Oktoberfest reveler stuck in chimney for 12 hours

Ahh I miss the Oktoberfest lunacy!!! What a place to sober up.

Oktoberfest reveller stuck in chimney for 12 hours

Hope no TT's were injured in the incident ...


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I had wondered if this was Wahoo's friend...

You'd think if Santa can make it through hundreds of thousands of chimneys in one night, a man can climb through one, but I guess not. Santa's chimney climbing skills are way underrated.

So here is a strange story from Reuters today. It's about a German man who had been drinking at the Oktoberfest and he somehow managed to get stuck in a chimney for 12 hours while trying to climb into a friend's apartment. I guess this goes to show that you have to be careful where you go after the Weis'n.

What crazy things have you done?

You can read the rest of the story here: Oktoberfest reveler stuck in chimney for 12 hours. It's worth the read, sadly they don't say where this 27 year old was stuck. Anyone know him?

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Is that the 4th time now or the 3rd?

They are a few days late, I'm afraid.

Edit: @Tom, I think it's the fourth.

Near miss for the Darwin awards.

He was interviewed in one of the tabloids yesterday.

sorry. That's what I get myself for going to the fest for 5 days...

I heard about this yesterday from a friend in Ireland. It has been big news there for a few days.

I was in the building next door when it happened: it was on Tal, in the hotel right beside Burger King. Around 2:30pm about 5 fire trucks arrived, plus 4 small firemen's vans, 2 or 3 cop cars and a paramedics ambulance. Impressive alright. We were wondering if our building was burning down and somebody had forgotten to tell us.

I went downstairs and that when I asked the medics what was the matter and one of them explained there was a "Kaminstau". I am sure they already knew it was "someone" stuck in there and not just a case of dirty chimney but probably couldn't quite share it with the world yet.

Funny thing is it might have been a common chimney for a few buildings because although everyone was concentrating around the hotel and coming in and out of it, I saw one fireman head into the Burger King with some kind of cutting tool (according to my expert eye of course) and come back a few minutes later so maybe he had to gain access to the chimney this way? Or maybe he just had to use the jacks, don't know. Anyway why he came back out without a Whopper is beyond me.

Gotta love the irony of getting Hypothermia in a chimney. Also, a pretty creative drunk, going for the chimney. But, as pointed out, in the glockenbachvietel, you do get guys interested in dark passages.

KK