[IncPen]

When I was in college, one of my roommates had a girlfriend who worked in the bookstore and lived off campus in an apartment building with several other women.

One evening we got a hysterical call from her that her apartment building was on fire and ran over there. When we got there the Fire Dept. was in full bore assault in the 3 story building, but we didn't see flames or smell smoke. They had ladders, ropes, axes, lights, you name it.

Then, through a soffit vent we saw some sparks and ran in to tell the chief. He immediately called for a ladder and poked up into the attic area. He climbed up into the attic, whereupon a tremendous scuffle ensued. We thought he'd been attacked by an animal.

Police ran up the ladder and a full fledged fight ensued, followed by the head-first appearance down the ladder of a young man, a coworker from the bookstore.

It turns out he was some creepoid who'd rigged a secret entrance in a janitor closet and been living above these girls. He'd peeled back the bathroom fans and gutted the smoke detectors, you know, to get a better view.

I think he got a good stretch in prison, and the girls were suitably freaked out.

The world is full of people with malign intentions. Once in a while they Darwin out.

My guess is this kid is one of them...

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

You might be right about this kid. Sometimes people have little hobbies like peeping on girls in the bathroom or whatever. If this kid was chasing a mouse, trying to correct a bad electrical connection or retrieve something, you would think that there would be something near his body that would indicate that.