We are going to get a lot of use out of this story. A 21 year old punk was found leeching off a family for over a week in Pennsylvania. Seems a women noticed some of the Christmas presents were missing, and after seeing a footprint up on the wall, put two & two together and realized someone was living in their attic.

Woman finds man living in her attic
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) – December 28, 2008 — An intruder slept undetected for days in a family’s attic, stealing food and clothing when they were away and keeping warm by wrapping himself with blankets and insulation, police said.

Stanley Carter, 21, of Trumann, Ark., surrendered Friday after he heard a police dog inside the home in Plains Township.

“When he came down from the attic, he was wearing my daughter’s pants and my sweat shirt and sneakers,” the homeowner, Stacy Ferrance, said. “From what I gather, he was helping himself to my home, eating my food and stealing my clothes.”

Police said Carter had been staying with Ferrance’s duplex neighbors, who were friends of his. But when they told him to leave, he apparently accessed the adjoining home’s shared attic through a trap door in a bedroom ceiling. The neighbors filed a missing person report on Dec. 19.

Ferrance said she sometimes heard noises but dismissed them, thinking they were caused by her three children. When household items started disappearing, she said, the family suspected someone had duplicate keys to the house.

Wow, that really takes a lot of balls to live like a parasite off someone, like a tick on a dog. How low can humanity sink? There was a story recently about a homeless women living in a man’s closet in Japan.

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Protecting your privacy,

Christopher Winkler
Spy & Surveillance Equipment Expert
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