
If you're going to be a squatter you might as well do it at a mall because at least there's an IKEA and a Panda Express, and the bathrooms are usually sort of clean.
Rhode Island resident Michael Townsend and seven of his friends somehow managed to build a 750-square-foot apartment in the parking garage of the Providence Place mall, and here's the really insane part, they took turns living in it for four years without anyone noticing. The apartment was camouflaged behind a cinder block wall and evidently the mall cops were more concerned about shoplifters than a few missing parking spots, and now they're all really embarrassed.
According to NBC News, the apartment was fully furnished and even included a hutch full of dishes and at one time a Sony PlayStation, until burglars broke in and stole the PlayStation because even burglars knew about the place before the mall cops did.
Townsend said he did it because a lady voice told him to. And that's actually the truth — during the holiday season the mall ran a commercial that suggested it might be awesome to live at the mall. So basically, Townsend got sucker-punched for something the mall actually told him to do in the first place.
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