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Previously on "Oktoberfest"

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  • gingerjedi
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    I remember it being quite a jolly affair, it was the united nations of drinking with rollercoasters.

    The only hostility I experienced was from some locals who didn't appreciate us stumbling into their 'local bar for local people', one American guy who said he was related to George Bush bought chicken and chips for about 200 people in one after party pub jaunt.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Turkish teenagers today, eh?

    I believe he was in his 40's....

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    "Turkish engineer goes through a tent masturbating"
    Turkish teenagers today, eh?

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  • Mich the Tester
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    0 Fussballspiele in unmittelbaren Umfeld..

    So the police were brought in to enforce the offside rule?

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  • scooterscot
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    "Turkish engineer goes through a tent masturbating"

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  • darmstadt
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    Wiesn Reports, i.e. Bayerische Polizei - Wiesn-Report vom 22.09.2013

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by amcdonald View Post
    Apart from swiss nazis and very drunken aussies I don't remember it being that bad, seeing police with guns was more worrying when I've been there
    That's always been my experience however I tend to leave it until the last week when the Italians arrive, they love it when I've got the bambino. Mamma Mia!

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    Munich Police reports: Polizeipräsidium München
    Still not reading about the drama you advertised...

    1502. New digital traffic monitoring system; recording of the real operation

    1503. Breaking into an apartment - Schwabing

    1504. Iraqis injured Croats with knives lethal

    From the meadow report:

    1505. Well attended costume and protecting moving

    1506. Arrested backpack thief in the marquee by investigators

    1507. Pointed visitors searched by police wrong, a person taken into custody

    1508th Unknown hits with two beer mug down hard Visitors

    1509th Sexual coercion visit to Wiesbaden - Neuhausen

    1510. Italian tourist robbed on the meadows; arrested offenders

    1511th Successful pickpocket investigators at the Oktoberfest

    1512. Officer candidate strikes with beer mug

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  • amcdonald
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    Apart from swiss nazis and very drunken aussies I don't remember it being that bad, seeing police with guns was more worrying when I've been there

    And that was from the tourist areas, most of the beer tents seem to be for german business men, and you've got more chance of Merkel invading Poland than seeing a fight there

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  • suityou01
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    The results from day 1, or why I don't go:

    Around 200 altercations requiring police intervention
    555 people injured (trying to find nationality figures)
    49 alcohol poisonings
    7 Maß glass smashings (against people that is, and they're ******* heavy)
    1 policeman in hospital
    1 person caught wanking in a beer tent

    Worse than all the football matches in Germany over the weekend (200+ games)
    I see the problem. It's September.

    HTH

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Sounds rather jolly to me:

    Beer trumps politics as Oktoberfest opens - The Local

    Seriously what are your sources? I've been reading through Nachrichten aus Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft und Sport - Süddeutsche.de, not a whisper!
    Munich Police reports: Polizeipräsidium München

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    You mean it's orthodox holy writ with the source?
    Yes, because I'm drinking the holly stuff right now and it's all very jolly.

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    By the by, what's the source? It's all heresy without a source.
    You mean it's orthodox holy writ with the source?

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  • scooterscot
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    Sounds rather jolly to me:

    Beer trumps politics as Oktoberfest opens - The Local

    Seriously what are your sources? I've been reading through Nachrichten aus Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft und Sport - Süddeutsche.de, not a whisper!

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    The results from day 1, or why I don't go:

    Around 200 altercations requiring police intervention
    555 people injured (trying to find nationality figures)
    49 alcohol poisonings
    7 Maß glass smashings (against people that is, and they're ******* heavy)
    1 policeman in hospital
    1 person caught wanking in a beer tent

    Worse than all the football matches in Germany over the weekend (200+ games)
    By the by, what's the source? It's all heresy without a source.

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