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(Message started by: BenVitale on Jul 21^st, 2009, 10:45pm)

Title: Man in the apartment
Post by BenVitale on Jul 21^st, 2009, 10:45pm

One winter night, a man in an apartment looked out the window and saw a man staring at him. He thought nothing of it until the next morning when he saw the same man staring in at him. He was so annoyed by this that he called the police. The police arrive that afternoon, sweating, and find that the man has disappeared even though the security cameras showed no one leaving the property of the apartment. All they found left was a hat.

What happened?

Title: Re: Man in the apartment
Post by JiNbOtAk on Jul 21^st, 2009, 10:51pm

I sincerely hope the man wasn't made from ice. ::)

Title: Re: Man in the apartment
Post by mistaken_id on Jul 21^st, 2009, 11:02pm

May be he was looking at himself. Mirrors were reflecting his own image.

Title: Re: Man in the apartment
Post by towr on Jul 22^nd, 2009, 12:50am

on 07/21/09 at 23:02:10, mistaken_id wrote:

May be he was looking at himself. Mirrors were reflecting his own image.

I would expect the window reflected his image, but it comes down to the same thing.

Title: Re: Man in the apartment
Post by cheesepuff on Jul 22^nd, 2009, 9:22am

[hide]Maybe the guy lived in the apartment.

A scarecrow that was blown away (do they even have those anymore?)

I like the snow one but then the police shouldn't be sweating.[/hide]

Title: Re: Man in the apartment
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Jul 22^nd, 2009, 7:51pm

on 07/22/09 at 09:22:38, cheesepuff wrote:

[hide]I like the snow one but then the police shouldn't be sweating.[/hide]

[hide]I think the idea proposed is that a heat wave made it too warm for snow.[/hide]

Title: Re: Man in the apartment
Post by chronodekar on Jul 23^rd, 2009, 5:00am

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It can't be a reflection as a hat was found on the scene. (Exception: it was blown in by the wind) And as mentioned, it is obviously too warm to make a snow-man.

Assuming that the cameras are good and perfect, we can conclude that this mysterious intruder is still around. Now, why he would be staring at his victim through a window, is another question entirely... or is is? :-/
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Title: Re: Man in the apartment
Post by cchris on Jul 25^th, 2009, 6:33pm

Someone didn't pay his rent, and an angry landlord was waiting for him to leave ;D

Title: Re: Man in the apartment
Post by mikeseo on Jun 2^nd, 2010, 4:05am

Perhaps the police were in a cold sweat because their commanding officer had gone to check it out, seemingly been forced to order the security footage to be wiped and disappeared, leaving his police hat in the hast.

Title: Re: Man in the apartment
Post by malchar on Jun 2^nd, 2010, 10:23am

The snowman idea seems to work. In the afternoon when the police are sweating, the snowman has since melted. Note that the police are called in the morning but don't arrive until the afternoon.

The only problem is why would the man be annoyed to see the snowman in the morning? Perhaps the man was expecting the heat wave to come along earlier and melt all of the snow in his driveway by morning. When he awoke and saw that the snowman was still there, he knew that it hadn't melted yet which made him annoyed.