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I ran a red light this morning in my careless hurry to get to my boring orientation. But that's beside the point.

It's 5 PM and I just came home from my all-day orientation to find the apart ment door bolt unlocked when I insterted my key. Well, crap, I told myself, I must have forgotten to lock it this morning. Oh well, it isn't the first time locking the door has slipped my mind in a moment of stupidity. Funny, though, I was sure that I had. I reached for the knob to go inside and found it locked. Cue a shivers down my spine. I never lock the knob. Never. It's something that other people do when we lend them the key to petsit Rupert and it always pisses me off. Wary, I looked in the window and opened the door, half-expecting Justin to be home for some reason or other but knowing perfectly well that he never locks the knob either. The next thing that crossed my mind was perhaps that there had been some maintenance or check-up done, so I went in to look for a note. Thankfully, nothing was flooded, exploded, or infested and everything smelled normal. Yes, there it was, the note on the counter. I looked, expecting it to be a maintenance report and instead found this:



Complete with a patrol officer's business card.

Um... Wha-- wh- who? Er?? OK. Whatever you say. I left him a message on his voicemail to get back to me just so I could know a little more about ... whatever happened. I'm particularly interested in who may have heard "shooting" and what the hell they were thinking. I mean, I guess it's nice to know that maintenance and the EPD are concerned in the event that something scary were to happen. In my mind, though, it would take some pretty hefty provocation for someone to "cry wolf." So what, then actually happened? What made noise if no one was here? Did it turn out to be anything at all?

Beats the hell out of me.

update: Apparently the noise was caused by some teens setting off firecrackers. They got into a lot of trouble, I surmise. I still don't understand why this merited breaking into my apartment though.