Porn, Free: Someone Has Been Sitting in MY Chair

There are things you just don't look forward to finding at your desk on Monday mornings, like an inbox full of weekend spam.

A woman who works in a Wauwatosa office found something much stranger and more unsettling this Monday morning. The spammer had been sitting in her chair and messing with her mouse.

The manager of an office in the 12200 block of West Burleigh Street called police to say that a member of her staff had sat down at her computer and quickly discovered that someone had been using it while the office was closed.

Her computer had been used over the weekend to view pornographic web sites, Twitter, and NBA.com.

The worker then opened a desk drawer to get a pen, and found two black hats and a cell phone inside that did not belong to her or anyone else in the office.

Her manager told police that once during the previous week she had noted that someone had been viewing pornography on an office computer after hours. She said she had checked the whole office carefully, and nothing appeared to be missing or disturbed, and there was no sign of forced entry on either occasion.

The police report did not address whether any password would have been needed to access the computer.

Police asked if there were any former employees who might be suspected of returning to the office.

Oh, yes, there was. A woman had been fired from the office on May 5, and she had a key that she refused to return.

Police took the two hats – "1 wool cap, 1 woven skull cap" – into evidence, along with the cell phone, and opened an investigation that for now is logged as trespassing.

They found that a call had been placed from the cell phone to that office on Saturday afternoon, but the caller had used *67 to block the number on caller ID. That was the last call made on the phone, and the service associated with it said that it had been shut off due to insufficient funds in the account.

were continuing to investigate other numbers found on the phone and were still seeking the fired employee for an interview.

Given the nature of the evidence, they may also want to speak to a man in her life.