Crazy German

Back in the first few weeks of my time in Giessen, I saw something unusual, but didn’t get a chance to post about it until now. Partly because I couldn’t get the picture onto my computer from my phone (my computer doesn’t have Bluetooth, so I had to wait until I could by a microSD card and transfer the picture from phone to microSD card and from SD card to computer), and partly because I forgot about the picture until now. But now I found the picture I’ve been wanting to show you all for a while…

Can you tell what it is?

Look closer.

It’s a guy sitting in the middle of a busy intersection. While I was out for a walk on one of my first few weeks here, I saw a bunch of people just staring at something. I couldn’t tell what they were looking at, but then I saw it too: a man walking out in the middle of this intersection, probably one of the busiest ones in the city. And I mean he walked straight into the middle. And with no regard for traffic either. What he did next was crazy. He actually sat down in the middle of that intersection. I overheard someone saying something about how he was protesting something or other. Unfortunately I hadn’t been carrying my camera that day, but lucky for me, I had already bought a cell phone that was capable of taking pictures. So I tried to snap the guy’s picture…this was as far in as I could zoom. Well, of course it didn’t take long for the Polizei to show up and cart the guy off. I still to this day don’t know what he was protesting or what happened to him. But I thought it was an amusing story that you would all like to share.