Oddly Enough..
Would you *not* notice a homeless woman sleeping in your closet for almost a year?
Would you? Could you?
Unless you have a big mansion and a walk-in closet the size of an apartment – i am pretty sure you can sense a stranger living in your closet and using your toiletries. This really odd thing happened in Japan where a man didn’t realize that a homeless woman has been living in his closet for almost a year until food started missing.
He must have felt the pinch because food prices are rising.
Japanese woman caught living in man’s closet
(05-30) 17:34 PDT TOKYO, Japan (AP) –
A homeless woman who sneaked into a man’s house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.
Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man’s closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday.
The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen over the past several months.
One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home Thursday after he had left, and he called police believing it was a burglar. However, when they arrived they found the door locked and all windows closed.
“We searched the house … checking everywhere someone could possibly hide,” Itakura said. “When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side.”
The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man’s house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.
She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman “neat and clean.”
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