Goods on the Müritz: Drivers are misguided by the navigation system and drive to the open

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There are people who trust their navigation device more than their own orientation: A car driver in Waren an der Müritz proved this in a rather inglorious way.

The man from Hesse wanted to go to a hotel, but instead drove to the nearby open-air stage, as reported by SVZ.de, among others.  

The driver had followed the navigation system, but pushed aside a warning beacon from the theater makers and drove his car onto the brightly lit theater grounds instead of to the hotel parking lot.

"Fortunately, the performance was interrupted because of a rain shower, so that nothing happened to anyone," said the director of the Müritz saga, Nils Düwell.

"The man drove on, turned around and got stuck"

"I told him he'd better stop the car, but the man kept driving, turned around and got stuck." The performance then had to be stopped, even though the rain had stopped.

The approximately 300 spectators took the incident with humor, as Düwell said.

You are invited to watch the end at the next performances.

The play "The Devil's Henchmen" is about the terror spread by mercenaries and robbers in Mecklenburg during the Thirty Years' War.

Directed by Düwell, a masked avenger ensures that peace is restored at the end.

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