About a month ago, a worker was fixing the roof of a Family Fare grocery store in Midland, Michigan, when he spotted something weird. He saw an extension cord going into the back of the big store sign. He opened the door to check it out and got a huge shock. A 34-year-old woman was living inside the sign. According to Globalnews.ca, the worker called the police to report what he found. Officers showed up and talked to the woman while recording everything on their body cameras. The video was shared with the public after someone requested it through a Freedom of Information Act request. When police looked inside the sign, they could not believe what they saw. The woman had turned the tiny 40-square-foot space into an actual home. Officer Brennon Warren described everything she had in there. “There was some flooring that was laid down. A mini desk,” he explained. “Her clothing. A Keurig coffee maker. A printer and a computer, things you’d have in your home.” The officers said he was impressed with how clean she kept everything. People called her the Rooftop Ninja The woman said she had been living up there for about a year. During all that time, people in town would see her walking around sometimes, but then she would disappear and nobody knew where she went. “People would see her from time to time and then all of a sudden she would vanish,” Warren explained. “No one knew where she went but no one ever indicated or thought that she would be up on top of the roof.” Because she kept appearing and disappearing like magic, locals started calling her the Rooftop Ninja. Like other mysterious situations caught on camera that left people confused, nobody could figure out her secret until now. The body camera video shows the woman staying pretty calm when the officers first arrived. “I’m moving out of here in 24 hours to get away from all of this,” she told them as soon as they started talking. The police spent some time chatting with her and got her to agree to leave. They warned her that if she came back, she would get arrested, but they were nice to her the whole time. Police never found out how she was climbing up to the roof every single day to get into her home. Warren said this was one of the strangest things he had seen as a police officer. “It’s a story that makes you scratch your head, just somebody living up in a sign,” he said. Roof Ninja: Woman caught living on top of a grocery store for a year byu/D4GR invideos The woman did not fight with police or cause any trouble. She said she would leave and did not get arrested or charged with anything. The officers gave her some papers with information about places in the area that help people find homes and get other kinds of support. “She apologized and continued on her way. Where she went from there, I don’t know,” Warren said. Similar to other cases where police initially treated situations as straightforward before discovering more complex details, the officers made sure to handle everything carefully and treat her with respect. The woman left that same day, but she had too much stuff to carry everything at once. Family Fare said they got in touch with her and are helping her get the rest of her things out of the sign. The store put out a statement saying good things about how their workers handled the situation. “We are proud of our associates for responding to this situation with the utmost compassion and professionalism,” Family Fare Supermarkets said. They also talked about how hard it is for people to find safe and cheap housing, saying it is a problem everywhere that communities need to work together to fix.