Story here. Let this be a lesson to you: Clean out that closet! You never know what you’ll find in there.
A different report I read today said police speculated she may not have lived in the man’s closet for the entire year straight, but rather began living there a year ago and had maybe been living in other people’s closets, too, hopping from house to house. The mind really boggles.
That’s some extreme phrogging.
And I thought I had messy closets.
If it was a foreign man instead of a Japanese woman, he’d own the house now. Gaijin Smash!
…Please tell me she snuck out to get food and use, um, the facilities…
That’s how she was found out: the man noticed that food was disappearing from his fridge. He couldn’t figure out why this would be happening so he installed security cameras and caught her in the act.
I just checked my closet and there were no women in it at all, Japanese or otherwise.
DAMN.
I’m impressed that she pulled it off that long!
The Japanese author Taro Rihai, using the pen name Edogawa Rampo (Japanese transliteration of “Edgar Allan Poe” – get it?) wrote a story in 1925 called “The Human Chair” about a guy who hid in a chair in a woman’s apartment for a long time. Maybe this woman was just a fan.
That’s nothing. I had some man living under my kitchen sink for 17 months.
I think he’s been in my parents’ house, too - was yours an older, bald man with an earring?
A very clean man…
… and here I thought just coming out once was admirable.
R Kelly must be furiously writing a sequel.
I feel very sorry for that woman, I know she was traspassing but if it would had been my home I couldn´t kick her out in the street.
Which may be reason Nº935 why I´m a monumental sucker…
I remember lifting the lid of our toilet tank when I was a kid and seeing a little tiny guy in a rowboat living there.
Here’s the Yahoo news article on this.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080530/tod-japan-crime-offbeat-c359f57.html
I love the fact that the article is accompanied by a photo with the caption:
I like the fact that they felt compelled to include a photo of a closet, as if we wouldn’t get the idea. And it’s a file photo of a closet – not the actual closet the woman was hiding in. I’m glad. The file photo looks a little bare, and she would’ve had a hard time hiding in it. What she would neeed would be a deep closet, like my wife’s, which the cats spend a lot of time hiding in.
Wait…he has been in other people’s houses too? I feel so used!
That’s the stupidest thing ever, a file photo of a closet? And, really, who puts their jeans on hangers?
Torquemada?