Zombie in the Attic

Man spent days unnoticed hiding in Pennsylvania family's attic

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Police in Pennsylvania say a family there didn't realize they'd had an unexpected Christmas guest until a man who had been in their attic for days emerged wearing their clothes.

Stanley Carter surrendered Friday after police took a dog to search the home in Plains Township, a suburb of Wilkes-Barre about 160 kilometres north of Philadelphia.

He was charged with several counts of burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal trespass.

Police say the 21-year-old Carter had been staying with his friends, who are the family's neighbours in a duplex.

He apparently accessed the shared attic through a trap door in a bedroom ceiling.

Carter went missing on Dec. 19 and his friends filed a missing person report a few days before Christmas.

Meanwhile, homeowner Stacy Ferrance said she had heard noises but thought they were caused by her three children. She notified police on Christmas Day when cash, a laptop computer and an iPod disappeared, then called police again the next day when she found footprints in her bedroom closet, where the attic trap door is located.

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

Carter kept a list of everything he took, said Plains Township police Officer Michael Smith.

"When we were going through the inventory of what he did take, we found a note labelled 'Stanley's Christmas List' of all the items he had removed from the residence and donated to himself," Smith said.

Carter was in jail Sunday at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility with a preliminary hearing set for Jan. 5. He did not yet have a lawyer to speak for him.
© The Canadian Press, 2008
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Now that is a Zombie for ya!

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SleepWalking Zombies

British budget hotel chain Travelodge reported a seven-fold increase in sleepwalking from the previous year and noted that 95% of the somnambulists had been naked men. When the company released the results of its annual sleepwalker audit in October, it reissued guidelines on how hotel staff should handle wandering snoozers, including keeping a supply of towels behind the reception desk to protect their dignity.

Obviously a hotel with a lot of Zombies staying in it. Naturally they would sleep in the nude.

The Zombie Vote

Change Oregonians Believe In:
The voters of Sodaville (pop. 290) elected Thomas Brady Harrington, 33,
mayor in November, notwithstanding his criminal rap sheet showing
robbery, eluding a police officer, felon in possession of a gun and
other crimes (with his electoral success perhaps due to voters'
confusing him with his father, a respected town elder). [Albany (Ore.)
Democrat-Herald, 11-19-08]

And the
voters of Silverton (pop. 7,400) elected as mayor Stu Rasmussen, 60, an
openly transgendered, longtime resident who previously served as mayor
while a man but who now sports breasts and dresses exclusively as a
woman (especially miniskirts and cleavage-enhancing tops). Actually,
Rasmussen still describes himself as a man and lives with his longtime
girlfriend, but explained his switch as just his particular "mid-life
crisis." [Los Angeles Times, 11-20-08]

2 Towns full of Zombies perhaps? That would explain the voting patterns

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The Zombie Juror

A woman being interviewed for
jury duty on a murder case in Bronx (N.Y.) Supreme Court in October
asked to be excused for the reason that she was once murdered, herself,
by her husband (but had somehow been revived by a doctor). (She was
dismissed from the jury, but on other grounds.) [New York Post, 10-8-08]

A woman who was once murdered? Still around?  A Zombie for sure!

Plaxico {Zombie} Burress

NEW YORK -- New York Giants star receiver Plaxico Burress
was charged with two felony counts of criminal possession of a weapon
in the second degree Monday and released on a $100,000 bond.

Burress,
who accidentally shot himself Friday night in the right thigh at a
Manhattan nightclub, did not enter a plea on the class C felony
charges, though his attorney said Burress planned to plead not guilty.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Felicia Mennin ordered Burress to return March 31


Ah yes, the professional athlete Zombie is out there. I mean if that is not a Zombie move, what is?