Squirrel Break-In?
When I awoke today and sipped my tea at the kitchen table, I noticed a strange sight. My avacado that had been sitting on the table was now on the windowsill, sitting mangled and half-eaten upon a heap of shards of its skin. Additionally, I noticed a small hole in the window screen. It appears that our nighttime visitor couldn't quite fit the avacado through his hole, tried eating it, and became dissatisfied--or extremely full. My best guess is that it was one of these strangely aggressive squirrels that scamper around Hyde Park, or perhaps a very strong pack of rats. After all, it (or they) managed to transport an entire avacado from the table to the window despite the four-foot drop in between.
[Insert old saying about UChicago here.]
Have you ruled out humans? And squirrels (or rats) that chew through window screens are a serious problem.
It could not have been a human. The doors were all bolted and locked, and the teeth marks on the avacado were distinctly nonhuman. We actually received a notice from our landlord yesterday regarding raccoons that have recently been chewing through window screens and pillaging apartments. This hole was clearly too small for a raccoon, but the notice suggests that animals are mastering the technique of window-screen destruction.