Bless you, fellow Australians, and your general “fuck yeah” attitude towards doing dumb shit for the sake of a laugh.
A 34 year-old ‘Strayan bloke has found himself in the middle of a curious little eyebrow wrinkler, after getting hauled off a cross-European train by German Federal Police in Dresden.
Train staff had kicked the man off the vessel and called police in to deal with him due to his “outward appearance.”
Old m8 was dressed head to toe in Ninja Robes – complete with holsters for samurai swords.
The whole thing gets even better when you learn that, after questioning his motives, the full ledge in question revealed that the stunt was part of an enormous, country-spanning game of TRUTH OR DARE, and that his task was to drive a car to Budapest, and then return to Germany wearing only the ninja outfit, before hooning around his home town on a motorcycle of the same name.
What’s more, the sword holsters strapped to his back didn’t actually contain any swords.
They did, however, hold a pair of umbrellas.
Or, as the Google-translated press release puts it:
“In the Ninja passenger is a 34-year-old Australian, this was dressed from the hood to the shoes completely in black and had two putative Ninja swords, crossed worn in transport cases on the back. In this presentation and the alleged intention to create a stir if possible, the ninja ran several times through the train. The requested federal police could find no weapons law violation by the Australian, since it concerned two umbrellas on closer inspection the supposed Ninja swords.”
Despite all of this the 34 year-old was let go by authorities, as no actual crime had been committed, and “being a massive ledge/a bit of a pain in the butt” isn’t actually a crime.
Authorities merely asked him to maybe not dress quite as menacing in the future and sent him on his way.
You shudder to think what he’d have to fess up to if he’d have picked TRUTH.
