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It turns out that over this weekend, Friday night to be specific, a gentleman forced entry into my place of employment and proceeded to pretty much mess the place up.

Our security cameras first caught sight of him out front, where he threw a large cement planter through our front door at 2:58AM, and then threw a chair through the interior door. We don't know exactly how long he was inside for at that point, as there's really not much damage upstairs, but he did have a couple sodas and a yogurt from the fridge.

He then decided to head downstairs, and this is when the stairwell cameras once again caught sight of him. He headed down and found the door at the bottom locked, then headed back up and realized that the upper stairwell door had also locked behind him. Oops. Apparently he was smart enough to realize that he had to take the third door: the one marked "EXIT", and he ended up out behind our building.

This is when he tore out one of the reserved parking signs and started attacking the shed with it. He didn't get into the shed, but he then threw some kind of big rock through the "garden level" window, which was kind of a feat, given that these windows are made out of those 6-inch thick glass cubes.

That rock went through the window and landed on my desk.

There are no cameras downstairs, but it seems that while down here, he poured root beer into Tom's monitor and keyboard, peed on the carpet, and left a dookie on Kevin's office chair. Classy guy. They also found trace amounts of blood on the classroom doorknob and on one of the instructional books for our software.

Apparently after that, they saw the guy up again in our entryway smoking a cigarette and staring into the surveillance camera. Looks like he was here in all for just over an hour.

I'd heard the general details via an email from my co-worker Michelle on Saturday. This morning, I found my desk mostly cleared off - apparently there had been quite a bit of debris. Thankfully, I hadn't left anything valuable at work. I spent the morning wiping down all my surfaces, which had a thin coating of dust, and dusting off staplers, CDs, and paperwork. I replaced my keyboard and mouse - there was a ton of grit in my keyboard. And the wood of my desk is gouged up pretty badly in places, but I can live with that. Also, he must've had quite a time going through that window, because there are still a couple tiny specks of blood on the wall right here.

Kevin has a photo up on his cube wall of the turd the guy left on his office chair. It's yellowish and disgusting. Guess that yogurt didn't agree with him. Tom hung a roll of toilet paper from the cube wall right next to the picture. We figure that the guy saw our Visual Basic .NET books and decided to create an object on Kevin's chair. (yes, that's programmer humor)

They haven't caught the guy yet, but with all the evidence, we figure it can't be long.

UPDATE: The Fox News guy was just here - looks like we're going to be on the Colorado Springs Local News tonight. I also got ahold of more pictures.