Big Gaudiwurm in Schongau inspires fools - carnival groups target politicians. 23 floats and groups of pedestrians snaked their way around Marienplatz like a worm of fun - and didn't just take aim at the traffic light policy.

The rural youth from Altenstadt took up the closure of the Schongsau hospital with a particularly elaborate carnival float. The CSU Schong Pau group, for example, was a pirate team on their own “Black Pearl” – as “traffic light men on a raid”