Drinking speed limits at the Oktoberfest

In an effort to stop us binge drinking ex pats from the land of closing time ( formerly ), The german government is enforcing a speed limit this year,

maximum speed limit of 2 Mph, (Masses per hour).



Anyone caught going over the speed limit will be made to pull the little yellow carts around for an hour.

tongue firmly in cheek

Well, I'll be fine, take me an hour to drink one Maß! But I know alot of TTer's that may have some problems!

i think this is totally an unfair speed limit. it should be like a dui sort of limit. where you take into account someones body mass and ability to handel alcohol, i know some people that are blitzed after one mass, however some other people arent so. this 2mph is definately something i am not in favor of.

@ iain- you being a newfie, no wonder the limit upsets you!

drinking is a marathon event, not a sprint. 2Mph is quite reasonable. I don't know many people who can keep that up 8 hours a day, for 16 days.

its all about the principle of the matter. its not what you can actually do. i, being a pure newfie, have never touched alcohol in my life.

me niether ...but I have personally been trying to achieve this for years, the effect on the wallet is the usual cause of failure

It will be hard for all this...to me time is someone else preconcieved but irrevelent thought.

know a french cook who drank 11 masses in one day and he still remembers it !!.

To someone who hasn't been to the Wies'n the idea of 11 Mass in one day might be somewhat in-credible; for those of us who have got to a tent at 10:00am, ate 3 chickens, five giant pretzels and drank (more or less) at 1 Mph, the idea seems a little more doable. And I plan on doing it several times this year