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Sonntag April 17, 2005

"Planet of the Apes" in Hamburg
Since the weather is currently beautiful here in Hamburg, yesterday my wife and I decided to do a little picknick in a close-by park. Unfortunately I did not have a camera with me. Therefore, I have to use some old pictures from other people to give you some impressions of what I'm talking about.

The park we went to is located here and scenery looks about like this, this and this.

For the first hour it was very nice and quiet. The birds were singing, and some kids were playing on the playground. Our peaceful picknick came to an noisy end when the first people arrived at the finish line of an event that is called "Bierathlon" (= beer-athlon). At a Bierathlon two people have to carry a crate of beer (24 bottles) and run some miles. There are different strategies. Either you drink all the beer right in the beginning, so that you have to carry less weigth, or you drink them later in order to avoid becoming drunk before you reach the finish line. Again, since I did not have a camera with me, I can only provide a few old pictures that I digged out by searching the web. Look here, here, here,here, and here.

In the beginning my wife and I still found the whole thing funny because the people yesterday were also dressed up in Halloween-type costumes. However, when more and more people arrived it became louder and louder. But what was much worse and disgusting was that more and more people used the bushes to do what civilized people do in restrooms. Some people even did not try to keep distance to us and even asked us to look in a different direction. You should know that small kids were around, too.

Maybe I am what they call "spiessig" here in Germany (something like narrow-minded), but yesterday I thought for the first time that the very strict laws in California (no alcohol in public parks) made total sense to me. I personally think it is ridiculous to be forced to wrap "picknick wine" in brown paper and to drink wine out of mugs, but it is definitely not nice to watch "drunken apes" during day light in a public park where most people just want to relax and where kids play on the playground.
( Apr 17 2005, 05:05:27 PM CEST ) Permalink

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