Hitman Wally in Lowdown Mag
Lowdown Magazine, July 07 (Germany): http://afflictedyard.com/lodown.htm
Wally's Myspace page : http://www.myspace.com/hitmanwally
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Lowdown Magazine, July 07 (Germany): http://afflictedyard.com/lodown.htm
Wally's Myspace page : http://www.myspace.com/hitmanwally
More mad people in Germany..surfing in a river : http://afflictedyard.com/munich_surfers.htm
Here's something you don't see every day--a creepy abandoned amusement park left to rot in the center of town--in this case--Berlin.
I first heard about this place from my friend Tobias from SEEN who sent me a link to a weird German rap video that featured a guy named Sido hanging around the abandoned park wearing a silver skull.
So, since I'm in Berlin I decided to go check the place out and see if its as strange as it appears in the Sido video. What I found, however, was a far more interesting story than the remains of the park itself.
Apparently the person who owned the park--a guy named Norbert Witte--was sentenced to seven years in jail for attempting to smuggle 180kg of cocaine with a value of $14 million from Peru to Germany in the masts of the "flying carpet" ride (one of Spreepark's many attractions). And in October 2006 a Peruvian court sentenced Wittes' son, Marcel Witte, to 20 years for drug smuggling.
Needless to say, the park remains closed.
They're consistently well put together and always sexy--HEAD MAGAZINE - Issue 46: http://headmagazine.co.uk
More sightings in weird Texas : http://www.afflictedyard.com/cactusking.htm