Overview

• Two friends, aged 12 and 13, slipped out of their Bensheim homes to satisfy a late-night craving for burgers and fries.
• An ambulance crew noticed the boys wandering on the empty Berliner Ring and alerted a police patrol.
• Officers informed them that the McDonald’s they aimed to visit had closed at 1 AM and would reopen at 7 AM.
• The pair was spared a walk back and instead rode in a police car to their parents’ homes.
• A police spokesperson said their hunger from the failed excursion was likely satisfied later in the day.