00:00This is the terrifying moment, a woman crouches on her roof, hiding from an intruder.
00:07Actress Melora Rivera was still in her pyjamas when she was confronted by a man who allegedly broke into her
00:14home in Venice, California on Wednesday morning.
00:17Alex Thompson, who runs a neighborhood crime-fighting blog, happened to pass by at that moment and posted the chilling
00:24photo to her Twitter account.
00:26I saw a girl with no pants on cowering up on the roof, so immediately I thought, there's the suspect.
00:34Okay, so I got off my bike and I started taking pictures, and then we realized she's the victim.
00:42That's the burglar.
00:43And the scary thing for me is, if someone's going to break into your house while you're asleep in the
00:50morning, and you flee,
00:52she had the wherewithal to leave, to flee, and that person follows you onto the roof, what do you think
01:01is going to happen?
01:02Rivera also had the wherewithal to take her mobile phone with her, calling the police while using the awning of
01:09her house to hide from the man.
01:11The 29-year-old homeless man, who's known to police, was quickly arrested and held on $50,000 bail.
01:18The incident's part of a growing problem with homelessness in the area.
01:21Even as journalists were reporting on the case, a homeless woman was arrested for breaking into the garage of an
01:28apartment next door.
01:29As for Melora Rivera, she's staying elsewhere for the time being, still too traumatized to return home.
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