i'm interested; crime's interesting

oh, and i suppose this qualifies. a little b&e, i think, should qualify. this occurred at the old house, where we are not currently living but where we, until yesterday, still had some stuff.

kara's bicycle was stolen. a pane in the basement window was smashed and the window forced open. there was feces in the toilet and someone might have taken a shower.

a couple of pairs of scissors were moved. in the kitchen, the ironing-board door thing was nailed shut. in a built-in dresser in the attic there were two blankets, which were not ours. one of the blankets had weird stains.

there were hard-candy wrappers and pieces of duct tape scattered in the attic. the frame of the screen from an attic window was taken out and the screen itself was sliced out. in the larger, walk-in attic closet, there were two bottles of urine-colored liquid and what looked to be a rope made of duct tape.
officer long was nonplussed, as were we. he said it was one of the strangest burglaries he had seen (though he was young). he picked up some of the duct tape pieces with gloved hands. he wondered aloud if perhaps someone had been abducted and held in our house, because some of the pieces of duct tape had hair on them. he bagged one of the bottles and the strange duct tape rope.

the crime (as lance armstrong would say) was not about the bike, which was the only thing taken. my thinking is, it was some person who is a little funny in the head. got a thing for duct tape, a sort of obsessive-compulsive thing. likes hard candies. doesn't like screens.

maybe i just don't want to think about someone being kidnapped and held in our old house?

we were kind of hoping csi people would swarm the place, lifting prints and tweezing fibers and grilling suspects, like on tv. but officer long says tacoma forensics doesn't work weekends. ain't that a kick in the head?

we came home and took showers and ate salad and watched two episodes of "24," season one, disk four. lots of fans were pointed at us. it was hot. and i didn't sleep so well. weird dreams.

and because what would this blog be without a movie reference, i'll spill that the title of this post was spoken by this gentleman, playing a housepainter, in this gem of a film.