Homeless woman living in closet for close to year without discovery.

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/expats/expats_news/article1228255.ece



A HOMELESS woman who sneaked into a man?s house and lived undetected in his wardrobe for a year was arrested in Japan yesterday.



The woman was only rumbled after the man became suspicious about food mysteriously disappearing from his kitchen.



Police found the 58-year-old woman hiding in the top compartment of the man?s wardrobe and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura said today.





<strong>Puzzled </strong>



The man had installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen.



One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home after he had left, and he called police believing it was a burglar.



However, when they arrived they found the door locked and all the 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 nowhere 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."
 
Ha ha, that stuff has happened at some of the places i've worked. Old unused buildings, spaces, secret labs, etc. They just don't get used and are forgotten. You go in and they are spic and span and have lots of conviences.... Its quite strange.... Of course if you need to use the area you try to quietly inform the people to move out before they get caught....

Anyways good luck

-bix
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-562325/Estate-agents-offer-homes-squat.html



'Estate agents' offer empty homes for squat

By MILES GOSLETT

Last updated at 01:47 27 April 2008



At first glance, they are the sort of glossy particulars you would find in the window of any estate agent's.



But, on closer inspection, most of the properties on offer 'boast' some rather unusual features - such as boarded-up windows, possession orders and no front-door entrance.



The homes are being offered by Squatters Estate Agents, which has set up a 'shop' in a derelict warehouse near the gleaming office buildings of the City of London.



The new service is advertised on anti-capitalist websites and prospective 'tenants' are directed to the premises - squatted, of course - in the Shoreditch area of the capital.



A reporter from this newspaper met James, an 'agent' in his late 20s, wearing jeans, a T- shirt and several days' stubble, who guided us through the details of dozens of ' available properties' on printed sheets produced using a digital camera and a computer.



He explained that the service was free and designed to guide others like him into new digs.



On the agency's 'books' are scores of former pubs, abandoned flats and houses, derelict council properties and empty buildings owned by Government departments.



One squat up for grabs is a former JobCentre in East London, owned by the Department for Work and Pensions and described - in perfect estate agentspeak - as a 'huge brick building of mansion-like proportions with two side wings and a covered rear extension'.



Its proximity to a canal and a Lidl supermarket are highlighted. But in a piece of advice you would be unlikely to find in most agents' literature, it adds: "Access looks relatively easy... round the back."



Another hot property is Bedford House, Wheler Street, near the squatters' office.



Pitched as a "beautiful large building", it boasts a "red brick, stone and terracotta facade" noted as being "architecturally significant".



The blurb adds: "It's a stone's throw from Liverpool Street and close to trendy Shoreditch and Brick Lane. It used to be an art gallery but has been empty for quite a while now."



"According to Land Registry records, the vast Bedford House was bought by a company called Islepark Limited in 2005.



Its owners could not be contacted.



James said: "There is an enormous amount of unused property in London and other parts of the country.



"The Government keeps talking about the need to build millions of new houses to cope with the housing shortage - but we're proving they're wrong.



"They could turn existing empty buildings into new houses instead."



The 'agents' - Britain's first group dedicated to sidestepping the property ladder - are briefed in civil law so they can tell their clients that squatting in England and Wales is, technically, not a crime, so long as the squatters can get into an empty building without damaging it, and are able to secure it.



Quoting from charity the Empty Homes Agency, they claim there are 30,000 vacant dwellings in London alone.



All of the advertised properties carry the warning: "Your home is at risk if you do not keep up your occupancy at all times and replace any existing locks secured on it."



Squatters Estate Agents are trained in civil law and tell their clients that squatting is technically not a crime, so long as the squatters can get into the building without damaging it, and are able to secure it



Richard West, who owns a former pub in East London being advertised by the squatters, said he was unaware that it faces becoming a squat.



He said: "Thank you for the tip. I'll have to secure it.



"Ultimately, though, anyone who wants to squat there can do and there's little I can do about it until we get planning permission.



"Squatters have more rights than you'd think.'
 
Yep squatters do have alot of rights.... It pisses me off though, they come in destroy things and then leave. I've run into one or two and I've spent THOUSANDS getting them to leave. If I weren't such a nice guy, i'd pretty much MOVE ALL THEIR into a truck and move them out.... The easy thing is to just keep the apartment rented and have people check on it daily.



This is one of the reasons why I say, "I hate renters"....



-bix
 
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