Maine 'North Pond Hermit ' Christopher Knight held

[Tero]

http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/Nort ... lmart.html

Instead, I've had to work 38 years.

[Svartalf]

You fancy that life style?

[Tero]

It has its points. No hassles with banks checks credit cards. And a small carbon footprint.

Retirement in prison.

[klr]

Some Japanese soldiers held out for even longer than that ...

[Tero]

Well, they knew the wife would be at home, no rush. Them Japanese wives get bossy past 40.

[klr]

Well, they knew the wife would be at home, no rush. Them Japanese wives get bossy past 40.

We need a Japanese version of this:

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22102649

Maine 'North Pond Hermit ' Christopher Knight held

A man who lived as a hermit in the Maine woods for nearly three decades committed more than 1,000 burglaries for food and supplies, police say.

Christopher Knight was arrested last week after setting off a motion sensor in an alleged break-in at a youth camp.

On Tuesday, police said they found the site where the so-called North Pond Hermit was said to have lived for 27 years with virtually no human contact.

His existence has become part of local lore in the small Maine town of Rome.

Police say Mr Knight, 47, treated a nearby camp for disabled children and adults like a "local Walmart", pillaging it for supplies when needed, the Kennebec Journal newspaper reported.

His arrest on 4 April is believed to be his first contact with other people in 27 years, save a greeting he exchanged with a hiker in the 1990s.

Authorities believe him responsible for more than 1,000 burglaries during that period. But under Maine's statute of limitations he can only be prosecuted for those committed within the last six years.

(continued, the modern world and it's issues passed him by - that is a lifestyle)

[JimC]

Mergification done...

[cronus]

Mergification done...

Zarathustra comes down from hills...