Life in the Closet
Here’s a strange story starting to filter through the news. A Japanese man was mystified as to why food kept disappearing from his apartment. It turns out, a woman had been secretly living in his closet for perhaps as long as several months.
The 57-year-old unemployed man of Fukuoka in southern Japan called police Wednesday when the camera sent pictures to his mobile phone of an intruder in his home while he was out on Wednesday, the Asahi newspaper said on its Website.
Officers rushed to the house and found a 58-year-old unemployed woman hiding in an unused closet, where she had secreted a mattress and plastic drink bottles, the Asahi said
I have to confess, reading this, I wonder how large the closet–not to mention the apartment–actually was. Do any of you have closets large enough to hide a woman? On second thought, never mind.
Marie, I heard she was living in the small storage space that is above the closet in Japanese houses. That would explain how she could live there so long undetected, because I think most people use such spaces for long-term storage of things, which are often forgotten about. . . Kind of like a purgatory for trash.
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 pmI could easily store a woman in our futon cupboard, but I’m not allowed to.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:53 pmThat’s a pretty small space above Japanese closets! They said she had a futon up there, but that would have been pretty darn cramped. For those that haven’t been in a Japanese house, it’s the shelf at the very top of this picture:
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:04 pmhttp://images.dododay.jp/works/step_l/4047.jpg
In New York City that space’d still cost you $800 in rent in a shared apartment… .
June 4th, 2008 at 6:06 am