Homeless couple makes the most out of their hole in the ground

Dec 4, 2012

Homeless couple makes the most out of their hole in the ground

Jerry Jackson 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun

Miguel Restrepo and Maria Garcia have been living in an abandoned sewer for more than 20 years in Medellin, Colombia. They have outfitted their hole in the ground with a stove, a television, a bed and a fan.

: Miguel Restrepo (L), 62, looks up from his sewer home with his wife Maria Garcia in Medellin. The former drug addict has been living in an abandoned sewer with his wife Maria Garcia and dog Blackie for 22 years. Their home, which is fitted with a kitchen, a fan, tv, a chair and a bed, is a 6 square meter wide and 1.4 meters high tunnel that leaks when it rains, and requires a manhole cover. (Albeiro Lopera/Reuters)

: Miguel Restrepo, 62, looks up from his sewer home in Medellin. (Albeiro Lopera/Reuters)

: Colombian Maria Garcia drinks coffee inside her sewer home. (Raul Arboleda/Getty Images)

: Maria Garcia cooks in the kitchen of her sewer home in Medellin. Together with her husband, Miguel Restrepo (not pictured), 62, a former drug addict, the pair has been living in an abandoned sewer with their dog Blackie for 22 years. (Albeiro Lopera/Reuters)

: Miguel Restrepo, 62, lies with his dog in his sewer home in Medellin. (Albeiro Lopera/Reuters)

: Miguel Restrepo, 62, and wife Maria Garcia (R) make Christmas ornaments outside their sewer home in Medellin. (Albeiro Lopera/Reuters)

: Miguel Restrepo, 62, plays with his dog Blackie in his sewer home in Medellin. (Albeiro Lopera/Reuters)

: Colombian Maria Garcia looks at her dog. (Raul Arboleda/Getty Images)

: Miguel Restrepo, 62, plays with his dog Blackie at his sewer home in Medellin. (Albeiro Lopera/Reuters)

: Colombian Miguel Restrepo helps his dog get out of the sewer where they live in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia. Restrepo, 62, is a homeless man who has lived with his wife for more than twenty years in a sewer, near Medellin’s downtown. The place is around three by two by 1.4 meters of height and has a stove, a television, a bed and a fan. (Raul Arboleda/Getty Images)

: Colombian Miguel Restrepo (L) prepares a Christmas tree as his wife Maria Garcia watches from the sewer. (Raul Arboleda/Getty Images)

: Colombian Miguel Restrepo repairs the electricity installation inside the sewer where he lives. (Raul Arboleda/Getty Images)

: Colombian Miguel Restrepo (L), rests with his wife Maria Garcia and their dog on a bed inside a sewer. (Raul Arboleda/Getty Images)

: Miguel Restrepo, 62, looks up from his sewer home in Medellin. (Albeiro Lopera/Reuters)

: Miguel Restrepo, 62, looks up from his sewer home in Medellin. The former drug addict has been living in an abandoned sewer with his wife Maria Garcia and dog Blackie for 22 years. Their home, which is fitted with a kitchen, a fan, tv, a chair and a bed, is a 6 square meter wide and 1.4 meters high tunnel that leaks when it rains, and requires a manhole cover. (Albeiro Lopera/Reuters)

: Colombian Miguel Restrepo gets out of the sewer where he lives in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia. (Raul Arboleda/Getty Images)

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