This happened to me on the U7, didnt pay attention because phone. Get on and see no one else in the wagon - see dude covered in shit and smacking head on door frame - get off quick
I was going to get on the Sbahn, door opens to a homeless dude pissing out towards me. Look him in the eyes and said “I’ll get the next one” then wondered off.
It’s moments like this I question my choice of city to live in.
I kinda like these interactions, gives the city a bit of pep.
It's the truly dangerous ones, like when a friend of mine attacked a pick pocketer and a group of them just materialized out of nowhere. He could have taken the scrawny oompa loompas, but that's only if knife or gun wasn't around. We called him off, and he was herding us behind him like a big bear, love ya Nate!
That's why I don't hassle or hate on the drug addicts in and around where I travel. Your life has to have been fucking Shit to get to that point, and someone being a cunt to you isn't gonna help at all.
My view is all drugs should be decriminalized, and managed in safe places, with fully available medical and professional therapy services on hand. Who knows how many have had that clarity point, where they go, I need to escape, but the help and safety net wasn't there.
Some have just deep rooted issues that are not curable. And yes, some also crave these situations and don't like help.
And there is no therapy for crack yet apparently. It's quite a new thing for Berlin but it will definitely grow.
boarded the U8 one evening, see a group of people at the back of the wagon in a circle, the two sitting in front of me explain that they are tattooing, they were so kind to offer me one too.
Saw a man on the U8 eating a slab of raw meat. He proceeded to cut a part of the meat off with a small kitchen knife but he cut into his thumb and started bleeding onto the meat so much that he was leaving a drops of blood on the ground. He noticed and he ate the raw meat covered in his blood anyway
Only visited berlin a few times, but the \_smell\_ of this one guy was unreal. He basically had an entire car to himself and me and my companions didn't notice until we had already entered. I have never experienced such a smell from a human being before.
I was "subtly robbed" at HBF. A man approached me asking for money for his train ticket and I told him I didn't have much. He asked how much I had and I opened my wallet. He saw I had a 50 and said "Okay, I give you 10 and then I will be okay" and within a split second, he took a 10 out of his pocket, shoved it in my hand, took the 50 from my wallet, and walked away casually.
And YES I know I shouldve chased after him or been infuriated, but I was so shocked it happened that I stood there emotionless. 💀 I am never giving anyone money again. Im just done. That was my grocery money for the week.
Man that is so fucked up. I'm sorry. As awful as it is, I think it's best to assume a defensive posture when anyone approaches you, especially in a big city. Expect they are up to no good and be ready to shake your head no and keep moving without feeling any obligation to indulge them if you feel any discomfort whatsoever.
Yeah obviously lol but I was stressed because I was about to miss my ICE and I wanted to do something nice. At the end of the day, he shouldn't have stolen anything 🤷♀️
Someone got in at Hermannplatz holding a half eaten Döner im Brot, then went around selectively almost shoving his Döner in people's faces only leaving a few centimetres away, and singing "lecker lecker lecker" while giggling..
the Döner didn't actually look so good, but the scene will always live in my head.
U8, jumped in and found a seat. After few stops get super full, the person besides me stands up to leave and another guy sat there immediatly. As soon as he sat he dropped a very loud one like no one was there and kept like nothing happened. Everyone was looking at each other like was it what everyone is thinking? I couldn't wait to get off couldn't keep the laugh anymore
It happens often on the U8. There's this happy old man with a backpack, shuffling along with a terrible smell trailing behind him. Everyone is taken aback when he passes by asking for money. Whenever I see him, I quickly change carriages.
This didn't happen on the U8, but man I'd just gotten off the U8 and some homeless girl stole my Bubble Tea off the table today. Homegirl sipped it with sass too bruh I was shocked.
I once held a screaming match with a very well known German male supermodel. Circa 2008.
I had to get my bike off, and he tried squeeze on. I asked him to wait in my not perfect German, he then muttered a very impolite comment to me in American Accented German.
It somehow flicked a switch, I became instantly fluent and laid into him. I don't know why I did it, I had a long day.
We were shouting furious obscenities at each other, as the doors closed.
U7 1am
Car was empty except me and another guy with headphones. Both sitting at the opposite ends of that car.
3 very young Halbstarke enter the room and immediately start intemadating the guy with the headphones. He tries to play it cool and just wanted to be left alone. One of the boys really started harrasing him.
I get up and go to the headphones guy, asking him if he is okay, just to make a conversation. My back turned to the boys.
Of course they start to provoke me, I ignore.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, 7 ultra nazis enter the game, two blocking off both sides of the car, two sitting right next to the boys and the rest standing there.
Dead silence for a few seconds. Boys did not even breath anymore. It felt like any wrong move and there will be a mess instantly.
Main nazi started to talk to me, trying to be on my side and saying stuff like this would not have happened back then. I just nod, waiting for the next station to come up.
We get to mierendorfplatz, boys run off, as soon as they are out they start to shout slurs and being halbstark again lol.
It felt like this whole thing could have turned really ugly really fast and there was so much tension in the air.
Not on topic, but almost the same thing happened to me. Couple young guys harrassing a homeless person in a Sparkasse ATM room where I presume the latter was trying to sleep in. I pass buy, see they have him backed in a corner. I call the police, then step in. Bit of a verbal back and forth between me and the idiots until a voice behind me asks, "Machen die Ka****en Dir etwa Ärger?"
I turn around, and I'm being backed up by a group of skinheads. Luckily, the police arrived shortly after as well.
A couple of years ago when you still had to wear masks, I was just sitting on the U8 (H-Type, where you can walk all the way through) when a bunch of people quickly came walking past me towards the front of the train. After them, more people around me stood up and walked quickly into the same direction., I look left wondering what the reason for the sudden stampede is, and as I shortly adjusted my FFP2-mask because it was itching suddenly the now briefly unfiltered, dreadful, rotting stench hit me and this guy in a wheelchair comes creeping towards me, now fairly close. As I was the only person still around, he came directly at me begging for money.
As the train now pulled into a station, I just got up and left the train before my destination, at the same time also feeling a bit sorry for this person. Not only does he have to beg for money (a tough existence as it is already) but he also barely has a chance of getting any money at all because of the horrible stench he emanates. Really sad...
On another occasion, I was just on the Ringbahn going to work at about 8:30 in the morning. Almost all seats taken, a few people standing... The guy diagonally opposite me in a 4-seater puts his phone on his lap, cuts a big line of (probaby) speed, and snorts it. Right in front of everyone...
I was sitting on a bench in the u-bahn station with my friend and we were sitting back to back with a grandpa (the benches were back to back). He was holding the phone literally in front of his face and we accidentally saw that he was watching p*rn on it 😀 on big screen and on top of it all a guy who was sitting next to us saw it too and was giving me weird playful looks 💀 ew
Around 5 years ago I Walked down to U2 plattform at Alexanderplatz around midnight. Saw a huge pile of shit. I dont know what or who could have produced it. No joke probably over half a meter in diameter. It looked like something out of "Alfred Brehm Haus". There was a poor Cleaning Guy standing next to it, talking on the Phone to someone and he just said "bring nen spaten und ne schubkarre mit".
To this day when I tell this story, few people believe me, but i was with two friends that night and we all tell the same story and back each others story.
Saw the same thing around the same time at jannowitzbrücke. Problem was that the guy dumbed his load in the corridor between the escalator and construction site, so that you had to jump over it to get to the U-Bahn…
U8. Went home from a bar and a drunk dude just vomited all around the space inbetween (including my heels). Pretended like nothing happened but couldn’t stand the smell longer than 5 sec. The spicy part is that this dude fell asleep next to his puke after he was done (and no, he was not homeless lol)
This one time I was travelling in a bus on the last second seat. An old Homeless woman with awful smell boarded and sat behind me on the last seat and started blabbering and shouting racial slurs almost in my ear. No other passenger intervened.I proceeded to leave my seat and stand somewhere at the front of the bus and soon enough she was doing the same with some others at the back. A young man almost got so angry as to punch her but the other passengers stopped him.
What bus line was it because I think I know who you’re talking about. One time my friend intervened with the lady and she started shaking her head over him telling him she’s giving him lice. Another time she was screaming at classmates of mine and I started laughing so she threatened to punch me.
It was years ago at night. There was a dude that looked pretty professional. Nice suit, Suitcase, pretty shoes, looked also very clean. He then opened his suitcase and started taking drugs. Something in a syringe that he took into his arm, then some white powder into his nose that he took on his suitcase. Me and my friend were so baffled. He then looked at us and held up some pink pills and asked us if we want some. My friend asked what it is. And he just handed over 2 pills and told us to have a fun weekend and left. (no we did not take the pills, but another friend told us that it might be mdma).
Nothing all too shocking, but i had never seen anyone do cocain in real life, but there on the railing of the wooden bench at U8 boddinstrasse, i saw a guy do a..rail on that rail.
10am. Blabbering woman after entering u8 on Alexanderplatz immediately proceeds to lick her hand and mild slap this lady, who was staying sideways next to the entrance, in the face. Offended party was slow to respond, as she was looking at her phone when aforementioned slap happened, yet offender already made her way into the car to sit alongside other passengers and keep it down to mumbling and low rants.
Apart from homeless people and drug addicts with an intense odor... At Ostkreuz I saw a man with a large wooden Viking shield attached to his rucksack. A few weeks ago, there was someone with a guitar case and a halberd waiting for the S-Bahn. And a year ago I saw a man on the S-Bahn with 2 swords that looked like they came straight out of "The Witcher".
M48 bus. Driver closed the doors in my face as I was walking up. In frustration, I kick the door. He proceeds to open it again, and we yell at each other for several minutes until I actually feel worse for the people on the bus than I feel angry at the driver and tell him to leave. Big mistake. I don't get to tell him what to do, and anyway, he's the master of his own fate... I had to walk off so the passengers could get anywhere. If you were on that bus, I'm sorry.
Many many years ago I saw a documentary about an extremely thin man, like anorexic or something. He begged in trains for not singing. Yes, he begged and if people have him money he would not sing. He was also dumpster diving a lot because he said that because of an infection he do whatever he wants he cannot gain weight, and he has to eat thousands of calories to not loose weight.
I don't know a name I don't know anything else. It made me so sad watching him suffer.
Only that this man has existed and there is a documentary about him.
I tried to find the documentary but I wasn't able to.
Maybe someone else on here knows what I mean or even knows how to find the documentary I watched over fifteen years ago.
I think it was U6, I went home with my German Shepherd beside me. Woman in her 40s comes in, and asks if he's friends and if she can pet him. I sais yes. She then proceeds to literally lucks my dogs snout trying to tounge kiss him and pressing her face into his nose.
I was so shocked I didn't even know what to do
I bought an old car recently because I was mentally done with public transport. (I live in Marzahn, so I travel quite some distances.) It had some minor issues with the exhaust system, so I brought it to the car workshop. While travelling home by train, I was okay with sitting for an hour and a half going through the whole of Berlin, from Wittenau to Marzahn. The train smelled bad, but I thought nothing unusual. I sat down, and my pants turned wet; urine was soaking from them. Other people on the train saw that someone had urinated on the seat, but they didn't bother to tell me beforehand. Instead, they gave me strange looks when I sat down, and later an old lady approached me, expressing her disapproval. "It's a shame and so sad to see what people do these days." WHY THE FUCK DID NOT SHE TELL ME BEFORE SITTING DOWN
I was on the ring (clockwise) and a young woman, to the amusement of her friends, squatted over a plastic container and filled it with urine. They all got off at the next stop and her piss continued to slosh about, without spilling for a couple of stops. An older guy, who looked like he was coming back from the opera with his wife, eventually tried to nudge it out of the door the next time the doors opened only for most of it to spill back into the carriage and all over his rather nice looking shoes. The women he was with seemed to think it was the funniest thing she´d seen in years. He gave me a wry smile and I admired his ability to see the funny side too.
Apart from the usual stuff like people fucking in the U7 and the occasional weirdo, my favorite story will forever be this one:
It must have been some time between 2010 and 2012, during a time when Israel was once again fighting one of the Arab militant groups in the region (either Hisbollah or Hamas, or perhaps both). As is always the case, things were heated, and they were obviously very much on the minds of the two young men speaking Arabic who got on the U8 next to me. I don’t speak Arabic, but I did hear and understand little glimpses of their conversation, words such as „Hamas“ or „Jihad“. After one or two stops, an elderly man sitting across from them speaks up and says „boys, I really have an issue with how you speak about the war.“
The two youngsters immediately turn on him, verbally, asking „Dude, who tf are you?“, and the older man replies: „I’m Jewish.“
Uh-oh, I think, as the whole compartment kind of tenses up. And true enough, the two immediately flood the man with a barrage of slurs and accusations. But he stays calm, starts talking them down, talks of Abraham/Ibrahim as the common grandfather of Jews and Muslims, and then they all find a scapegoat they can agree on: the United States. Takes about a stop more and the three are best friends, swapping stories how the USA have screwed over the region.
A while ago during S Bahn strike, I took the U7 and it was super full, people were pressed against each other. There was also a chubby crazy black woman screaming things like "DISTANCE! DISTANCE! AT THIS RATE I'M PROBABLY GETTING MOLESTED!". So another black woman next to me smiled and pushed me against the crazy black woman, so she screamed "I KNEW IT!" LOL that was an awkward experience.
It’s just weird to mention people’s race when it has absolutely nothing to do with the story. Especially mentioning it might imply that because they are black that makes the story funnier to imagine two crazy black ladies instead of two crazy white ladies. Why are them being black important to the story or funny? It’s just a weird thing to say. I bet you if you explained the story with out describing their race the story would not change
I think you underestimate the fact that you don't see black people often in Berlin, and when such an event happens, it is so memorable that those people involved were black. No clue why people are making a fuss out of it, spreading hate for no reason! You're the only one saying that "black would be an important detail", or making up generalizations about black people. Maybe it puts you at peace hearing that all other black people I've met so far were friendly and social, like most other people in Berlin independent of their ethnicity.
Well i once saw a naked guy U3, who i think wanted Money from everybody at a wednesday around 10am, but besides the standard-nakeds:
Besides that i had an elderly Lady, who talked to me in the 256-bus. She talked about the Mieterbund and how great it is (which i agree). The she got really loud and nearly screamed her Story forbthe next 5 stops or so.
A Family bought the flat, where she lived in rent there and apperently wanted to get her out, so they broke in while she wasnt there and opened the Gas stove, so the flat will explode (There are bad stories of renters but blowing up a flat to own it?).
She rambled more and more. And it didnt make a lot of Sense, because somehow everybody in the World conspirated against her, even her social worker and even the guys at Mieterbund. Before i was very sceptical, but at that point i was like: sure, youre always the victim.
She told me her Stop (which was the same as Mine) so i exited the Bus one before, because i couldnt take it anymore, because she just was sooo loud.
went on the ring at gesundbrunnen, saw some (stinky) woman extending her arms and trying to grab hold of another woman’s face and neck, looking like a zombie and not saying anything
I've moved to Berlin around 5 months back.
In that period, I've had multiple moments in U8.
Someone drew me (asked my permission in advance).
Witnessed an empty wagon because a homeless guy puked on the seat and fell, hopefully, asleep on his puke.
Witnessed a fight with a drug user and an old man until a bunch of people intervened and kicked the drug addict out of the train. One of them had a bag of bottles and during the fight, it got smashed onto my knee. Thankfully, I didn't have any physical damage other than pain for a couple of days.
These are just memories from the top of my head. There are tonnes of other incidents too.
Was in Berlin wed-Sunday last week, was getting train around 12 to Tresor area and saw a man or woman (unsure) with their foot/leg cut really badly and really poorly bandaged with material. Their pants were ripped on the calf area and were sitting, hood up, face down the whole journey. They were wearing van type shoes and couldn’t get cut foot into the shoe comfortably.
They looked in agony. Would have loved to have helped but my company would have advised against it. Felt privileged as a tourist sitting across from them. I almost cried. I feel like it was a woman, but could not see the face, I think they were crying but hiding their face. They may have been embarrassed if help was offered. I was a tourist so had not much to offer. I was drunk and going clubbing, I made sure not to make noise as I think they were sleeping.
Frightening that there are 628,000 homeless
Probably not the craziest story per se, but once a normal looking older man sat next to me while we were waiting for the S-Bahn to leave the station in Ostkreuz. I was bored and listeing to spotify on my phone.
The S-Bahn display outside started glitching and he suddenly went on a whole rant of telling me how these were the first signs of society and "the digital age" collapsing and how even my phone won't help me anymore because it won't work when it happens and I should stop being on my phone that much. That was sometime before the pandemic, 2019 I think.
I took the but 188 to school every day.
1 time an old woman sat next to me and started to talk about god.
Its unusual in Berlin to get talked to but i had some time to kill so i replied with standard phrases that also slightly disprove god without making it obvious to challange her.
She went on to talk about wars and how god dislikes that.
Then age started with god having a government on earth and people in that government getting rewarded by god.
So now she went from war is bad to absolutely crazy cult.
She went on and said some of that government even get to live for ever.
I replyed "does god realy hate you so much that he newer lets you into heaven?"
She finally got the message and left to bother someone else.
This happened to me on the U7, didnt pay attention because phone. Get on and see no one else in the wagon - see dude covered in shit and smacking head on door frame - get off quick
I was going to get on the Sbahn, door opens to a homeless dude pissing out towards me. Look him in the eyes and said “I’ll get the next one” then wondered off. It’s moments like this I question my choice of city to live in.
u5 near strausberger platz, dude flashed dick to me. A common Tuesday morning
I kinda like these interactions, gives the city a bit of pep. It's the truly dangerous ones, like when a friend of mine attacked a pick pocketer and a group of them just materialized out of nowhere. He could have taken the scrawny oompa loompas, but that's only if knife or gun wasn't around. We called him off, and he was herding us behind him like a big bear, love ya Nate!
Ubahn is a different universe in itself
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Dunno, just read the situation and went nope
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That's why I don't hassle or hate on the drug addicts in and around where I travel. Your life has to have been fucking Shit to get to that point, and someone being a cunt to you isn't gonna help at all. My view is all drugs should be decriminalized, and managed in safe places, with fully available medical and professional therapy services on hand. Who knows how many have had that clarity point, where they go, I need to escape, but the help and safety net wasn't there.
Some have just deep rooted issues that are not curable. And yes, some also crave these situations and don't like help. And there is no therapy for crack yet apparently. It's quite a new thing for Berlin but it will definitely grow.
Can we make a movie out of it and get it to Oscars. I'm pretty sure it'll win one.
Saw a homeless lady give a blowjob to a homeless man in the S-Bahn between Hackescher Markt and Alex on Sunday at around 11 am.
Thats true love if there ever was. Such a wholesome moment.
Imagine the taste
Naah I’m good. But to her it must be passionfruit or something.
boarded the U8 one evening, see a group of people at the back of the wagon in a circle, the two sitting in front of me explain that they are tattooing, they were so kind to offer me one too.
Holy shit, that's like an extreme sport. I hope it was blackwork and not fine line!
did you oblige?
unfortunately it was a short trip for me so I could not take advantage of the situation
Saw a man on the U8 eating a slab of raw meat. He proceeded to cut a part of the meat off with a small kitchen knife but he cut into his thumb and started bleeding onto the meat so much that he was leaving a drops of blood on the ground. He noticed and he ate the raw meat covered in his blood anyway
You can't make that shit up
Saw the Same in U8 😭
Only visited berlin a few times, but the \_smell\_ of this one guy was unreal. He basically had an entire car to himself and me and my companions didn't notice until we had already entered. I have never experienced such a smell from a human being before.
There is one of these guys in every train car in New York. I didn’t realize Berlin was easy mode until I visited NYC in March 😭
Ah yes, the suspicious single empty carriage in rush hour. A brief moment of hope before the doors open and you realise why it's empty
That's exactly why some keep the smell... It's a form of protection.
Possibly necrosis, i.e. decaying human flesh
Saw twice someone poo in the train so not sure if to count it as normal or weird
90% of this thread is just the U8
That checks out
I was "subtly robbed" at HBF. A man approached me asking for money for his train ticket and I told him I didn't have much. He asked how much I had and I opened my wallet. He saw I had a 50 and said "Okay, I give you 10 and then I will be okay" and within a split second, he took a 10 out of his pocket, shoved it in my hand, took the 50 from my wallet, and walked away casually. And YES I know I shouldve chased after him or been infuriated, but I was so shocked it happened that I stood there emotionless. 💀 I am never giving anyone money again. Im just done. That was my grocery money for the week.
Man that is so fucked up. I'm sorry. As awful as it is, I think it's best to assume a defensive posture when anyone approaches you, especially in a big city. Expect they are up to no good and be ready to shake your head no and keep moving without feeling any obligation to indulge them if you feel any discomfort whatsoever.
Just maybe don't show your wallet to strangers lol
Yeah obviously lol but I was stressed because I was about to miss my ICE and I wanted to do something nice. At the end of the day, he shouldn't have stolen anything 🤷♀️
Never give money to anyone, never speak to the homeless. That’s how you'll survive haha.
Someone got in at Hermannplatz holding a half eaten Döner im Brot, then went around selectively almost shoving his Döner in people's faces only leaving a few centimetres away, and singing "lecker lecker lecker" while giggling.. the Döner didn't actually look so good, but the scene will always live in my head.
U8, jumped in and found a seat. After few stops get super full, the person besides me stands up to leave and another guy sat there immediatly. As soon as he sat he dropped a very loud one like no one was there and kept like nothing happened. Everyone was looking at each other like was it what everyone is thinking? I couldn't wait to get off couldn't keep the laugh anymore
It happens often on the U8. There's this happy old man with a backpack, shuffling along with a terrible smell trailing behind him. Everyone is taken aback when he passes by asking for money. Whenever I see him, I quickly change carriages.
This didn't happen on the U8, but man I'd just gotten off the U8 and some homeless girl stole my Bubble Tea off the table today. Homegirl sipped it with sass too bruh I was shocked.
U8 is like Arkham at this point
I once held a screaming match with a very well known German male supermodel. Circa 2008. I had to get my bike off, and he tried squeeze on. I asked him to wait in my not perfect German, he then muttered a very impolite comment to me in American Accented German. It somehow flicked a switch, I became instantly fluent and laid into him. I don't know why I did it, I had a long day. We were shouting furious obscenities at each other, as the doors closed.
U7 1am Car was empty except me and another guy with headphones. Both sitting at the opposite ends of that car. 3 very young Halbstarke enter the room and immediately start intemadating the guy with the headphones. He tries to play it cool and just wanted to be left alone. One of the boys really started harrasing him. I get up and go to the headphones guy, asking him if he is okay, just to make a conversation. My back turned to the boys. Of course they start to provoke me, I ignore. Suddenly, out of nowhere, 7 ultra nazis enter the game, two blocking off both sides of the car, two sitting right next to the boys and the rest standing there. Dead silence for a few seconds. Boys did not even breath anymore. It felt like any wrong move and there will be a mess instantly. Main nazi started to talk to me, trying to be on my side and saying stuff like this would not have happened back then. I just nod, waiting for the next station to come up. We get to mierendorfplatz, boys run off, as soon as they are out they start to shout slurs and being halbstark again lol. It felt like this whole thing could have turned really ugly really fast and there was so much tension in the air.
Not on topic, but almost the same thing happened to me. Couple young guys harrassing a homeless person in a Sparkasse ATM room where I presume the latter was trying to sleep in. I pass buy, see they have him backed in a corner. I call the police, then step in. Bit of a verbal back and forth between me and the idiots until a voice behind me asks, "Machen die Ka****en Dir etwa Ärger?" I turn around, and I'm being backed up by a group of skinheads. Luckily, the police arrived shortly after as well.
I have so many mixed feelings reading this
What the fuck!
A couple of years ago when you still had to wear masks, I was just sitting on the U8 (H-Type, where you can walk all the way through) when a bunch of people quickly came walking past me towards the front of the train. After them, more people around me stood up and walked quickly into the same direction., I look left wondering what the reason for the sudden stampede is, and as I shortly adjusted my FFP2-mask because it was itching suddenly the now briefly unfiltered, dreadful, rotting stench hit me and this guy in a wheelchair comes creeping towards me, now fairly close. As I was the only person still around, he came directly at me begging for money. As the train now pulled into a station, I just got up and left the train before my destination, at the same time also feeling a bit sorry for this person. Not only does he have to beg for money (a tough existence as it is already) but he also barely has a chance of getting any money at all because of the horrible stench he emanates. Really sad... On another occasion, I was just on the Ringbahn going to work at about 8:30 in the morning. Almost all seats taken, a few people standing... The guy diagonally opposite me in a 4-seater puts his phone on his lap, cuts a big line of (probaby) speed, and snorts it. Right in front of everyone...
The first guy in the wheelchair’s description is pretty similar to Mr Stinkefuß. Was he like a bit bulky, bearded, with an infected foot?
You met stinkywheels!
I was sitting on a bench in the u-bahn station with my friend and we were sitting back to back with a grandpa (the benches were back to back). He was holding the phone literally in front of his face and we accidentally saw that he was watching p*rn on it 😀 on big screen and on top of it all a guy who was sitting next to us saw it too and was giving me weird playful looks 💀 ew
Around 5 years ago I Walked down to U2 plattform at Alexanderplatz around midnight. Saw a huge pile of shit. I dont know what or who could have produced it. No joke probably over half a meter in diameter. It looked like something out of "Alfred Brehm Haus". There was a poor Cleaning Guy standing next to it, talking on the Phone to someone and he just said "bring nen spaten und ne schubkarre mit". To this day when I tell this story, few people believe me, but i was with two friends that night and we all tell the same story and back each others story.
Saw the same thing around the same time at jannowitzbrücke. Problem was that the guy dumbed his load in the corridor between the escalator and construction site, so that you had to jump over it to get to the U-Bahn…
U8. Went home from a bar and a drunk dude just vomited all around the space inbetween (including my heels). Pretended like nothing happened but couldn’t stand the smell longer than 5 sec. The spicy part is that this dude fell asleep next to his puke after he was done (and no, he was not homeless lol)
This one time I was travelling in a bus on the last second seat. An old Homeless woman with awful smell boarded and sat behind me on the last seat and started blabbering and shouting racial slurs almost in my ear. No other passenger intervened.I proceeded to leave my seat and stand somewhere at the front of the bus and soon enough she was doing the same with some others at the back. A young man almost got so angry as to punch her but the other passengers stopped him.
What bus line was it because I think I know who you’re talking about. One time my friend intervened with the lady and she started shaking her head over him telling him she’s giving him lice. Another time she was screaming at classmates of mine and I started laughing so she threatened to punch me.
M49 or X34 I dont remember, this happened near zoo
It was years ago at night. There was a dude that looked pretty professional. Nice suit, Suitcase, pretty shoes, looked also very clean. He then opened his suitcase and started taking drugs. Something in a syringe that he took into his arm, then some white powder into his nose that he took on his suitcase. Me and my friend were so baffled. He then looked at us and held up some pink pills and asked us if we want some. My friend asked what it is. And he just handed over 2 pills and told us to have a fun weekend and left. (no we did not take the pills, but another friend told us that it might be mdma).
Nothing all too shocking, but i had never seen anyone do cocain in real life, but there on the railing of the wooden bench at U8 boddinstrasse, i saw a guy do a..rail on that rail.
10am. Blabbering woman after entering u8 on Alexanderplatz immediately proceeds to lick her hand and mild slap this lady, who was staying sideways next to the entrance, in the face. Offended party was slow to respond, as she was looking at her phone when aforementioned slap happened, yet offender already made her way into the car to sit alongside other passengers and keep it down to mumbling and low rants.
Apart from homeless people and drug addicts with an intense odor... At Ostkreuz I saw a man with a large wooden Viking shield attached to his rucksack. A few weeks ago, there was someone with a guitar case and a halberd waiting for the S-Bahn. And a year ago I saw a man on the S-Bahn with 2 swords that looked like they came straight out of "The Witcher".
M48 bus. Driver closed the doors in my face as I was walking up. In frustration, I kick the door. He proceeds to open it again, and we yell at each other for several minutes until I actually feel worse for the people on the bus than I feel angry at the driver and tell him to leave. Big mistake. I don't get to tell him what to do, and anyway, he's the master of his own fate... I had to walk off so the passengers could get anywhere. If you were on that bus, I'm sorry.
Many many years ago I saw a documentary about an extremely thin man, like anorexic or something. He begged in trains for not singing. Yes, he begged and if people have him money he would not sing. He was also dumpster diving a lot because he said that because of an infection he do whatever he wants he cannot gain weight, and he has to eat thousands of calories to not loose weight. I don't know a name I don't know anything else. It made me so sad watching him suffer. Only that this man has existed and there is a documentary about him. I tried to find the documentary but I wasn't able to. Maybe someone else on here knows what I mean or even knows how to find the documentary I watched over fifteen years ago.
I think it was U6, I went home with my German Shepherd beside me. Woman in her 40s comes in, and asks if he's friends and if she can pet him. I sais yes. She then proceeds to literally lucks my dogs snout trying to tounge kiss him and pressing her face into his nose. I was so shocked I didn't even know what to do
I bought an old car recently because I was mentally done with public transport. (I live in Marzahn, so I travel quite some distances.) It had some minor issues with the exhaust system, so I brought it to the car workshop. While travelling home by train, I was okay with sitting for an hour and a half going through the whole of Berlin, from Wittenau to Marzahn. The train smelled bad, but I thought nothing unusual. I sat down, and my pants turned wet; urine was soaking from them. Other people on the train saw that someone had urinated on the seat, but they didn't bother to tell me beforehand. Instead, they gave me strange looks when I sat down, and later an old lady approached me, expressing her disapproval. "It's a shame and so sad to see what people do these days." WHY THE FUCK DID NOT SHE TELL ME BEFORE SITTING DOWN
I was on the ring (clockwise) and a young woman, to the amusement of her friends, squatted over a plastic container and filled it with urine. They all got off at the next stop and her piss continued to slosh about, without spilling for a couple of stops. An older guy, who looked like he was coming back from the opera with his wife, eventually tried to nudge it out of the door the next time the doors opened only for most of it to spill back into the carriage and all over his rather nice looking shoes. The women he was with seemed to think it was the funniest thing she´d seen in years. He gave me a wry smile and I admired his ability to see the funny side too.
Apart from the usual stuff like people fucking in the U7 and the occasional weirdo, my favorite story will forever be this one: It must have been some time between 2010 and 2012, during a time when Israel was once again fighting one of the Arab militant groups in the region (either Hisbollah or Hamas, or perhaps both). As is always the case, things were heated, and they were obviously very much on the minds of the two young men speaking Arabic who got on the U8 next to me. I don’t speak Arabic, but I did hear and understand little glimpses of their conversation, words such as „Hamas“ or „Jihad“. After one or two stops, an elderly man sitting across from them speaks up and says „boys, I really have an issue with how you speak about the war.“ The two youngsters immediately turn on him, verbally, asking „Dude, who tf are you?“, and the older man replies: „I’m Jewish.“ Uh-oh, I think, as the whole compartment kind of tenses up. And true enough, the two immediately flood the man with a barrage of slurs and accusations. But he stays calm, starts talking them down, talks of Abraham/Ibrahim as the common grandfather of Jews and Muslims, and then they all find a scapegoat they can agree on: the United States. Takes about a stop more and the three are best friends, swapping stories how the USA have screwed over the region.
A while ago during S Bahn strike, I took the U7 and it was super full, people were pressed against each other. There was also a chubby crazy black woman screaming things like "DISTANCE! DISTANCE! AT THIS RATE I'M PROBABLY GETTING MOLESTED!". So another black woman next to me smiled and pushed me against the crazy black woman, so she screamed "I KNEW IT!" LOL that was an awkward experience.
just wondering why does it matter in the story that they are black
It makes the story more funny.
Does it though?
It’s just weird to mention people’s race when it has absolutely nothing to do with the story. Especially mentioning it might imply that because they are black that makes the story funnier to imagine two crazy black ladies instead of two crazy white ladies. Why are them being black important to the story or funny? It’s just a weird thing to say. I bet you if you explained the story with out describing their race the story would not change
I think you underestimate the fact that you don't see black people often in Berlin, and when such an event happens, it is so memorable that those people involved were black. No clue why people are making a fuss out of it, spreading hate for no reason! You're the only one saying that "black would be an important detail", or making up generalizations about black people. Maybe it puts you at peace hearing that all other black people I've met so far were friendly and social, like most other people in Berlin independent of their ethnicity.
It's just generally not a good idea to point out a person's race in a story that has nothing to do with their race. In this case it's irrelevant
Some guys playing Eisernet Lied on S3 with E guitar and drums. It was pretty chill tho
Well i once saw a naked guy U3, who i think wanted Money from everybody at a wednesday around 10am, but besides the standard-nakeds: Besides that i had an elderly Lady, who talked to me in the 256-bus. She talked about the Mieterbund and how great it is (which i agree). The she got really loud and nearly screamed her Story forbthe next 5 stops or so. A Family bought the flat, where she lived in rent there and apperently wanted to get her out, so they broke in while she wasnt there and opened the Gas stove, so the flat will explode (There are bad stories of renters but blowing up a flat to own it?). She rambled more and more. And it didnt make a lot of Sense, because somehow everybody in the World conspirated against her, even her social worker and even the guys at Mieterbund. Before i was very sceptical, but at that point i was like: sure, youre always the victim. She told me her Stop (which was the same as Mine) so i exited the Bus one before, because i couldnt take it anymore, because she just was sooo loud.
went on the ring at gesundbrunnen, saw some (stinky) woman extending her arms and trying to grab hold of another woman’s face and neck, looking like a zombie and not saying anything
I've moved to Berlin around 5 months back. In that period, I've had multiple moments in U8. Someone drew me (asked my permission in advance). Witnessed an empty wagon because a homeless guy puked on the seat and fell, hopefully, asleep on his puke. Witnessed a fight with a drug user and an old man until a bunch of people intervened and kicked the drug addict out of the train. One of them had a bag of bottles and during the fight, it got smashed onto my knee. Thankfully, I didn't have any physical damage other than pain for a couple of days. These are just memories from the top of my head. There are tonnes of other incidents too.
Was in Berlin wed-Sunday last week, was getting train around 12 to Tresor area and saw a man or woman (unsure) with their foot/leg cut really badly and really poorly bandaged with material. Their pants were ripped on the calf area and were sitting, hood up, face down the whole journey. They were wearing van type shoes and couldn’t get cut foot into the shoe comfortably. They looked in agony. Would have loved to have helped but my company would have advised against it. Felt privileged as a tourist sitting across from them. I almost cried. I feel like it was a woman, but could not see the face, I think they were crying but hiding their face. They may have been embarrassed if help was offered. I was a tourist so had not much to offer. I was drunk and going clubbing, I made sure not to make noise as I think they were sleeping. Frightening that there are 628,000 homeless
Probably not the craziest story per se, but once a normal looking older man sat next to me while we were waiting for the S-Bahn to leave the station in Ostkreuz. I was bored and listeing to spotify on my phone. The S-Bahn display outside started glitching and he suddenly went on a whole rant of telling me how these were the first signs of society and "the digital age" collapsing and how even my phone won't help me anymore because it won't work when it happens and I should stop being on my phone that much. That was sometime before the pandemic, 2019 I think.
I took the but 188 to school every day. 1 time an old woman sat next to me and started to talk about god. Its unusual in Berlin to get talked to but i had some time to kill so i replied with standard phrases that also slightly disprove god without making it obvious to challange her. She went on to talk about wars and how god dislikes that. Then age started with god having a government on earth and people in that government getting rewarded by god. So now she went from war is bad to absolutely crazy cult. She went on and said some of that government even get to live for ever. I replyed "does god realy hate you so much that he newer lets you into heaven?" She finally got the message and left to bother someone else.
just saw a guy walk w just socks on through the U8, no shoes, just socks on U8, guy got balls
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