Mich: Homeless Woman Living Inside Rooftop Store Sign, with Computer, Coffee Maker

[appalachiablue]

- Homeless woman was living inside Michigan rooftop store sign with computer and coffee maker, Yahoo, AP News, May 9, 2024.
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Contractors curious about an extension cord on the roof of a Michigan grocery store made a startling discovery: A 34-year-old woman was living inside the business sign, with enough space for a computer, printer and coffee maker, police said. “She was homeless,” Officer Brennon Warren of the Midland Police Department said Thursday. “It's a story that makes you scratch your head, just somebody living up in a sign.”

The woman, whose name was not released, told police she had a job elsewhere but had been living inside the Family Fare sign for roughly a year, Warren said. She was found April 23. Midland, best known as the global home of Dow Inc., is 130 miles (209 kilometers) north of Detroit. The Family Fare store is in a retail strip with a triangle-shaped sign at the top of the building.

The sign structure, probably 5 feet (1.5 meter) wide and 8 feet (2.4 meters) high, has a door and is accessible from the roof, Warren said.

“There was some flooring that was laid down. A mini desk,” he said. “Her clothing. A Keurig coffee maker. A printer and a computer — things you'd have in your home.” The woman was able to get electricity through a power cord plugged into an outlet on the roof, Warren said. There was no sign of a ladder. Warren said it's possible the woman made her way to the roof by climbing up elsewhere behind the store or other retail businesses. "I honestly don't know how she was getting up there. She didn't indicate, either," he said.

A spokesperson for SpartanNash, the parent company of Family Fare, said store employees responded “with the utmost compassion and professionalism.”

“Ensuring there is ample safe, affordable housing continues to be a widespread issue nationwide that our community needs to partner in solving,” Adrienne Chance said, declining further comment. Warren said the woman was cooperative and quickly agreed to leave. No charges were pursued. “We provided her with some information about services in the area,” the officer said. “She apologized and continued on her way. Where she went from there, I don't know.”...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/homeless-woman-living-inside-michigan-165735603.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Companies are missing an incremental source of rental income

Plumbing codes not withstanding. And how did she climb to the roof every day with no one seeing her?

[appalachiablue]

3. Maybe she learned how to get in from an employee,

somebody who worked there or was a contractor for the store and knew what to do to get in and up- all I can think of.

I hear you about store rental income. But the Musk Way must also have appeal- the 966 (?) plan at his factory in China that he brags about.

People work there for 9 hours a day, sleep on mats in the factory for 6 hours, on a 6 days a week work schedule. Something like that.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Every time I hear some smug Rethug say

“Minimum wage was not meant to be a living wage…”

I just want to scream.

[appalachiablue]

4. Ditto, so ugly and brutal

[Jerry Flattum]

5. In 150,000 years of human history...

Those living conditions are probably better than what most people endured throughout human history.