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Man Builds Secret Apartment At Mall, Gets Away With It For Four Years

An artist in Providence, Rhode Island was apprehended the other day by mall security as he left the secret apartment he'd built almost four years ago, in an unused utility space in the mall's parking garage. The apartment had no running water (they used mall bathrooms), but it did include "a sectional sofa and love seat, coffee and breakfast tables, chairs, lamps, rugs, paintings, a hutch filled with china, a waffle iron, TV and Sony Playstation 2," according to the Boston Globe. More »

7:10 AM on Wed Oct 3 2007
By Chris Walters
19,582 views, 50 comments

Latest by Colleen: This may be an extreme case, but this sort of thing is common to Providence. A lot of RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) students live(d) in illegal spaces. A few years ago around 20-30(this could be off its more »