Everything's Suspicious

Apparently, anyway.

I read the local police blotter every day, and one of the things in today's was:

How that's suspicious is beyond me.

 

how is that not suspicious?
it's clearly part of a foreign intelligence agency's elaborate plan to steal military secrets.

 

I mean a backpack and a stereo left ominously in the front yard is the definition of suspicious. The sprinkler was obviously plotting against them.

 

But seriously, you're looking at it the wrong way. The backpack is what was suspicious, not the action of the sprinkler spraying it. If you saw a random backpack in your front lawn, what would you do? Open it and risk it being something dangerous like a bomb (Yes, that happens sometimes. Gangs can be serious business.), or tell the police and let them handle it?

 

You're saying the sprinkler was the hero?! I think they were all in on it. It was a setup.

 

The butler did it.

 

And he actually did in the final case of Phoenix Wright: Justice for All.

 

The police are trained to be paranoid. Every person they pass on the street could be a criminal.

Hardly the strangest thing I've heard come from it.

 

No, the sprinkler isn't related at all! It's a red herring, activated by the true culprit to throw you off!