Man spends days unnoticed in Pa. family's attic

[Liberal_in_LA]

creepy!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iyyzrMf09szg5HbiaAXx8l-Qrd_QD95C0BN80

Man spends days unnoticed in Pa. family's attic


WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A family didn't realize it had an unexpected Christmas guest until a man who had been in their attic for days emerged wearing their clothes, police said.

Stanley Carter surrendered Friday after police took a dog to search the home in Plains Township, a suburb of Wilkes-Barre about 100 miles north of Philadelphia. He was charged with several counts of burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal trespass.

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

Police said the 21-year-old Carter had been staying with friends who are Ferrance's neighbors in a duplex. He apparently accessed the shared attic through a trap door in a bedroom ceiling.

Carter disappeared Dec. 19, and the friends filed a missing person report a few days before Christmas.

:scared:

[Lasher]

1. The calls are coming from inside your house!

Eeeek!

[Horse with no Name]

24. I LOVED that movie!n/t

[Lasher]

26. Scary!

:scared:

[Heidi]

2. The part that killed me was, "Stanley's Christmas List."

:rofl:

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. me too. LOL.

[Solly Mack]

4. Bad Stanley

(I'm old)

[blogslut]

7. Bad Ronald

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Ronald

:hi:

[underpants]

10. didn't Gary Busey do a movie similar to that?

:shrug:

[Solly Mack]

11. Yes, that's the movie

but the guy's name is Stanley, so...

[blogslut]

13. Hider in the House

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097503/

Busey played the role of Tom Sykes. 1989

Bad Ronald - 1974. I guess that makes me really old. :)

EDIT: Oops. Meant to reply to underpants.

[blogslut]

14. True

I had a kind of a thing for Scott Jacoby, back in the day. Just the same, that teevee flick creeped me right out. Not as weird as http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073772/">"Sweet Hostage" though. They had some seriously messed up made-for-tv stuff when I was a teen.

[Solly Mack]

15. It creeped me out as well. That's why it came to mind so readily...

We had an opossum that lived in our attic for a bit and we named him "Bad Ronald"

[blogslut]

16. Was he cute like Scott?

Sigh...:loveya:

[Solly Mack]

17. He was cute (I think) but not quite that cute

lol

[Liberal_in_LA]

31. I had a squirrel up there. Drove me crazy rolling nuts around or tap dancing, whatever it was doing.

[Horse with no Name]

25. I had Tiger Beat posters on my wall of Scott Jacoby!

:swoon:

[blogslut]

28. And Robby Benson!

Heehee. My girlfriend used to call him Borey Benson.

I was a closet Tiger Beat fan. I hid them under my mattress as if they were bags of heroin.

[AngryAmish]

20. You beat me to it.

Dammit.

[blogslut]

21. Sigh

Scott...:loveya:

[blogslut]

30. Ack!

Bad Ronald - on teh YouTubes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zW_-fJYQC0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY1CpjlGO-4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yteYpLNneQw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgEQtcjda5U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKtqZWR_nKw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3mw_ROgXE4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4foSki1KFA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLcUp6tJi2c&feature=channel_page

[Enrique]

5. it's their fault for being careless homeowners

I check my attic every night for people.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. lol

[SoCalDem]

9. We had friend who had a family of raccoons

who had a rather large "homestead" in their attic.. It was holy HELL to get them out... They had a large tree near an attic vent, and the cover had blown loose in a storm, and those clever critters managed to swing it from side to side and decided it was better to be INSIDE in the winter:)

[AngryAmish]

19. I blame the parents

They should have bought an Apple, too.

Vista sux.

[EnviroBat]

22. I just shoot randomly into the ceiling every now and then.

Always keep em guessing!

[tammywammy]

27. LOL!

:spray:

[SoCalDem]

8. A clever lawyer will get him freed..

The attic was a COMMON attic, accessible by both tenants..

He was a "guest" of the other tenants at one time.

He did not remove the "borrowed" property from the premises..

He will claim to have been "confused" and needing shelter from the cold...and to have only "borrowed" the stuff..

The landlord is the one who will get some grief, if he has code violations:)

[Gwendolyn]

12. Good thing Stanley was only slightly disturbed...

unlike the character from "Black Christmas." Otherwise they'd be pulling plastic wrapped corpses out of that attic instead of things. :scared:

[ima_sinnic]

18. a "shared" attic in a duplex is cheesy and cheap and a guarantee that neither half is safe.

I lived in 3 different duplexes in Gainesville, FL, and not one of them had a "shared" attic. The builders had spent the small amounts needed to put up a wall between the attics.

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. I never heard of such a thing as a "shared attic" except in the famous move "Gas light"

[hootinholler]

23. Licky they didn't turn him into Flat Stanley n/t