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Two elderly men escaped from their nursing home to go to a heavy metal music festival, police have said.
The two pensioners escaped the grounds of their care home in Dithmarschen, northern Germany, on Friday, according to German public broadcaster NDR 1 Welle Nord.
After staff called police the men were discovered at 3am at Wacken Open Air, a three-day music festival which is the world's largest dedicated to heavy metal.
Police spokeswoman Merle Neufeld told NDR 1 Welle Nord that the two pensioners were "disoriented and dazed" when police found them.
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However they "obviously liked the music festival," she said, and were reluctant to leave.
They were given a lift home in a taxi, escorted by a patrol car as a precaution.
The sold-out 29th instalment of the world-famous celebration of heavy metal hosted about 75,000 people this year, with headline acts including Judas Priest, In Flames and Hatebreed.