So they're pretty sure that Hannah Upp, the Manhattan schoolteacher who went missing last week, isn't kidnapped. According to the Daily News, she's been spotted in the Apple Store checking her e-mail and has been apparently wandering New York without her wallet or cell phone. Couple theories: she's a manic-depressive who's gone off her meds. Another theory: she's known to be a freegan, and this may have caused her to drop out of society and go "off the grid!" Wait, what?

Upp has been a "freegan," a member of a subculture that eats only food that is free and vegan, and has been known to root for meals in trash bins. Investigators are considering the possibility that she quit school and embraced that alternative lifestyle full time, a second police source said. "She, right now, is off the grid," the source said. "If she did join the ranks of this new kind of hobo, we need to know."

Huh. Seems like a bit of a stretch, five-o—the media has been loving freegans lately—but at this point, who knows. [Daily News]