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.
Even better is how he caught her:
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.
Hat tip goes to Instapundit.
There is a recent Korean movie (Kim Ki-Duk?) whose ending is not unrelated… Can’t say more because of spoilers…
How is this even possible?
So if she lived there a year and was caught when food mysteriously began disappearing; what was she living on for most of the year? Or maybe till recently she left little notes explaining where the food was going so its disappearance wasn’t mysterious.
I thought Japanese people don’t steal?
@Jack: the korean movie by kim ki-duk you are talking about is “bin jip”
Not very on-topic, but something I wanted to get in before you finished the Japan series.
I just learned that in Japanese okonomi refers to
“what you want”. I thought that was interesting, since it sounds like “economics”, which studies the
results of preferences!
SUPPLIES!!!
If you are starving and have no money, is it really stealing to take some food to keep oneself alive. Here the survival imperative takes over. Is it still wrong? Yes. Should it be punished? Yes. But in a jail cell in an institution that provides food.
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