Podbit · Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Keli walked to her Pontiac Sunbird convertible one morning to find a hole cut in the soft top, a substance on her steering wheel and windshield, and a Polaroid tucked under the wiper: a shirtless man, acid-wash jeans, top button fastened, zipper fully down. The police finally got involved.
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After a month of quiet, the slow tap arrives: while sitting at her desk during the day, Keli hears someone knock softly on her window, bolts screaming from the room, and the stalker flees before her mom can see him. Over the following weeks, the tapping happens repeatedly. Dax suggests a Punji pit; Keli's mother opts for the family black lab, Buddy. [1] — Keli "Rather than calling police, Keli and her mom devised a plan: Keli would kick the wall as a signal, mom would release their black lab Buddy.…" 06:24 The plan is intricate for a non-police solution: Keli kicks the wall, mom gets the signal, Buddy is unleashed. When the tapping returns one evening, the plan executes — and Buddy tears off into the night, his path illuminated for Keli and her mom on the back porch by the sequential triggering of neighbors' motion-sensor lights. He doesn't catch the stalker, but the neighborhood goes dark.
Keli and her mom set a trap using their black lab Buddy: after hearing the coded knock, the mom released Buddy, who chased the stalker across multiple neighbors' yards, visible by the motion-sensor lights triggering in sequence.
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