Woman was living inside rooftop grocery store sign with computer and coffee maker for a year

AP ^ | 5/10/24 | Ed White

[DallasBiff]

Contractors curious about an extension cord on the roof of a Michigan grocery store made a startling discovery: A 34-year-old woman was living inside the business sign, with enough space for a computer, printer and coffee maker, police said.

“She was homeless,” Officer Brennon Warren of the Midland Police Department said Thursday. “It’s a story that makes you scratch your head, just somebody living up in a sign.”

The woman, whose name was not released, told police she had a job elsewhere but had been living inside the Family Fare sign for roughly a year, Warren said. She was found April 23

[DallasBiff]

Wonder if this supermarket was open 24 hours? If not she probably had access to free food, but wouldn't the video cameras show her roaming around the store?

[4yearlurker]

This is how haunted locations ghost stories get started.

[ClearCase_guy]

Bidenomics! It’s working!

[rktman]

NOT homeless. Found a space and put it to use.

[DIRTYSECRET]

It was the free wi-fi.

[Dr. Sivana]

How can you NOT admire the woman’s resourcefulness? Usually these stories are in the realm of ADHD 25 year-old men.

[OakOak]

Bidenomics

Joe: my family has done great. Grand kids are Millionaires.

[rktman]

Perks! A lot of “homeless” prefer NOT being put into the “system”.

[chajin]

This reminds me of the 1948 movie An Apartment for Peggy, where a homeless postwar couple wrangles a professor into renting his attic, and then turn it into a makeshift efficiency. It's an interesting movie on a number of levels, but that is a subject for another post.

[OakOak]

Joe’s niece got a job as a GM Executive a week after Joe gave GM like $15 Billion!

You read that right!

[Yo-Yo]

Homeless, but had to make room for her printer?

[Jonty30]

Most grocery stores have night staff stocking shelves, so she probably wasn’t stealing at night.

[bunkerhill7]

A sign of the times.

[PGR88]

If not she probably had access to free food,

depends how the grocery store managed their trash, but the dumpsters could be a cornucopia.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I’d think it would be pretty tough getting through a Michigan winter in that situation.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Her life is better than a movie.

[ducttape45]

Didn’t Greg Maddux, when he first pitched for the Cubs, live in the scoreboard in center field? Granted, I think there is an apartment up there, but still, this story reminded me of that.

[moovova]

Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind

[SamAdams76]

I love stories like this.

There was also a guy who spent years living at an airport. Nobody ever caught on to him because he changed locations daily and everybody is used to seeing people sleeping in airports. He had places where he could take showers and tend to her personal hygiene as well.

I think they made a movie about him.

[SamAdams76]

Do this, don't do that
Can't you read the sign?