Have You Ever Heard of the Kellys?
| TThe Kelly fan phenomena has mystified the rest of the harbor, where rowboats ply up and down the normally quiet half kilometer long channel. |
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| About 200 meters down the river, Michael Herrmann lives in a 20-meter-long housboat tied to a barge. He grimaces at mention of the Kellys fans. "They're like rats," Herrmann says, adding that even no-tresspassing signs don't keep the girls off the boats. "If you let one in, they'll all come in." On the other side of the harbor, Harry has much the same problem. The Kelly fans break through his fence and scrawl graffitti on his small boat, which is named "Paddy" - the name of one of the Kellys. |
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| "They ruined my boat, and now I try to hide it," said Harry, a 44-year-old computer scientist. "I don't understand them. Anytime a girl is missing in Cologne, the police come here first to look for them." Further up the harbour, Shohimi, an ethnic Albanian living in a boat for political refugees, doesn't know what or who the Kellys are. But he's heard the name. "The girls come here and ask where Kelly is, and I say over there," he says, waving vaguely with his hand. "But it doesn't interest me."
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