Normally I wouldn’t subject you to blog stats again so soon, but some of these search terms are too funny/strange not to share:
1. berlin deutschland
2. american expats germany
3. ausländeramt hamburg foto
4. berlin rapes american soldiers
5. verliebt in berlin tv serie in version english
6. charlie geyer
7. germany babies skeletons found in flower pots
8. american expat dresden
9. tjhsst students killed
Number four is quite scary if true (although not quite as scary as “grandpa+grandma sex” and “baby puffs deutschland”-Rainer confirms that this was likely a person looking for baby porn *shiver*). Maybe they mean the musical group that sang “Take My Breath Away”. Still doesn’t diminish the scariness.
Six is funny because it’s the name of our dog, but I realized when I looked at the stats that there is a famous Bayesian statistician of the same name, so I inadvertently named my dog after an MCMC expert. I’ve never met him, but I ran into a group of his students at the JSM in Atlanta and they all wanted to know if we were related. Actually, if he’s from Minnesota (where he is a professor), then we might be. I recently found some Geyer ancestors who moved to Minneapolis in the early 1900’s. If he’s from Iowa, then we almost certainly are related.
Seven refers to a murder case from about 2 years ago where a woman living in Frankfurt/Oder was found to have given birth to, then killed her babies. She disposed of their bodies by hiding them in old flower pots and an aquarium that she kept in her garage. Her neighbors never noticed anything out of the ordinary. I haven’t heard anything new on the story. I suppose she should have gone to trial by now. Ah, I spoke too soon, a quick Google search brings up this article from Der Tagesspiegel, that says that back in June 2006, she received a sentence of 15 years in prison for 8 counts of murder. Apparently, after they had three kids, her husband didn’t want anymore and she was afraid that he would leave her. Her husband supposedly never noticed the additional pregnancies. Right. And hadn’t they heard of birth control?
