FACT: my bedroom was in a normal state when I got home on Sunday night (around 11:30 pm) and changed.
FACT: At the time, Mike P, Joy, and the roomies (Hanlin and Chris) were also here.
FACT: I went out into the common area to chat with them until rather late. Owing to the late hour and the fact that I had a rather tiring weekend (see Chris' recap for a brief summary), I did not notice who left the room at any given time.
After seeing Mike and Joy out the door, I came into my room and lo and behold, the crime scene.
Who do you think did it?
1) Chris
2) Hanlin
3) Mike P
4) Joy
5) Some combination
Results when one of them confesses, or when the DNA tests get back from the lab, whichever comes first...
16 comments:
A snippet:
[10:10:48 AM] Rachel: i like how your room looks
[10:10:59 AM] Bob: unfortunately I didn't keep it that way
[10:11:32 AM] Rachel: lol
[10:11:37 AM] Rachel: did you find out who did it yet?
[10:12:10 AM] Bob: nope
[10:12:19 AM] Bob: I have my suspicions, but will wait until they're confirmed
[10:12:30 AM] Rachel: yea
[10:12:55 AM] Rachel: are you sure you didn't do it?
[10:12:57 AM] Rachel: =]
[10:13:19 AM] Bob: hm... I WAS pretty tired...
[10:13:20 AM] Rachel: i know!
[10:13:23 AM] Bob: could I be THAT dumb?
[10:13:25 AM] Rachel: maybe you didnt see bob leave the room!
[10:13:29 AM] Rachel: haha
[10:13:30 AM] Bob: haha
[10:13:53 AM] Rachel: lets rule out hanlin
[10:13:57 AM] Rachel: he's too nice to do that
[10:14:11 AM] Rachel: wait. maybe the least suspicious is the one
[10:15:12 AM] Bob: exactly
[10:15:17 AM] Bob: anybody is a suspect!
[10:15:55 AM] Rachel: i think i knoe who did it tho
[10:16:24 AM] Bob: how do you know
[10:16:48 AM] Rachel: based on personalities of ppl. from wat i knoe
[10:16:55 AM] Rachel: which isnt saying a lot
[10:18:00 AM] Bob: so based on that what would you say
[10:18:50 AM] Rachel: joy?
[10:19:03 AM] Rachel: the other possibility is mike
[10:19:31 AM] Bob: Hanlin and Chris are less likely in you rmind?
[10:19:42 AM] Rachel: it's definitely not their idea
[10:19:42 AM] Rachel: b/c
[10:19:52 AM] Rachel: they've been there so long
[10:19:58 AM] Rachel: iono
[10:20:05 AM] Rachel: they seem too nice to do that
[10:20:58 AM] Rachel: mike has been called devious by another adult
[10:21:00 AM] Rachel: and joy
[10:21:07 AM] Rachel: she's marias best friend basically
[10:21:40 AM] Bob: so what bearing does that have on her suspicious-ness?
[10:21:47 AM] Rachel: um..
[10:21:55 AM] Rachel: maria is
[10:21:57 AM] Rachel: MARIA
[10:22:06 AM] Rachel: and that just makes it more likely
[10:22:18 AM] Bob: Maria is the type that would do it? :)
[10:22:24 AM] Rachel: she wouldn't do that
[10:22:31 AM] Rachel: but she would do A LOT of other things
[10:22:34 AM] Rachel: so her friend
[10:22:41 AM] Rachel: would do the OTHER crazy things
[10:22:44 AM] Bob: hahaha
[10:22:50 AM] Bob: it makes a certain kind of sense!
[10:22:58 AM] Rachel: haha
[10:23:17 AM] Rachel: it's rachel logic
[10:23:18 AM] Rachel: see?
whoa! why is under rach's name? i'm gonna get killed by ppl soon!!! =]
how do you know someone else didn't sneak into your house and do it? maybe they broke in through your window. or maybe it was a cat and you're blaming all these innocent people!
wow... how strange... a mystery indeed!
this is what i remember from that fateful night...
when you came home, the four of us (me, mike, hanlin, and joy) were all in hanlin's room talking. you came in, said "hi" and then went to your room to change. and as you stated, your room looked fine. when you came back, i think mike left once to get water, but was not gone long enough to do any of that. none of us left the room at that time. a little past midnight, we decided to move to the common room area so we don't disturb our neighbors... during that time, you went to grab your laptop from your room, right? did you notice anything then different then? if not, then that should rule out mike cuz he only left during the time we were in hanlin's room which was before you got your laptop... if i remember correctly, when we were in the common area, joy did briefly leave the room to get a drink, but again, she was only gone for a couple of seconds. clearly not long enough to do something so devious... i also did leave the room once, but that was to help hanlin wash the strawberries. he can confirm that. i believe that was the only time hanlin left the room as well. so it can't be either of us cuz we were in the kitchen together... then, at the end of the night, mike and joy went home, hanlin and i went to our rooms, and like you said, your room was changed...
this may go down as one of the greatest mysteries ever!
(rachel is funny btw :D)
Another snippet:
[01:24:15 PM] MikeP: rachels detective work is hilarious
[01:24:30 PM] Bob: yup
[01:24:30 PM] MikeP: i was gonna post, "are you sure it wasn't you?!"
[01:24:54 PM] Bob: it could have been me!
[01:24:55 PM] MikeP: or if your bedroom/bathroom window was open, it could be someone else
[01:25:02 PM] Bob: but then they would have to take the screen off
[01:25:04 PM] Bob: and then replace it
[01:25:15 PM] MikeP: or if you really didn't notice who was where when, someone could have walked through the front door even
[01:25:34 PM] MikeP: did you ever leave the room?
[01:26:00 PM] MikeP: and how does word get around that i am "devious"? that's not right!
[01:26:45 PM] Bob: someone COULD have walked through the front door!
[01:27:03 PM] Bob: I think the devious-ness might have been overheard in Mexico? I dunno
[01:27:17 PM] MikeP: and now it's on the internet... noooo!!!
[01:27:33 PM] Bob: hahaha
[01:27:36 PM] MikeP: i can't think of the last devious thing i've done though
[01:27:46 PM] Bob: now it's out in the open
[01:28:03 PM] MikeP: plus it's impossible to be devious if everyone knows you're devious
[01:28:38 PM] MikeP: although i suppose i'd also think it unlikely that you wouldn't be able to remember who was in the room/not in the room
[01:28:41 PM] Bob: only if your devious-ness translates into suspicion
[01:28:52 PM] MikeP: which it has apparently
[01:29:25 PM] MikeP: it's ok, hopefully my name will be cleared when the truth comes out
[01:29:33 PM] MikeP: and cleared on the internet too!
[01:29:45 PM] Bob: yes... wiped clean
[01:35:19 PM] MikeP: hmm... the TP job is sparse at best
[01:36:00 PM] MikeP: were you able to locate the weapon?
[01:37:58 PM] Bob: yes, it was on my TP roll in my restroom :)
[01:38:56 PM] MikeP: oh yeah, i guess that would have been easy enough to acquire
[01:39:35 PM] MikeP: normally when you go TP-ing, you're supposed to use the entire roll (so i've heard)
[01:39:52 PM] Bob: you have a strangely specific knowledge of this practice
[01:41:10 PM] MikeP: and when you go TP-ing, you're supposed to throw the roll over the trees vs. climbing into the trees with the roll of TP. (so i've heard)
[01:41:58 PM] Bob: fortunately I have no trees
[01:43:09 PM] MikeP: and usually in addition to TP streams, there is also that little cardboard cylinder left behind (so i've heard)
[01:43:37 PM] Bob: so that would imply that rather than using my whole roll, the perpetrator needed some left over
[01:43:57 PM] MikeP: haha!
[01:44:48 PM] MikeP: is that an argument that it had to be someone who was in the house for awhile?
[01:44:59 PM] Bob: yes
[02:01:49 PM] MikeP: you should definitely post this reasoning on your blog
oh yea... to add onto karen's comment... our neighbor does have that black cat who is very suspicious. every time i leave the house, it is sitting there staring at me... i have bad feelings about that one...
rachel's logic is so funny! just because joy is my friend, she would do crazy things?!
my guess is still mike, and perhaps he had an accomplice (maybe joy or chris) but i think the original perpetrator was mike...
Interesting that Chris and Karen, both avowed dog people, have accused cats... almost as if to throw off the investigation...
maybe it was those little neighbor kids across the street... as i've posted before, they love playing pranks on me (knocking on door/ringing doorbell and running away)... there are so many suspicious peoples... maybe it's the little gnome that lives under our house...
Karen's observation:
[05:26:04 PM] Karen: it definitely looks like a one-man job
[05:26:14 PM] Karen: i'd actually tend to lean towards mike or a cat
[05:26:28 PM] Bob: for some reason that struck me as really funny
[05:26:41 PM] Karen: what did
[05:27:02 PM] Bob: "it looks like something Mike would do. Or a cat."
[05:27:07 PM] Karen: hahaha
[05:27:08 PM] Karen: it's true!
[05:27:20 PM] Karen: it could easily be either one
[05:27:24 PM] Karen: you can tell him i said so too
Why is there so much suspicion on us four good-natured people? :) I'm sure some neighbor kid did it as a dare. Did you check the screen door, Bob? Perhaps it was left open. :)
When I roomed with Jimmy, some neighbor kid climbed into our patio and into the apartment while we were away at church. Then the culprit took a bowl of Halloween chocolates and distributed them throughout the apartment. For a month after that assault, I was still finding chocolates in odd places, like in my closet and under my bed . . . .
Here are some more laugh out loud snippets from today's work productivity-busting IM conversation!
Snippets of detective analysis between MikeP and Karen:
Karen: now i say it's either you, the cat, or bob
Karen: great now i have three suspects
MikeP: haha. tell bob to start looking for cat hair...
Karen: hey you could have put cat hair around his room to frame the cat! ;)
MikeP: you give me way too much credit
Karen: b/c you're devious like that
MikeP: name one time that i've done something devious (outside the context of a game where you're supposed to be devious)
Karen: you somehow always managed to be around when all the embarrassing things happened to us in spain
Karen: yeah that's b/c you were devious
Karen: not b/c you were lucky
MikeP: you can't prove any of that!
Karen: but you can't prove it the other way around either
Karen: so...i believe it was all because you were devious
MikeP: that would mean i had to have controlled black cats to chase you, push joy on the bus, magically cause the wind to blow really hard... etc
Karen: that's right!
Karen: you're a pro at this
MikeP: ok, i admit that i can control the wind, but definitely not cats...
Karen: ha! see guilty as charged!
Karen: orrr maybe you controlled that black cat to TP bob's room
Karen: that would explain everything!
MikeP: shhh! you better not tell bob or else i'll send that cat over to haunt you. mwahahaha!!!
Some time later...
MikeP: and what about chris or hanlin? everyone seems to write them off
Karen: nah hanlin wouldn't do it
MikeP: you're making too many assumptions about people
Karen: and chris would need prompting too
MikeP: but if i did it, i would do so much a better job!
Karen: hey for all we know
Karen: bob could have done it to himself and is making this whole thing up
Karen: but you'd know that, wouldn't you
Karen: not if you only had 10 seconds to do it
Karen: so as not to be gone too long to arouse suspicion
MikeP: surely i could do better
Karen: OR you could have done that on purpose
Karen: so that you could use it as a defense!
Karen: "i would have done a much better job!"
Karen: just like you're doing now
MikeP: haha... anything i say can be used against me
Karen: that's right! cuz you're guilty!
MikeP: chh...
Karen: i have to tell bob
Karen: i've found the culprit
MikeP: chh...
And then Mike's comment to me:
MikeP: aiyah, karen now thinks that i controlled a black cat to go into your room while we were all talking to you
MikeP: i think her comments should be discounted on the basis that she's crazy =)
i'm not crazy, just creative! :) mike's just trying to distract everyone from the truth that HE did it.
gnomes would never do such things like that. sniff.
whoever did it (i'm guessing joy b/c she can come up with some good ideas w/ her accomplices), wat a novel idea! should've done it sooner.:P
you should have seen the time we pulled the 'mirror room' trick on some girls in the dorms.
even with the little bit of tp, bob's room is pretty clean.
I say either Hanlin or Chris... because the person didn't use the whole roll of toilet paper. Only a roommate would also think of the cost to self for the toilet paper right? Rather.. I say that they were in it together. It takes two people to be crazy. Besides, toilet paper is some delicate work. It doesn't seem like it accidently snapped anywhere.
~QQ
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