German Fun Facts, Part 1#

May poles are a Bavaria tradition, each town and village has their own may pole. A may pole is a great old tree that is cut down and all the branchs and bark is stripped off and its painted all sorts of different striped of colors to represent the village its from. The different villages and towns are all in competition with eachother to steal eachothers May poles. When and if a villages May pole goes missing and they cant find it, they go all right we cant find it who has it. Then at that point the village who took their May pole comes forward and say we have have it and to get it back the village has to have a huge party of the other village complete with beer and food and its a great celebration.
The Munich international airport has an May pole of their own and in the early 2000's their pole was stolen in the middle of the night from the secure zone of the airport. We're not talking about a hundred pound tree hear. We're talking a three hundred plus year old three weighing in at well over 2000 pounds. The Munich airport main personel come to work in the morning realize their veiw is not obstructed by a massive May pole and call the Munich city police. The police anwser with laughter and histarics. They had stolen the airport May pole and had hidden it. So the airport staff had to trough the Munich city police a massive party. One of the reasons why Germany is a fantastic place.
For Bavarian men to impress/ ask a women out on a date they make their own May pole and carry and plant it in the front yard of the persons house. If the women likes the guy she will come outside and bring him inside for a fun little time. If she does not like the guy she will get the guy a pack of beer from her house and give it to him to dull his pain. Good deal right! Heck I would just plant May poles in the front yards of women I know hate me so I can get beer. Done deal!