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
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Woah, this story is bad ass. Reminds me of this episode of Malcolm in the Middle when there was a homeless guy living in the supermarket where Malcolm and his mother worked. Priceless.
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Posts: 2142 | Location: Egypt | Registered: June 14, 2007
Yeah, I check my closets as well. Hard to believe this guy did not know someone was in his closet. I seen the photos on the net, didnt this guy wear any pants for a year? If he grabbed a pair of pants I would think he would of seen her. Pretty crazy stuff.
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Posts: 336 | Location: Central Florida | Registered: March 09, 2007
This could certainly make a great reality show. Round up a group of homeless people, covertly move them into closets all over Japan, and the last one to be detected wins $1M (or 1,000,000,000,000 Yen).
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Posts: 2341 | Location: the GTA | Registered: November 28, 2007
thats way too tame for japanese tv. have you seen their reality shows? they make our shows look like $h!+
american reality show: insert 30 hookers and one washed up star and watch the cat fights as some old guy trys to bed as many of these wanna be starlets to relive his old touring days
reference brett michaels or flavor flav
sample b: insert one spoiled rich princess and watch her chat on her cell phone, buy prada shoes, wear ski goggles as sunglasses, and drive her benz all over the OC while on the constant hunt for the next piece of coach luggage to add to her collection
reference any other crap show on vh1
japanese reality show: insert one japanese guy and have him ride a unicycle across a 2 by 4 spanning a pit of flames while wearing a sumo diaper drenched in gasoline while balancing an order or egg foo yung in each hand... all for the chance of winning a trophy.
reference unbeatable banzuke or ninja warrior
the hide in the closet show would have to be kicked up a notch. like.... theres a wolverine or a nest of killer bees in the closet with you.
*edited to look up what the name is of the balding guy with the big house and all the strippers currently "looking for love" on vh1
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Originally posted by Gaetano: thats way too tame for japanese tv. have you seen their reality shows? they make our shows look like $h!+
american reality show: insert 30 hookers and one washed up star and watch the cat fights as some old guy trys to bed as many of these wanna be starlets to relive his old touring days
reference brett michaels or flavor flav
sample b: insert one spoiled rich princess and watch her chat on her cell phone, buy prada shoes, where ski goggles as sunglasses, and drive her benz all over the OC while on the constant hunt for the next piece of coach luggage to add to her collection
reference any other crap show on vh1
japanese reality show: insert one japanese guy and have him ride a unicycle across a 2 by 4 spanning a pit of flames while wearing a sumo diaper drenched in gasoline while balancing an order or egg foo yung in each hand... all for the chance of winning a trophy.
reference unbeatable banzuke or ninja warrior
the hide in the closet show would have to be kicked up a notch. like.... theres a wolverine or a nest of killer bees in the closet with you.
*edited to look up what the name is of the balding guy with the big house and all the strippers currently "looking for love" on vh1
NICE!!!!!!!!
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the end was insane. and youre right, thats how they do it over there.
i laughed the entire clip. nice work finding that.
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