When you think of innovations provided to the world by Germany, you think of beer and automobiles, but there's more. They can also knock your socks off with music.
It sounds like something out of a movie: a complete stranger rescues a man from a burning house and then just disappears. Well, it actually happened recently in Fresno, California.
The World Yo-Yo Contest had more ups and downs that this joke did groans, but it still brought out the best of the best in the surprisingly advanced art of the children's pastime.