Overview
- Local youth clubs reported a string of Maypole thefts across Upper Bavaria, with Auslöse talks underway for several trees as a customary payment for their return.
- A combined Inning–Allach crew took a 30‑metre pole from inside a secured biomass plant in Karlsfeld, and police later stopped the convoy, checked IDs and alcohol levels, and warned of possible charges including organized theft.
- Forstinning and Finsing teams used scouting, barricaded watch huts and tractors to move 30‑ to 35‑metre trunks across town lines.
- In Münsing passersby watched a daytime removal that could have been halted under custom by touching the trunk before the town sign and saying “The tree stays here.”
- In a separate caper the Inning group hauled away a 15‑metre practice pole near Schwaig, which organizers later said was a dummy for a planned Rome display rather than the real tree.