Cologne Carnival: You're Pulled Onstage to Lift Her – intro video

Cologne, the morning of Women's Carnival Day, eleven sharp. You're an insurance salesman in town on business, suit and tie immaculate as you step into the old market square. Five steps in, a big pair of scissors goes snip, and your tie is gone. Its owner is a girl in a red-and-white uniform: “Congratulations, you've been snipped! By Cologne custom, I can kiss your cheek now... And my dance partner broke her leg this morning, and I go on stage at eleven eleven.”