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This Man Has Lived In His Mercedes Hatchback For 7 Years – And Never Steps Out

This post was updated on March 15th, 2024

Some RVers use their rigs only a few days or weeks a year. Others are more regular campers, spending months (years?) at a time touring this great Earth of ours.

In this video, you’ll meet a man who’s led a highly unconventional life. He’s spent the last seven years – yes, years – living out of his Mercedes car, without ever leaving it!

That’s right, he doesn’t even know if he can walk anymore – he hasn’t tried.

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Only 45-years-old, it seems his parents have sadly given up on him, disavowing his existence and shooing off the documentary cameraman.

Man lives out of his Mercedes hatchback for last seven years.

They say that “…the chains of habit are too light to be felt, until they’re too heavy to be broken.” There’s got to be an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for “longest time spent living out of a car.”

He’s got that title hands down.

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