UTMC

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:17 pm**

This gentleman couldn't figure out why food was going missing in his high-storey NYC apartment. His girlfriend denied taking it. So he set up a hidden camera to see what was happening, and shortly thereafter, he saw a strange woman creep out of a deep storage crawlspace over the kitchen, let herself down onto the kitchen table and help herself to his pantry. He phoned the police (he was in the apartment), and they told him after investigating that they believed the woman had been secretly living in his apartment for weeks.

#1 - Are you sh#ting me?
A - No, this is every bit as real and messed up as it seems

#2 - What did you do when you saw the footage?
A - I immediately left my apartment and called the police.

#3 - Who is that girl?
A - I have no idea, she didn’t say much when the cops came and took her.

#4 - What was it she actually climbed down from?
A - It is a storage loft/area in the apartment. It has no connection to any outside ventilation or anything of that such. It does go pretty deep back in there, almost all the way to over the stove/kitchen area. She had set up a little nook for herself.

#5 - How did she get in there?
A - I have no idea, the only way she could have gotten in is through the window, as I am on the top floor and there is a fire escape. The police think she was probably coming in to rob me when I was gone and decided to stow away in the crawl space. Supposedly this isn’t the first time the cops had come across something like this.

#6 - How long was she in your apartment?
A - The police officers thought it looked as though she had been there for at least a couple weeks, although could have been longer.

Straight up bat-shit-fucking insane. What if her intentions were more nefarious than stealing OJ and pissing in his sink?

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:24 pm**

Why piss in the sink? Assumably, this guy left for work at some point. If she was careful to leave things as she'd found them, she could have the run of the apartment while he was gone.

I actually feel kinda sorry for the woman in this case. How desperate would you have to be to become a parasite like that?

But yeah, super creepy.

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:41 pm**

Very creepy indeed. I do however admire her self discipline in being able to pull that off for the amount of time the police think she might have been there. With my luck if I tried that I would end up in some health nuts house and starve to death…

Of course I have also just rechecked the garage and the attic, just saying.

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:24 pm**

Busted, nice fake, though
http://observers.france24.com/en/conten ... eper-video

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:38 pm**

It's like phrogging...

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:41 pm**

Bigshankhank wrote:Busted, nice fake, though
http://observers.france24.com/en/conten ... eper-video

That's a relief! Maybe I can sleep now. I'll just set my webcam to shoot anyway for piece of mind. I mean, have you ever seen Shallow Grave?

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:45 pm**

The door to the attic space in my apartment is in my closet...

But if it wasn't for a nefarious reason I might be cool with that minus the whole pissing in the sink bit, ever see Real Genius?

/RM

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:02 am**

rolly wrote:
Bigshankhank wrote:Busted, nice fake, though
http://observers.france24.com/en/conten ... eper-video
That's a relief! Maybe I can sleep now. I'll just set my webcam to shoot anyway for piece of mind. I mean, have you ever seen Shallow Grave?

Screw the camera, shotguns shoot better.

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:25 am**

It's always simultaneously disappointing and rewarding when something is revealed to be 'deliberately-viral'. Disappointing that reality is as mundane as ever, corporate interests underly everything, and motives are fiscal, but also rewarding when one's instinct that 'that couldn't be so', was in fact, dead-on and balls accurate.

My hat is grudgingly off to those who can actually make something viral on purpose. On the other hand, if the reason that this video got viewed & talked about a lot is because youtube announced to a lot of people that it was getting viewed a lot... youtube itself then is the virus...

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:24 am**

I am glad it is fake.

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:22 pm**

roadmissile wrote:The door to the attic space in my apartment is in my closet...

But if it wasn't for a nefarious reason I might be cool with that minus the whole pissing in the sink bit, ever see Real Genius?

/RM

Real Genius is one of my guilty-pleasure favorite movies. I love how they had the whole secret laboratory inside of Lazlo's closet - and it was accessed via a little roller coaster kind of car.

<threadjack> I met Val Kilmer once - he was at a club in Philly at an afterparty for Janes Addiction - the only thing that came into my mind (and wouldn't leave) when I saw him was "You're Batman!" - I had totally forgotten about Real Genius, or any other roll he had actually played. </threadjack>

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:07 pm**

Vespalina wrote: I met Val Kilmer once... ...the only thing that came into my mind (and wouldn't leave) when I saw him was "You're Batman!"

Better than Clooney, not as good as Keaton.

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:42 pm**

Vespalina wrote: <threadjack> I met Val Kilmer once - he was at a club in Philly at an afterparty for Janes Addiction - the only thing that came into my mind (and wouldn't leave) when I saw him was "You're Batman!" - I had totally forgotten about Real Genius, or any other roll he had actually played. </threadjack>

I ran the Wild Oats down in Santa Fe. He came in all the time... jesus that man had a tiny little waist.

Give me the big burly mutherfuckers...

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Woman Secretly living in your apartment?

Woman Secretly living in your apartment?