Hope Me, Junior Detective Squad! →[More:]I'm an exhausted zombie right now. At about 3:30 last night, my wife sat up suddenly and said, "I hear someone in the yard!" I laughed and figured she was dreaming; but she insisted that I look out the window, and, sure enough, there was a guy standing in our back yard. It was dark, so all I could see for sure was that it was a man in a white t-shirt. I yelled, "hey, what the hell are you doing?" at him and he ran out the back gate. Then he hung out there for a minute or two, periodically peeping over the back fence; as I called the cops, he took off up the alley. In the meantime, there was another guy standing in our neighbor's backyard.

The cops came and checked things out, didn't find anything (not surprisingly, since my wife's superhuman hearing allowed us to break things up before anything could happen); But here's the weird part: after the cops left, we heard our neighbor engage his really loud car alarm (it does this really loud, distinctive boo-BEEP every time he turns it on or off). My wife looked outside and saw him standing in the driveway between our houses in a white t-shirt.

So we're not sure what to make of it. My wife's convinced that it was him in our yard all the time, although we can't figure out why that would be (or why he didn't just say, "it's [neighbor]!" when I yelled). I say that's possible, but it's also possible that he saw the commotion/cops and came outside to check to make sure his car (which he prizes) was ok.

I'm curious to hear what you guys think was going on. Explanations? Theories? Conspiracies? And what's the etiquette when dealing with a neighbor whom you generally like but may have been skulking around in your yard?