More Funny Germans

I try not to blog about stuff that comes through the Reuters Oddly Enough RSS feed because it’s easier to just get it straight from them but the last couple of days have seen some pretty odd stories about Germans come through. Today’s was a german man who was refused a passport because he was dead. Apparently his blind ex-wife had reported him as having died in an explosion but had to get her mother to identify the body due to her lack of sight. I guess the husband hadn’t spent enough time with his mother in law. I should also point out that the article doesn’t actually mention he was refused the passport but one would hope that he was at least initially…. And of course now that I reread it a little more carefully – he might have been russian instead of german. They’re both north of here and substantially colder so you can understand the mistake….