Fan forgets hotel location in six-hour ordeal
An American visiting Germany to see a World Cup game forget the location of his hotel and the police helped him.
I feel some deja vu on this news... Yes, I wrote about English men who lost their way back to the parking place. (See: “The Way AONORI Sees It: England fans stranded in one way street”)
I think that this American is more bumbling than the English men. He did not remember anything about the hotel except that it was located near a park he did not remember. On the other hand, the English men at least TRIED to write down the name of the street...
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Fan forgets hotel location in six-hour ordeal - Yahoo! News
Fri Jun 23, 7:44 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police rescued an American soccer fan lost in Hanover and unable to find his hotel again after helplessly wandering around the city for more than six hours after a match, federal police said Friday.
The 25-year-old Boston man had checked into his hotel in the afternoon before going to see a match between Poland and Costa Rica but could not remember his hotel's name, its address or anything else about it, police spokesman Holger Jureczko said.
"He came into the police station at 3 a.m. and asked for help," Jureczko said.
"The only thing he could remember was paying 10 euros for a taxi ride to the city center and that he went past a park and a Mercedes dealer. There are a lot of Mercedes dealers in Hanover but we were able to find the one in the vicinity of a park."
Police took the American to the area that matched his vague description in the city of 500,000 and spent an hour driving up and down streets in that quarter until he recognized his hotel just before dawn Wednesday.
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