“I’m Not Hoarding, I’m Archiving,” Says Man With 10,317 U-Bahn Tickets Found in Wedding Basement
Neighbors on Malplaquetstraße reported a “paper humidity” at 6:12 a.m. Tuesday; police say the collection is not illegal, just “emotionally aggressive.”.
A 44-year-old Wedding resident has spent years collecting used U-Bahn tickets, building a five-digit archive that investigators say may qualify as either folk art, compulsive behavior, or a small-scale forestry crime.