Japanese Woman Caught Living In Closet

[Kor37 9]

Japan woman caught living in closet

By MARI YAMAGUCHI,AP

Posted: 2008-05-30 07:06:53

TOKYO (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."

I simply cannot believe that someone could live in the same house as you do and go undetected for over a year!

[trekz 7]

She must be VERY quiet. You'd think the extra showers might have been noticed .. wet tub, wet towel ... She must not have snored much either! Poor woman.

[Bethlehem 7]

I believe I would not notice, I have a very set pattern and unless something or someone interups it I notice nothing else.

[Theunicornhunter 2]

I guess it depends on how big the house is and how much time you spend there.

[TJ Phaserman 2]

if you didn't notice the towels missing, im sure you would of smelled the soap after a while in the bathroom

[He Who Shall Not Be Named 2]

She could move here. I have plenty of closet space.

[TJ Phaserman 2]

that desperate aren't you? :blink:

[He Who Shall Not Be Named 2]

I would think she would realise her time was up when her "landlord" started inatalling that security equipment. The system couldn't have been set up all in one day, she would have seen it coming.