AggieDave 6 #1 January 28, 2004 You know, I'm a big rough kind of guy that likes getting his hands dirty and such, but you know, I *do* clean up, shower and put clean clothes on. Wow. And all this time I thought Germans were damn near anal about cleanliness. Clicky QuoteMan shuns bath for 18 years 27 January 2004 BERLIN - Police in Berlin were called in to deal with a man who has neglected to take a bath or shave for the past 18 years, according to press reports Tuesday. The self-styled urban hermit, identified only as Mario, also professed to not having changed his clothes since New Year's Day 2001. Investigating officers, who said they had no reason to doubt Mario's claims about his personal hygiene, were summoned after a chimneysweep reported discovering a "caveman" living in an abandoned apartment. The chimneysweep was trying to determine the source of smoke blockage in a flue when he happened upon the squatter, who had been using a blocked-off fireplace to keep warm. "I saw what I thought was a pile of dirty laundry in a corner until I realised it was an incredibly filthy man," the sweep told police. "When we got there we found the subject as described," officer Toralf Reinhardt told one Berlin newspaper. "He was cowering and shivering with fear like a cornered animal. It was like entering some wild creature's burrow," he said. "The stench was over-powering." After spending a night in a police cell, Mario was placed in a hospital for medical observation. "We had to call in a team of industrial cleaners to get the odour out of the police car and the cell afterward," Reinhardt said. DPA Subject: German news --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FrogNog 1 #2 January 28, 2004 Maybe he's a guest worker. -=-=-=-=- Pull. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darius11 12 #3 January 28, 2004 Damn. I kinda feel bad for the guy. take every thing but not my shower man.I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #4 January 28, 2004 QuoteThis reminds me of some packers I've seen! This reminds me of most of the freefliers I've seen Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #5 January 28, 2004 QuoteThis reminds me of most of the freefliers I've seen and all of the French Canuks....... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hookitt 1 #6 January 28, 2004 Quote This reminds me of most of the freefliers I've seen - -My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dustin19d 0 #7 January 28, 2004 QuoteAnd all this time I thought Germans were damn near anal about cleanliness. Have you ever been to Germany? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #8 January 28, 2004 QuoteHave you ever been to Germany? I have.....and I've never met a German named "Mario." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sdgregory 0 #9 January 28, 2004 QuoteI have.....and I've never met a German named "Mario." What a coincidence! I have never met and Itialian named Klaus! We have something in common beside Skydiving . . . and breathing oxygen, needing food and water. . . oh and sleeping. Hmm guess it ain't as big a deal as I thought. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #10 January 28, 2004 It could be a coincidence, you know, you don't have man boob's and relate with sheep... Oh man, the old jokes die hard, huh?--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
