Caught on tape: nastiness!

From Houstonist's "Maybe It's Time to Find a New Place to Live" file: A Houston woman became suspicious when she would come home to find lights on that she knew she'd turned off when she left her apartment. So she set up a cleverly disguised camera, and what she found was rather disgusting.

On November 15, while she was at work, the camera captured images of a man entering her apartment appearing to use a key. He leaves, then returns and walks right into a trap.

"Right by the door was the sofa, so I laid some lingerie and other things on it and so it worked," she said.

He handled the lingerie, put on a camisole and underwear, and engages in self-gratification. Before he left, he arranged the underwear as he found it.

Eeeeeewwww! Houstonist has the creeps!

The next thing the camera captured is the woman returning from work. She plugged the camera into her computer, and saw the video of a stranger and screamed on the phone to her boyfriend.

OK, that's a little strange. If she plugged the camera into her computer, wouldn't she see herself screaming on the phone? "My god, there's a woman in my house screaming on the phone and she looks just like me!" Yeah, yeah, we know, back to the point:

Entering someone's apartment without their permission is considered a misdemeanor under local law. What might end up getting this guy in more trouble is that he seems to have been stalking the woman — neighbors said they have seen him sitting in his car, watching her leave for work, and police said an X-rated video was left beside the woman's car. Stalking is a felony offense, and we're sure there must be some obscure law out there about leaving porn on a parking lot.

No one's sure how the man got a key to the apartment, if he indeed has one, but police have DNA evidence and fingerprints. We're waiting to hear what this guy has to say for himself; in the meantime, we're thinking Houstonist World Headquarters might need one of those nifty cameras to go with our 7-Up can safe ... which isn't a secret anymore.