112,000 Oktoberfest 'muggings'
Tens of thousands of revellers who tried to steal beer mugs have set a new record for naughtiness at Oktoberfest, Germany's annual lager and lederhosen extravaganza, Bavarian police said Sunday.
(AFP) Tens of thousands of revellers who tried to steal beer mugs have set a new record for naughtiness at Oktoberfest, Germany's annual lager and lederhosen extravaganza, Bavarian police said Sunday.
While crime dropped at this year's festival in Munich, which ended Sunday, police said orderlies confiscated 112,000 of the traditional one-litre "Masskrug" beer mugs from "souvenir hunters" trying to smuggle them out of the fair grounds, up from 81,000 last year.
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