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Man found living in cinema
From: From correspondents in London
September 30, 2005
CINEMA managers in Gloucestershire, England, knew that something bigger than a mouse had made its home behind the screen when they discovered a mattress, a bicycle, a cycle helmet, a pair of slippers and a wad of Polish money.
It may have been a cut above sleeping in a doorway, but only just. The mysterious squatter in his comfortable, secret burrow will have had to endure three showings of Pride and Prejudice every day, plus Wedding Crashers, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of Were-Rabbit, The Dukes of Hazzard and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - and all of them back to front.
Police are trying to identify the intruder who made his home by screen 7 at the Odeon multiplex in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. But since setting off a security alarm he has fled his lair, which staff found when the alarm sounded at 3am.
Cinema manager Steve Margetts said: "It looked like he was living a life of curious luxury. He had made a nice little home for himself.
"We have no idea how long he had been there, but it looked like at least four weeks."
