Teen Wal-Mart home - A Texas teenager had lived unnoticed for four days inside a 24-hour Wal-Mart after he reportedly ran away from his aunt's home, cops said Wednesday.
The teen Wal-Mart home story is pretty interesting for the fact that the 14-year-old boy had managed to sneak around the establishment for more than a day without employees and customers catching him.
"Normally if there's a child missing in a store we're actively looking for that child," Wal-Mart spokesman Brian Nick, said. "We just didn't have any knowledge that this child was missing, and certainly not in one of our stores."
Nick went to explain that a teenager wandering around a Wal-Mart wouldn't have caught an employee's attention, especially not in a 200,000 square feet Supercenter where thousands of customers come and go.
So how did the boy in the teen Wal-Mart home case remained inconspicuous the whole time?
According to a CBS Dallas report, the teen had built "2 campsites" inside the Corsicana store - one of them was on the aisle carrying baby products behind stroller boxes, and the other was behind stacks of toilet papers and paper towels.
"You would never expect that you're at Walmart there's someone living there and has been living there for four days. That's crazy," Wal-Mart customer Myrna Aguilar said.
The boy is said to have made a makeshift bed, store necessities and eat store items inside his hidden compounds, and customers who walked down his aisle never noticed him and his improvised dwelling. He also reportedly created a crack in the back of the wall of the drink aisle to grab something to drink. Furthermore, he would also change his clothes every few hours so as to remain unrecognizable, and would even wear diapers instead of using the store restroom for fear of being caught.
He was ultimately busted when a store employee spotted him stepping out from behind some boxes along the baby apparel aisle, ABC News has learned. And when the worker cleared away the boxes, a couple of items indicative of his stay was found, Nick said. A trash trail eventually confirmed his act.
Cops were reportedly called and the boy in the teen Wal-Mart home case was eventually handed back to his relatives.
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