Woman found living in rooftop grocery store sign with computer & coffee maker – but cops don’t know how she got up there
A HOMELESS woman made her own tiny home in an unusual place but what is even stranger is how she got there.
The 34-year-old who has not been named was found living on the roof of a grocery store in Michigan.
APA 34-year-old homeless woman was found living in the sign of a Family Fare Supermarket in Michigan after a power cord was spotted on the roof by contractors[/caption]
YouTube /Mid MIchigan Now on FOX 66 & NBC 25The woman has since been directed to local services that can help as officers scratch their heads wondering how she got up there and lived there undetected for a year[/caption]
Not only was she on the roof, she had made her home inside the business sign.
Her hidey hole was discovered by contractors hired to work on the Family Fare store in Midland, 130 miles north of Detroit.
One of the workers saw an extension cord on the roof and discovered the woman in her make-shift home with space for a printer, a coffee machine, and a computer, police said.
“She was homeless,” Officer Brennon Warren from the Midland Police Department said on Thursday.
“It’s a story that makes you scratch your head, just somebody living up in a sign.”
Family Fare stores typically have the same triangular-shaped signs on the roof.
The police officer explained that the structure she called home was about five feet wide and eight feet tall.
It was accessed via a door from the roof, he explained.
“There was some flooring that was laid down. A mini desk,” Warren said.
“Her clothing. A Keurig coffee maker. A printer and a computer – things you’d have in your home.”
The woman was discovered on April 23 but had managed to stay living there undetected for about a year, according to Warren.
She used the extension cord that eventually got her caught to get power to her dwelling by plugging it into an outlet on the roof.
The woman told police that she had a job elsewhere while living there but what baffled the officers most was how she accessed the so-called home.
“I honestly don’t know how she was getting up there. She didn’t indicate either,” Warren said.
Police could not find a ladder or any clear method of getting in.
However, Warren said she may have been able to access the roof by climbing onto other businesses or up the back of the Family Fare store.
It’s a story that makes you scratch your head, just somebody living up in a sign.
Police Officer Brennon WarrenMidland Police Department
No charges have been issued against the woman who police said cooperated with them and left the roof space.
Police gave her the information of local services she may find helpful and she apologized as she left.
“Where she went from there, I don’t know,” Warren said.
Meanwhile a spokesperson for Family Fare’s parent company SpartanNash told AP News that employees were “professional” and “compassionate” in responding to the discovery of the woman.
“Ensuring there is ample safe, affordable housing continues to be a widespread issue nationwide that our community needs to partner in solving,” the spokesperson added without further comment.
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