Look, we're just as down on crazy Japanese stereotypes as the next guy. We watched
Lost in Translation. We're
with it. We know it's not all cosplay and weird game shows (but seriously, that human Tetris one? Awesome) and people dressing up as vending machines (pictured). That said, this story isn't doing Japan any favors. A homeless woman was recently arrested in Tokyo after living undetected in a man's closet for a year and sneaking food out of his kitchen. It was the missing food that tipped him off, so he installed some security cameras in his home to transmit images to his phone. Some motion was detected, so he called the police, and soon enough they spotted her in the closet -- where she had planted a mattress. Moral of the story? Move to Japan. Better cellphones and bigger closets. You can't lose.
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posted Jun 1st 2008 10:30AM
I also head that Japanese chicks dig white men.
should be rich white man
yea, whites are like the blacks of Japan
nobody loves an asian boy :(
if he is that geeky he may have missed out on his only chance for a date.
When I saw the picture I thought, why are they posting a two year old article? Then I read the text. Now you know what I was thinking.
Reminds me of an ABC Movie of the Week Made-for-TV movie back in the 70's... "BAD RONALD".
So the guy never looked into his closet for a whole year?
He's a hardcore gamer. He doesn't even know he has a shower.
@Kizorblade
LOL!!!!
He's obviously not R.Kelly or Tom Cruise.
What's a shower?!
They don't have bigger closets, just smaller people.
actually, the people are normal-sized. the closets just look bigger because the actual bedrooms are so freaking small
gay joke anyone?
No thank you, but you have one for me.
it's like the Japanese R-Kelly.
Talk about using space effectively
Reminds me of a group of people who decided to live in Providence Place Mall in a homebrew apartment
Replace "homeless woman" with rat, and that could've been about me, security cameras, missing food, living in closet etc. I wonder if she ate the headphones that came with his ipod like rattie did.
Ssssoooooooo... you're a rat that lives in someone's closet, avoiding the security cameras and stealing food? And you ate someone's headphones?
Ha ha, no I'm obviously not the rat. He's not too good at avoiding the cameras either. I've got some great shots of him dragging my underwear across the room that I'm tempted to upload to you tube.
Now that's a video I would like to see!
i can relate , only i have a fat mouse. all it would take is to block the hole hes coming through to get in to the house , but its like 3 metres away from where i sit . i plan on doing something about it but just dont have the time.
One year seems kind of long.
she must be a pain to play hide and seek with.
I would love to have a spare chick for my closet.
Jesus. That means she saw everything CEILING CAT would have!
I'm getting tired of renting. . . think I'll try this myself.
I looked at the closet! I walked up to the closet! I opened the closet! Now oh my God she's eating in my closet! closet! closet! (echo)
Alright then.
brought to you by the country that brings you metal gear solid
"!"
I have this vending machine disguise at work. I use it to hide from Lumberg so he wont ask me to work on the weekend.
I bet that doesn't work very well if Lumberg is thirsty.
He's a coffee man so I'm sure the vending machine disguise would work... You know, in theory. In practice it fools no one.
it is heart warming stories like this , of human accomplishments and resilliance that remind us of what we as a species are capable of.
Living in closets... yep. Real achievement.
REPOST Engadget!!!!!!!
Do you know they are bringing the human tetris game to the US, by guess who, FOX hahahaha
I don't really get the purpose of the picture.
if you're homeless, instead of living in someone's closet dress up as a vending machine and hope that people are stupid enough to throw money in?
''Mom! Dad!, Tom Cruise refuse to get out of the closet!
i wasn't aware that someone could be arrested in FUKUOKA, and have it still registered as Tokyo. Fancy that. i mean, i know Tokyo is big... but its not quite that big yet.
lazy reporting engadget.
get better.
He must have had a messy and smelly apartment. Nowhere did the article said the woman ever showered, you'd think her smell would have tipped the guy off someone else lived there. Also, did she sneek to the bathroom to do her business, or did she do that in a corner of the closet?
She showered and used the facilities...
The owner said his only tip off was the food.. even that she was ,"neat and clean"
Hell I woulda gave her a job keeping the place up, since he wasn't doing it....
a year together in the same bedroom under the same roof?
Doesn't that make them common law now?
Are sneak-in houseguests a common occurrence in Asia? Reminds me of part of the plot of "Chungking Express."
Um I'm pretty sure I would kick my wifes ass for not discovering this woman in my closet!
I think it's really odd that a 59 year old man had a 58 year old woman in his closet. Maybe they are married, and both went senile. Or, maybe he kept her as a slave, and made up the story to get rid of her. That'd make more sense.
The way things are going, this will start making a lot of sense in New York city! mark my words...
Maybe this guy is a robot, like Bender, whose apartment is 3'x3' but the closet is 30'x20' but he never goes in there.
I wonder if he had a wiimote to control the closet dweller . . things might have been different