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TIFU by chasing an invisible home intruder

I was watching Jeopardy on the couch with ze wife, it was late, dark and cold outside. Suddenly, in the middle of our late friend Alex Trebek describing some clue, we hear a voice inside the house - loud and close - say, « HELLO! » in a goofy, taunting way. Confirmed wife also heard someone in the house, very close, not the TV.

Initiate freak out mode. Doors locked. Kids are asleep upstairs, immediately check their rooms while wife watches the basement steps. Upstairs clear, kids asleep. Check all bathrooms, cabinets etc. All that’s left is the basement, where I recently turned off the electrical breakers because of an issue (no lights.).

Decide, logically, to call the cops because whoever said HELLO is almost certainly in the basement. Cops show up, flashlights on / hands on weapons go down and search the basement, help with another search upstairs. House totally clear. Cops were cool about it and we filled out a quick report, but totally bizarre because all the doors were locked, including mechanical locks that can only be opened from the inside.

Fast forward after a night of fitful sleep, I realize there’s one place I should check. My Amazon Alexa app. Yep. My recently installed « Samuel L Jackson » celebrity voice was activated by Trebek, who said « the centennial exposition... », which our friend Mr Jackson heard as « Hey Samuel Hey! », leading him to enthusiastically reply and me enthusiastically feeling like a complete dumbass.

TLDR: called the cops bc we had a home intruder taunting us in the middle of the night, turns out it was Samuel L Jackson on Alexa triggered by Alex Trebek on Jeopardy.

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