{"id":469521,"date":"2025-12-24T21:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469521\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:34:17","slug":"edmonton-woman-questions-why-furnace-was-tampered-with-was-he-trying-to-harm-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469521\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton woman questions why furnace was tampered with: \u2018Was he trying to harm us?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>An Edmonton woman has been left scratching her head after a bizarre incident last week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>During this freezing cold snap, a man she doesn\u2019t recognize intentionally tampered with her furnace and it was all caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Marquis says she was watching TV with her family when she started to feel a cold breeze. She checked her <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/furnace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">furnace<\/a>, and it was off, showing an error message.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>She searched online for the meaning of the code and then called furnace companies asking for help. The advice: Go check the vent outside.<\/p>\n<p>When she did, she found the problem: a plastic bag stuffed inside the exhaust vent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m like, why, who? I don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11588446\/alberta-separation-referendum-question\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766612057_687_separation-rally-3_1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tProposed Alberta separation referendum question approved\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11589094\/joyce-beatty-donald-trump-lawsuit-kennedy-center-rename\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766612057_72_joyce-beatty-trump-kennedy-center-lawsuit.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCongresswoman sues Trump administration over renaming of Kennedy Center\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"c-blockquote l-article__blockquote\">\n<p class=\"c-blockquote__content l-article__blockquoteContent\">\u201cWhy was he trying to harm us or hurt us, or break my furnace? That\u2019s what I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Police Service said it is investigating the incident and believes it was targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the sad part of it, it\u2019s just like why? It\u2019s so cold and it\u2019s so close to Christmas,\u201d Marquis told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>Click the video above for more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Edmonton woman has been left scratching her head after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":469522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,128094,4219,79362,79363,213395,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-469521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-cold-weather","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-edmonton-crime","12":"tag-edmonton-police-service","13":"tag-furnace","14":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115776696587634922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}