Offensive Italians at the Oktoberfest

The buddy system is the best advice.

Thats one thing about the Fest that blows my mind every year..

How many kids, guys but especially girls are left, passed out, in the alley ways by the loo's, hell anywhere! Alone!

It's like they need Pre-Oktoberfest training.

Get a mean looking guy at the gates before they can go in with a bullhorn:

OK FOLKS: WHAT YOU NEED IS MARINE-LIKE MENTALITY! NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND!!

I know thats what we were (are)like, just going to a club , never mind something as massive as this. You never leave a girlfriend like that..

Gives me the creeps.

Now it's like drop the dead weight so we can keep moving on.

I would actually go as far as having a zero tollerance policy for all italians. Time and time again, this year not any different, the weisn is horded by loads of italians and in most cases the result is always the same. Pretend to be drunk, fall over on some unsuspecting girl nearby, followed by screaming insults and allot of bad taste in the mouth for all who are there tring to have a nice time.
I say start enforcing some sort of ban on italian groups, or put them in their own area where they cant offend or harrass anyone. If they want to drink fine, but then there shouldnt be a problem if they do so alone right? Without risk of harrassing the general population. As time goes by, and by italians standards that would alllot of time, they will learn how behave like almost civilized people. The line must be drawn somewhere.
Just a suggestion.
Oh and just a reminder, this weekend is the italian week-end at the fest, so be carefull people.

Try substituting "Jews/Blacks/Homosexuals" in the above rant and see how you feel afterwards.

Wilkommen in Deutschland.

We had a great time with the Italians at our next-door table last Sunday, Gramps even tried to engage me as their private tour guide because they wanted to see the city as well. No groping, just lots of salute! and dancing on the bench.

Ughhhh...why did you give these people a reason to react?
They have nothing better to do mate

To all the others:
Please...there are smarter people who are dealing with the "issue".
Take a deep breath...for once... and chillout.

Also please don't forget the Pizza, Mario, Chianti etc etc...tonight I'm playing Mario while eating pizza and drinking Chianti for example...so don't hate

*waits for pitchforks thrown by angry TT addicts' mob*

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Right, so it must have been racism too when it was decided to ban ALL British Clubs from matches for 5 years after the Liverpool massacre? Do we need a really bad thing to happen before provisions are taken and people wake up?

I notice that you are from South Africa, giving your words, perhaps, even more (or less) of an impact. You might want to check out the thread re "gays at the Oktoberfest", lots of good stuff there about tolerance and such.

I don't even know you!

Of coarse being from South Africa I must be a pro apartheid racist radical. Right whos generalising now?

LOL; it sucks to be pre-judged, doesn´t it.

The irony of the whole thing is that I go to the Wies´n every day with the exception of the middle weekend. I got stuck in the middle of little Italy two years ago and, while I did not get groped, was subjected to endless singing of the Italian national anthem.

Perhaps camera's all around and a prosecution for sexual harasment or two might be more appropriate, regardless of the nationality.

I think that some high profile cases of people getting banged up for sexual assault or attempted rape would probably focus people's minds on the issue?

Hey guys you are out of sense ...
comparing hooligan's behaviour with what italians are doing at the Wiesn? We have to wait
till something really bad will happen? U mean something like in an usual english pub on friday??
...well ... I have no more words to reply!
Thank's god there are also a lot of people that can still use their brain!.
Thanks Ratben and Sarabyrd ...
And I am not excusing italians or whatever, as i said before i feel sometimes embarassed for their behaviour...
Can someone proof (with a decent statistic) that italian are the most prone to try/succeed to rape
girls at the Wiesn? It's then making stupid comments or trying to kiss someone or whatever considered a serious crime ... don't think so,
it's really annoying for a girl, but given also the spirit of the wiesn it's not soooooo out of the common sense ...
actually last weekend i met a lot of groups of italians, spent some time with them and they were ALL behaving
really nicely and having fun ... Just had some troubles with other nationalities, but i won't generalize ...

cheers,

and enjoy the wiesn ...

a dangerous [s](half)[/s] italian !

Unless there are actual crime figures showing that the majority of incidents are perpetrated by Italian nationals, then like all generalisations this is a load of BS. I've never experienced anything of the sort and really believe nationality has no bearing.

I'm with hams and others. Boorish behavior isn't limited to any one nationality.

However, it does seem to be limited to one gender. I wonder if anyone would be in favor of one of the smaller tents going "ladies only" for, say, Thursday nights? Would you go, ladies?