Posted on 10/08/2012 12:17:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Organizers said 6,9 million litres of beer were consumed at the 179th Oktoberfest, as the biggest folk festival in the world came to end in Munich on Sunday.
The annual German beer festival that opened on September 22 drew 6,4 million visitors from around the world, down from the record 6,9 million who drank 7,5 million litres of beer in 2011.
The local Red Cross reported that more than 800 people drank themselves into state of unconsciousness over the course of the festival.
A police spokesman the department responded to 2000 and had been strained to its “limit and beyond” as a result. Much of the crime, however, was confined to pickpocketing.
Some 116 oxen and 57 calves were eaten this year, with the beer to wash all those meals down costing up to 9,50 euros (12,40 dollars) per litre.
the Over/Under for drunken stupor and requiring a little nappy poo on the grass was 15,000? how’d we do?
And they all owe it to Charlie Mops:
A long time ago, way back in history,
when all there was to drink was nothin but cups of tea.
Along came a man by the name of Charlie Mops,
and he invented a wonderful drink and he made it out of hops.
He must have been an admiral a sultan or a king,
and to his praises we shall always sing.
Look what he has done for us he’s filled us up with cheer!
Lord bless Charlie Mops, the man who invented beer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5zXMokthgE
das ist richtig.
What is this a picture of, an early German mosh pit? Thrashing lederhosen...
And only 800 - or one percent of one percent - drank themselves unconscious?
Very mild and family-friendly all round.
[You know I was going to do this, eh?]
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