Jul 14, 2018
A Berlin man who has been in a coma for four months has been
identified because someone recognized a photograph of his house
keys. The 74-year was found unconscious in a Wilmersdorf park after
apparently having an accident while jogging in March, carrying only
his keys. A police operation to test all the locks in the area
failed. Publishing a photo of his keys worked. It seems Berliners
prefer to memorize the grooves of their keys rather than look their
neighbours in the eye.
The first of Berlin's many bike sharing company has gone bust.
O-bike has filed for bankruptcy in its home country Singapore. In
some cities, the bikes have been sold to a collection company and
are being taken from the streets. But it’s not clear what will
happen to the 700 bikes left in Berlin. One bicycle activist has
created a website called Librebike.info calling for people to
liberate the left-behind bicycles by hacking the locks.
The S-Bahn wants to improve punctuality by introducing express
trains that skip a couple of stops on the Ring. Stations to be
skipped are Halensee and Hohenzollerndamm in the south-west. A
trial could start later this month. And a ticket checker has to pay
€900 to a passenger in compensation for ripping up his partially
invalid ticket.
This episode of Radio Spaetkauf was brought to you by Radio Eins,
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