Posted on 05/30/2008 6:43:42 AM PDT by restornu
Associated Press Writer
TOKYO -- 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."
Yeah, well at least that’s the story he told his wife.
They have homeless women in Japan? I thought that Japan was the ultimate welfare state.
I would have used a different story.
I suspect this is just what he told the authorities in order to avoid being arrested for false imprisonment.
I don’t believe for a minute that she could live there undetected for a year.
Sounds like the perfect tenant.
She owes him a lot of back rent and board!.............
So, she’s come out of the crozet?
I think she should be allowed to stay at his house. Maybe she can do some jobs that his family won’t do. All she is looking for is to work and he has no right to turn her away. Sound familiar?
I wonder if I could ask her for Tom Cruise’s autograph.
LOL.
Even their socialized medicine is less socialized than ours-- the government is the insurer of last resort and has to compete with plans offered by various company groups.
Homelessness is not so different than the United States, mostly related to substance abuse, some to an inability to fit into a highly conformist society.
Most homeless prefer the cities, of course, because there are miles of subway corridors offering protection from the elements. You get the occasional aggressive jerk, but most of them are passive and well-behaved. They roll up their bedrolls during the day and put them out of the way of traffic. Some can be seen reading discarded newspapers. Others get casual jobs as day laborers. Occasionally, there are even newspaper stories about one which invests well and leaves a small fortune. Most are neat and clean, especially compared with their American counterparts. Were it not for their bedrolls in the subways, it would be hard to distinguish many from your average construction worker or day laborer.
Considering it’s Tokyo, she probably thought the closet WAS an apartment.
}:-)4
Sounds like paradise.
Reminds me of Larry the Cable GUy’s joke:
“Ah was livin’ with a woman for six months......
then she found out ah was there.......”
Least she could’ve done was iron the clothes....oh wait...that’s a ‘sexist’ comment. pardon me... Must not refer to ‘victims’ with hate speech in this un-Brave New World Disorder.
No doubt about it. Has to be Obama’s uncle’s missing wife!
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