Two elderly men ditch their nursing home, hit up heavy metal festival

This is as metal as it gets.

Two elderly men ditched their nursing home in Germany on Friday, and ended up at what’s widely considered the world’s largest heavy metal festival.

According to Deutsche Welle, police found the two runaways at Wacken Open Air, a colossal four-day annual music festival dubbed “the Metal Mecca,” held in the small German village of Wacken.

After being alerted by the nursing home, authorities reportedly located the missing pair at a casual 3 a.m. at the festival — that’s when the last stages finish up for the night, so these guys are pretty hardcore.  Read more…

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