He registered the same table for years, and the scenes surprised everyone

In 2011, Tomiyasu Hayahisa spotted a fox perched on a ping pong table in front of his living place in eastern Germany. Hoping to see the animal again, he began spending more time in front of the window - always with a camera nearby. What he could not imagine was that his attention, over time, would turn to the most frequent patrons of the place: the members of his own kind.

"At the time, I lived in a boarding school in Leipzig and from the window you could photograph the ping pong table where people from different places passed, " he told This is Colossal. More than a fox perch, he said, this table served as a meeting place for families and groups of young Bohemians, a refuge for people who left home without an umbrella, and even a place for the weary to relax. Here are the other unimaginable uses attributed to the place: