California Homeless Man, Fearing A Wild Cat, Walks Into Governor’s Mansion

This story is almost too strange to be true. A California homeless man named Steven Seeley has been living in an abandoned hotel across the street from the Governor’s mansion. Earlier this month, Seeley became concerned he was going to be attacked by a wild cat he heard growling in a nearby dumpster. Was there actually a wild cat in the dumpster? KCRA 3 reports, “Though he’s never been diagnosed with a mental illness, Seeley admits he sometimes hears things, but didn’t want to take any chances in case the roar came from a legitimate threat.” Seeley ran to the mansion assuming the door would be open. In a jailhouse interview, he said he figured California Governor Jerry Brown is “an open-door policy kind of guy.” It’s not clear if that’s a reference to an office policy or to the Governor’s support for sanctuary state policy. Either way, it turned out Seeley was right. A side door to the mansion was open and he walked inside. Gov. Brown wasn’t home at the time but California’s First Lady was upstairs. Seeley says he entered the house and called out “Jerry!” but no one responded.-- More...