German police seek help over mystery "forest boy"

German police seek help over mystery "forest boy"

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MX7

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7,902 posts

175 months

Friday 16th September 2011
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German police seek help over mystery 'forest boy'

BBC said:
Berlin police have appealed for information to help them establish the identity of a teenager who appeared in the city saying that he had been living in the woods for five years.

The teenager is about 17, and speaks English and a little German.

He told the police that he and his father went to live in the woods after his mother died.

He said he left the woods in August when his father died, and walked for two weeks before reaching Berlin.

He said he couldn't remember where his family came from, but that his name was Ray.
How can you walk for 2 weeks in Germany and find nothing until you find the oasis that is Berlin?

Rollin

6,112 posts

246 months

Friday 16th September 2011
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Ah good...mushroom season.

davepoth

29,395 posts

200 months

Friday 16th September 2011
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MX7 said:
How can you walk for 2 weeks in Germany and find nothing until you find the oasis that is Berlin?
Germany's quite sparsely populated. Even so, you'd need to work at it quite hard to avoid finding people for two weeks.

crmcatee

5,699 posts

228 months

Saturday 17th September 2011
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It's maybe only 1/2 mile of woods but his navigation is crap.

MX7

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7,902 posts

175 months

Saturday 17th September 2011
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Rollin said:
Ah good...mushroom season.
roflroflrofl


Germany isn't that sparsely populated is it? 25 miles a day? 14 days? You'd be in Hungary wouldn't you?!

odyssey2200

18,650 posts

210 months

Saturday 17th September 2011
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MX7 said:
roflroflrofl


Germany isn't that sparsely populated is it? 25 miles a day? 14 days? You'd be in Hungary wouldn't you?!
Hungary?

I'd be bloody starvin'

hehe

croyde

22,995 posts

231 months

Saturday 17th September 2011
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odyssey2200 said:
MX7 said:
roflroflrofl


Germany isn't that sparsely populated is it? 25 miles a day? 14 days? You'd be in Hungary wouldn't you?!
Hungary?

I'd be bloody starvin'

hehe
roflrofl

The Nur

9,168 posts

186 months

Saturday 17th September 2011
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hehe

I had a good chuckle at that. Cheers

Bodo

12,379 posts

267 months

Wednesday 13th June 2012
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/police-want-help-...

I guess he want to finish what the piano man started biggrin

Bodo

12,379 posts

267 months

Wednesday 13th June 2012
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ref to the piano man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Grassl

Andreas Grassl (born 25 October 1984) is a German man found in England in April 2005, who remained unidentified for a long time due to his refusal to speak, communicating instead through drawing and playing the piano. During the more than four months that passed until he revealed his identity, the mysterious story spawned media attention and speculation across the world, dubbing him the Piano Man.