The town of Raschala in Austria was so proud of the fact that Mozart stopped off for a Jimmy Riddle there once that they erected a Mozart Pinkelstein (“Mozart pee-stone”) to commemorate the historic event. Not content with immortalising it in stone, however, the local tourism board has decided that a more fitting tribute would be an annual festival of beer and music.
“Local people always remarked on the fact that there was so little to do here even Mozart only stopped long enough to take a pee before carrying on with his journey to Prague.
As far as we can tell he drove through our town in 1787 – and asked the horse-carriage driver to stop so he could take a leak.”
Whether or not this move will prompt Salzburg into commissioning a Mozart Scheissebrunnen down a back alley off the Kapitelplatz remains unclear.
[TheMetro]