In The Closet

A few years ago I was invited to a fundraiser at a swankienda in RO (River Oaks). The event was to be held outside on the terrace of the swankienda but it rained all day was still raining when the event started.

The event had to be held inside of the swankienda. The owners of the swankienda were some of the nicest most gracious people I have ever met. They told us we could walk around the house and to make ourselves at home. (I'm sure there was control room for the security cameras). Anywho.

This house was so big it had a basketball court off of the kitchen. Off of the main foyer was a movie theater. Upstairs had huge, HUGE I tell ya, bedrooms, bathrooms and closets.

I was trying to figure out a way to hide in one of the closets and live there. I figured I could live in the house for awhile and they would never find me. Should they find me, I would start speaking in the language of my people and tell them I was part of the cleaning crew and that I was new and that is why they didn't recognize me. I had it all planned out.

So the other day, I read this story on Yahoo! I guess this lady had heard my idea either that or great minds think alike.

Japanese woman caught living in man's closet
By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer Fri May 30, 3:21 PM ET

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."