Tourist Finds Thousands Lost By Drunk Oktoberfest Waiter

A teenage Oktoberfest visitor could not believe her eyes when she spotted this wallet stuffed with thousands of pounds lost by a drunken waiter.

The annual Oktoberfest in Munich in southern German city is the world’s largest beer festival, attracting annually around 6 million people from late September through the month of October to drink beer served by waiters in ‘lederhosen’ and waitresses in the traditional ‘dirndl’ dresses.

But at this year’s event, one of the waiters joined the guests in drinking beer after his shift was over, and apparently had rather too much.

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A full oktoberfest beer tent

The 37-year-old man, who is from neighbouring Austria and had travelled to Germany to work at the festival, still had the day’s takings on him stuffed into his wallet as he enjoyed the party.

But that cost him dearly when he discovered that the huge wallet stuffed with 3,756 EUR (3,331 GBP) in cash had gone missing.

The man, who was not named, had fallen asleep on the underground on the way home, and when he eventually woke up and finished the journey, he realised he had lost the wallet.

Luckily for the waiter, a 19-year-old girl who was also not named, found the wallet – bizarrely placed in a locker at the Munich main train station – when she went to deposit her bags there.

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The lost wallet

The teenage tourist, also an Austrian, from Graz in Styria, called the police to say she had found the wallet full of cash including Euros, some dollars and even a few Japanese Yen as well as tokens for beer and food at the Oktoberfest.

Police were then able to match the missing cash with the man who by this point had reported the loss. He has no recollection of how the wallet went missing and how it ended up in the locker.

The finder could be in for ten percent of the findings as the law states 10 percent of findings are to be given as a thank you to the finder.


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Story By: Kathryn Quinn, Sub-Editor:  Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News


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