Drunk Danish Graduates by the Truckload

This past weekend the streets of Lyngby (as well as those all over the country) have been filled with trucks toting students finishing their final year in school (equivalent to our high school seniors in the states) on their traditional Danish celebration. The students decorate trucks with flags, banners and flowers. They then load up in the trucks of all sorts; moving trucks, pick up trucks, old military trucks etc... The students stand in the back waving beer bottles, flags and making as much noise as they can while they are transported to each one of their homes where their parents treat them to a little food and drink. As you can imagine they get louder and rowdier with each stop they make.

As we walked along Lyngby Hovedgade we were passed several times by different trucks. We were even lucky enough to see three guys mooning everyone behind them. (I can just see American parents horror and reaching for their childrens' eyes to shield them. Here, I think everyone just laughs) Often there are signs on the back of the trucks that will say honk 1 time for a cheers, 2 times for a drink, 3 times for a flash and different variants on it. As one of the trucks passed us (the one with the mooning boys) there was an overwhelming smell of alcohol wreaking from it. haha.

Since we live mere steps away from Lyngby Hovedgade we were able to hear the screaming, singing, chanting, hooting and hollering students along with all the honking cars congratulating them all day long Friday and Saturday both at home and at the gym. About once every two hours the noise got increasingly louder as a truckload would drive past our flat. I love stuff like this in Denmark. This could never happen in the states for 100 different reasons, but it is so perfectly Danish.

I didn't have my camera or video camera on me while we were walking the streets but I got a couple videos from our windows.