We think of the homeless as living on the streets — not retail rooftops. I’m watching police footage out of Michigan. Here’s the YouTube video synopsis uploaded by MLive this week: “Body camera video shows police confronting .
.. She told police she’d been living in the sign for about a year.
She’d fashioned a living space there, complete with a little desk, houseplant, computer printer, Keurig coffee maker, and a cubbyhole full of food ...
” The 34-year-old woman was not identified beyond her nickname: Roof Ninja. The officers were both pleasant and bewildered. “Where are they going to put my stuff?” Roof Ninja asked the officers.
They should put her stuff in the Resourcefulness Hall of Fame. in big cities around the world. It’s heartbreaking to see a fellow human blotto on a park bench or nestled in a sleeping bag outside an ATM vestibule.
Tents belong in campgrounds, not under highway underpasses. While every life story comes with a list of circumstances that don’t fit neatly into nature or nurture, I think we can agree on this: nobody should be sleeping in the mud under a bridge. That said, Roof Ninja is intriguing.
While technically trespassing on private property, she was not hurting anyone. She was just searching, as she told officers, for an “old safe spot.” It was so old and safe that nobody knew she was up there for a year.
According to the Associated Press, the gig was up for Roof Ninja after contractors followed an extension cord leading to.