On the first night!
Boys let their maypole be stolen - now they are plotting revenge
Created: 03/23/2022, 22:14
By: Nico Bauer
Maypole thieves: The boys' clubs from Unterföhring and Moosinning stole their tree from the people of Ismaning.
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The joy of the maypole being taken down was short-lived in Ismaning.
The boys had it stolen from them on the very first night.
Ismaning - There is the thing - or rather: there it was.
Ismaning (Munich district) caught up with its new maypole on Saturday, but it moved on again on Sunday night.
The boys' clubs Unterföhring and Moosinning stole the tree.
The prelude to turbulent Maypole theft weeks.
Spectacular maypole theft in Ismaning - after just one day
With the new maypole, the Ismaninger Burschenverein had moved into a new storage location and it had the character of a presenter.
So far the tree has always been housed on a farm, now in a long tent on the fairground near the ice pond.
Right next to it is actually the guard hut and the boys had planned the security in detail, because it is known that a number of boys' clubs would be only too happy to take revenge for the Ismaninger thefts of the past years.
But to be honest: the self-confident lads' association had not believed that their own tree had been stolen, even if the guard location gave cause for concern.
"It's not that easy here," said Daniel Sigl, Ismaninger lads' board member.
He should be right.
After the first night the tree was gone.
Easy to win, easy to lose: The Ismaninger boys caught up with their maypole with a historic Eicher Bulldog.
A little later they were rid of him again.
© Dieter Michaelek
Boys' clubs steal the maypole from Ismaning: They struck shortly before the changing of the guard
The lads from Unterföhring and Moosinning missed the ideal moment and struck just before the morning watch change.
One layer wanted to go home and was locked in the hut when the next one wasn't there yet.
Then the thieves were quickly gone along a forest path in the Taxet and along the canal.
"They did really well," admits Ismaning's boy boss Sigl, "the theft on the first night is really blatant."
Sigl himself had made plans in the afternoon when hauling in which maypole the Ismaninger boys are going to steal this year.
"There's still room for a few more trees here," he said, looking at the camp tent.
He had already identified a goal: "We want the one from Unterföhring." The people of Ismaning have even started their first exploration tours in the region and are in the mood for theft.
After the theft of the Unterfoehringer maypole in 2016 and the maypole for the Viktualienmarkt in 2017, further crimes are to follow.
The people of Ismaning brought their tree to town with brass band music.
© Dieter Michaelek
After the spectacular maypole theft in Ismaning: negotiations are already underway
Now, of course, you are negotiating with the people of Unterföhring to get your own tree back.
In a week the maypole will arrive in Unterföhring.
"Then we'll see what happens in the next few weeks," says Sigl meaningfully.
The revenge theft in the neighboring town is bold and underlined at the top of the list of potential targets.
The Ismaning boys are now much more motivated to fulfill Mayor Alexander Greulich's wish to see the maypoles of Ismaning and Unterföhring next to each other at the fairground.
And for all Ismaningers who cannot admire their tree for the time being, here are the key data: It is 31 meters long, weighs around four tons and comes from a forest in Forstern.
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