USUKI, Oita — A man found living in the attic of a public toilet in a park here had been there for the last three years before he was arrested last week, police have learned.
Police reportedly found at least 300 2-liter and 500-mililiter bottles filled with what appears to be the man’s urine, along with an electric heater, gas stove, clothing and other items in the about 92-square-meter space. The attic was neat and tidy, according to a city employee who accompanied police to the scene.
Yamanouchi is believed to have accessed the space by using the walls of toilet stalls to climb through an approximately 50-centimeter-square maintenance opening in the ceiling.
Usuki municipal authorities have searched the spaces above all public toilets in the city’s parks, but have found no evidence of any other interlopers.
ht/ the big owe
no shit?
Bottles filled with urine? The dude lived above a toilet! He could have just stuck his turtle in a hole and peed.
…And the view isn’t worth a shit.
What humans will settle for to survive.
He could have just gotten a robe and been accepted everywhere as a Zen monk on a walkabout. Problem solved.
If Japanese latrines are anything like Vietnamese latrines, I don’t see how he survived the smell.
Well, he did find a place where he wasn’t getting pissed on any more.
What? He saved his peep, but not his poop. OK. He was unemployed, but managed to find food and clothing (plus empty bottles).
Something is missing from this story.
IMO, if he did live there for 3 years without incident, then let the guy stay. Who cares?
My schoolmate’s father lived in the sewer system in Netherlands during nazi occupation. I guess one can live where one has to in order to survive.
The bottles of urine seems unnecessary though.
92-square-meter space
That’s an effing mansion in Japan. No wonder he stayed for 3 years.
when a previous inhabitant moved out.
We all know how hard it is to get into a rent controlled place.
OK, weird things go on in Japan. Pizza for a family of four costs upwards of $50 and people live in little rooms that enable them to be at their computers 24/7. They have surgery to lengthen their shins and are gorging on Cheesecake Factory.
So is it really a surprise that someone is not only living above a toilet room but also chooses to keep all his urine instead of flushing it?
Sometimes I wonder that Japan rivals only Singapore in their collective News of the Weird.
He was living in the attic so technically speaking, he was in the penthouse suite.
Urine trouble now, buddy.
Place is a real dump
Most homeless shit where we all live. This guy lives where we all shit.
You live above a public toilet, and you save your piss in bottles?… WTF dude san?
crazy enough to be drinking that urine.
Old Oaks – – perfect comment.
Me Japanese,
me play joke,
me go pee-pee in your coke.
So what you’re saying Claude, is that he was in the penthouse of the outhouse?
That’s 55 tatami mats, that’s fooking HUGE!
You wouldn’t believe the shit that guy’s seen!