Ever wonder how many beer glasses get swiped during Munich's Oktoberfest?Well, those that make it ain't telling, but according to the official post-Oktoberfest report, sharp eyed security types confiscated 145,500 glasses at the exits this year, which is down from the record 200,000 they found on drunken revelers last year.
That figure would have been much higher, but my wifey wasn't there this year. (She has a PhD in pint pilfering.)
Other interesting things at this year's Oktoberfest in Munich:
*the number of visitors dropped 5 percent (because of terrorism fears) but the amount of brew quaffed remained the same. 5.7 million people who showed up at the 16 day festival drank 6.5 million liters or 1.7 million gallons of beer (if my math is right....) and that is even with the price going up 6 percent.
*The total number of oxen eaten in the 14 giant tents reached an impressive 111, up from 104 last year, while sales of fried chicken fell 3 percent.
*The number of lost items fell to 4,100, including 1,250 items of clothing, 700 identity cards and passports, 420 wallets, 320 mobile phones and 75 cameras, a fishing rod, a chess clock, a toaster, a ballet skirt, three crutches, a miniature pinscher and a milk tooth. A total of 18 children were also lost but all of them were reclaimed.
*The Munich police reported collecting a total of 759 "beer corpses" -- people who had drunk themselves to oblivion. That was up sharply from 2008, when 565 were reported. Three people actually died -- an Australian man was run over by a local train after visiting the festival, a 51-year-old man choked on his own vomit and a reveller from England died when he fell out of his hotel room window while trying to urinate out of it.
Seriously??? A guy pissed himself to the pearly gates? Dang, them Germans sure know how to party.
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