Last night we had a bit of unwelcome excitement. Victoria heard someone sawing something outside. She looked out the window and saw a man next to our fire escape door sawing at it. She showed me than went and called the police. They arrived pretty quickly, but the guy ran off before they could come. He disappeared while we were calling the police and we didn't have a very good description of him, mostly since we were staring straight down at him from four stories up. We could describe the top of his head mostly.

In the end, he never got into the building, but he did seem to cut about 3 feet of metal off the bottom of our lightning rod. We had about three police cars, including police dogs on the scene. I imagine the guy was looking for an office building to break into after hours, and didn't realize that people lived in our building. In the end, nothing really happened, but it was a bit scary for a moment or two.