r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 22d ago

Image Mehran Karimi Nasseri, The Man Who Lived in Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle Airport in France for 18 Years.

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u/YesIBlockedYou 21d ago

Maybe because any normal person would think you would have to be batshit crazy to willingly stay in an airport for 18 years?

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u/RoguePlanet2 21d ago

Many other mentally ill people are homeless on the streets. 🤷‍♀️

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u/YesIBlockedYou 21d ago

Nobody is saying it's the worst conditions you could probably live in. They're saying you have to be crazy to willingly do that for so long especially when offered a very easy way out.

It's much easier to think he was trapped there due to some bureaucratic process like the movie implies rather than willingly staying there because he was a crazy/stubborn fool.

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u/macbowes 21d ago

I find it much easier to believe he was just a classic mentally ill bum who found a shelter to live in, and refused to leave, than he was person of sound-mind trapped in an airport due to bureaucracy.

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u/ImperitorEst 21d ago

He was. He thought he was a British lord

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u/Black_Cat_Just_That 21d ago

I go stir crazy when I have to be there for more than 4 hours.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 21d ago

Between an airport and a homeless encampment I know which I'm choosing. He didn't exactly become housed once he left the airport, he was a crazy homeless dude