep Young Women Safe at Oktoberfest

[scooterscot]

Party!

Talking to a colleague she tells me queues start the night before to guarantee entry into a tent the following day. Mad.

Germany's best-known party, Oktoberfest, will kick off its 178th year on Sept. 17. While Munich has already started setting up beer tents in anticipation of the estimated 7 million tourists expected to guzzle beer and eat pretzels at this year's event, a new initiative is preparing to help keep women safe on the Wies'n.

Plans are in place to distribute 5,000 neon-green wristbands to women attending this year's beer-tent party circuit. These are no ordinary "ladies night" wristbands, however. The inside of the wristbands can be used to write information like friends' phone numbers and hotel addresses: valuable details for those who may have had one beer too many and are struggling to get home. The weather-resistant and tear-proof wristbands will be distributed at various locations, including hotels and campsites commonly frequented by tourists.

[AtW]

7 mln tourists and 5k wristbands?

[DodgyAgent]

Party!

Talking to a colleague she tells me queues start the night before to guarantee entry into a tent the following day. Mad.

I presume your wristband will be easy to identify. It will be the one moving the fastest between two "close together points"

[gingerjedi]

Party!

Talking to a colleague she tells me queues start the night before to guarantee entry into a tent the following day. Mad.

I went for 8 days straight and never had a problem? Or at least I don't remember having a problem?

The fairground rides are open for half an hour after the tents shut.

[scooterscot]

7 mln tourists and 5k wristbands?

Not in the same day. Plonker.

[sasguru]

PooperScooter gives you a taste of what its like when your 18 year old leaves home for the first time. You know he's naive and wet behind the years and a bit of a plonker.
Still its quite sweet to see someone think he's the first person in the world to experience certain things

[AtW]

Not in the same day. Plonker.

20 days festival and 7 mln tourists means 350k on average per day, 5k strips don't add up unless 345k of tourists expected to be overaged belly beer IT contractors who have left England for greener grass.

[scooterscot]

20 days festival and 7 mln tourists means 350k on average per day, 5k strips don't add up unless 345k of tourists expected to be overaged belly beer IT contractors who have left England for greener grass.

Why do you think there should be as many woman drinking beer as there is men?

[AtW]

Why do you think there should be as many woman drinking beer as there is men?

[gingerjedi]

Why do you think there should be as many woman drinking beer as there is men?

Not far off, certainly not a ratio of 20:1.