Japanese police just arrested a woman for living secretly in a stranger's closet for over a year — sleeping on a small mattress she brought with her. Considering that this woman was living in a closet for a year, I'm not so sure prisontime will be too bad of a punishment.
The homeowner knew something was up once he noticed food was missing from his refrigerator. This guy must love food a whole lot more than he liked clothes, since he noticed his food was gone, but failed to notice he had a roommate!
Well once the missing food planted a seed of suspicion, he installed a nanny cam-type surveillance system. And guess who he found! Fifty-eight-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa, a formerly homeless woman, sleeping in his storage space and walking around his place while he wasn't there. Can you imagine the eerie feeling of realizing food is missing, only to find out someone has been living in your home!
How is it even possible to not realize a person is crashing at your place for that long? Are you going to go home and check all your closets?
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I think it could be possible if you were not home much. There are at least two closets in my house that I almost never open. But they are also very narrow, so unless Vicki from Small Wonder is living a new life as a squatter, I doubt I have any unwelcome guests.
1i swear this is the premise for a horror movie or a porn, i cant remember which.
2I love this story. This could SO happen.
3How big was this house that he didn't notice her? Did she ever come out to use the bathroom when he was home all day?
4I wonder if she ran into Tom Cruise or Ryan Seacrest? I heard they've been in there for years too.
5Oh Rac leave Tom and Ryan alone, lol.
I say the FBI should hire this chick to teach a class in stealth.
6LMAO raciccarone!!!!!!
7omg. this is CRAZY!
8I actually wouldn't mind a small Japanese lady sleeping in my closet. As long as it wasn't my bedroom closet.
9The article said she was "neat and clean." More than I can say for some of my previous roommates.
10That's funny raciccarone
I've heard that about Ryan Seacrest too many times.
11im just really thankful that the guy who owns the house i'm currently squatting in has a wireless router or i wouldn't be able to sit here in this closet and comment all day on citizen!!
12Ah yesteryear! I'm thankful, too.
13I've been checking my closets every couple of hours to make sure no one is living there.
14who on earth doesn't notice there is another person living in their house??
15Julia's right, how could you miss something like that FOR A YEAR? I've tried looking for longer stories but can't find one with any further information- but was the storage area separate from the main part of the house? At some point, you should just feel the presence of another person. Did she breathe? Ever cough or clear her throat? Change position in the closet? It's crazy.
16I have one closet I have opened in months.
17Haven't opened, I mean.
18I once found a jar of peanut butter behind my refrigerator after 18 months. The flavor kept after all that time, but I still got real sick after the third sandwich.
19The peanut butter probably was lost, not hiding from you.
20And even if you don't open the closet, it's hard to believe that for a full year she didn't make the slightest rustling sound to tip him off that he wasn't alone. It's amazing to think not one accidental body function sound escaped her while he was home in that whole time.
She was a ninja squatter. That's a big problem in Japan I hear.
21I remember this article from either cnn or bbc and it seems like it wasn't the only house she squatted in. So with the regular hours of the current occupant, I think she just timed herself well and switched in between places where she could squat.
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23Thank you Bisque. That makes it slightly less bizarre.
24I love these weird news stories.
25I had watched a documentry on Japan,they were saying that the average man works 18-20 hours a day.There livivng quarters are very small, some of them don't even have kitchens in them.Maybe thats why she was able to crash there for so long and not be noticed.Crazy Lady
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