Weird News: A little preholiday warning

Thanksgiving dinner put away? Good. Hitting the Black Friday sales? Be sure to be nice to the salespeople. Oh, and as you gear up for the holidays, take a lesson this Wilkes Barre family learned last year. Take a head count on your family. If it is one more than you remember it being, it might be time to call the cops.
From MSNBC:
"A family did not realize they 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."

But, you may ask, how long can a man be in your house without you noticing, and honestly, wouldn't there be any clues? The answer is SEVEN days and, well...

"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.

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 labeled 'Stanley's Christmas List' of all the items he had removed from the residence and donated to himself," Smith said.... "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."

Well, now that we are all sufficiently creeped out, happy holidays.