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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by noonespecial on Sunday March 20, 2016 @10:58PM (#11325929)
At first, the underground workers who stumbled upon this scene in a disused U-Bahn tunnel in Berlin’s Reinickendorf district in mid-January assumed they had encountered an abandoned film set. But checks showed that no film recordings had been applied for in the area.

Because no one would build a film set in a disused subway and then abandon it without filing the proper papers!

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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by askafriend on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:52PM (#11326129)
Truly hilarious that they assume people actually follow laws down to a T like that.

There is much beauty in the world from people not doing so.

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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by maaku on Monday March 21, 2016 @02:10AM (#11326497)
You've never been to Germany it seems.
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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by akie on Monday March 21, 2016 @02:19AM (#11326523)
And you've never been to Berlin I guess?
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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by _ak on Monday March 21, 2016 @04:25AM (#11326788)
And you've never experienced Berlin's bureaucracy I guess?
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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by akie on Monday March 21, 2016 @05:36AM (#11326987)
I did. I live there...
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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by ido on Monday March 21, 2016 @01:23AM (#11326391)
It is Germany after all.
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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by f_allwein on Sunday March 20, 2016 @06:37PM (#11325031)
There's actually an organization that specializes in tours of Berlin's underground architecture and offers some interesting guided tours (although they probably wouldn't include the subway bedrooms): http://berliner-unterwelten.de/home.1.1.html
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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by lettergram on Sunday March 20, 2016 @08:00PM (#11325324)
When I first saw that, I was like... I wonder if that was a porn studio that they setup to avoid laws/taxes.
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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by eginhard on Sunday March 20, 2016 @08:32PM (#11325436)
The front garden tableau (in a publicly accessible area): https://www.facebook.com/BerlinWriters/posts/978227365587788

The headline sounds like there are many of them, but these are the only two.

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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by georgeglue1 on Monday March 21, 2016 @03:35AM (#11326688)
Does anyone have any sense if squatters ever hide elaborate rooms/false walls in public spaces? I've always been fascinated by this...
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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by ForHackernews on Monday March 21, 2016 @07:12AM (#11327294)
http://laughingsquid.com/artists-build-a-secret-apartment-in...
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Re:Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway be... by personlurking on Monday March 21, 2016 @04:17AM (#11326774)
I've seen a short documentary about this - urban explorers who squat in unusual places in Europe (I think it was a Nordic country, but I can't remember the title).
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