Dubai bars entry to the world's most pierced man
Rolf Buchholz, the world’ s most pierced man, has been barred from Dubai.
He had been turned back at the airport on his way to a hotel appearance reported local news paper Al-Emarat Al-Youm
Airport officials gave no reason for refusing entry to the 53-year-old German, who sports 453 piercings plus two horns on his forehead
They just put the information technology worker on a flight to Istanbul.
A spokesman for the hotel where Buchholz was scheduled to appear said its management had failed “despite all its attempts” to win permission for him to enter the emirate, the report added.
Dubai is considered the most open of the conservative Gulf monarchies.
Vowing never to return to Dubai though his luggage was still there, Buchholz revealed the reason that was given to him as to why he was denied entry via a series of tweets.
He was recognised as the world's most pierced man when the Guinness Book of Records gave him that title in 2012.
Source: AFP, Twitter
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