How to stage the prefect break in:

Step 1: As you are busily packing to leave for a trip,  let your 22 month old dump cards and files all over the office floor, and say to yourself, "I'll just deal with that when we get home (after all, who is going to see it while we are gone?!)..."

Step 2:

Have a computer desk inside the previously shown 'ransacked' office, with a space for a computer, but housing no computer...
Step 3:  Ask your sweet, kind neighbor (who has dealt with numerous crazy issues relating to your house and dog on previous trips, but who is just nice enough to still help you out...) to take your mail inside your house each day.  Go so far as to hand her your keys on your way out of town.  Then, on your last frantic trips inside the house for those "oh yea, we need this..." moments, forget to actually close the front door... and then leave for 5 days...

So that when the aforementioned sweet, kind neighbor comes to your house the next day and to dutifully bring in the mail, she will open the screen door and come face to face with this...
... who will then run back to her own house, call you, who advises her to call the police, who bring in their FOUR squad cars, complete with mammoth officer holding giant canine to investigate said house.... which start with them yelling, THIS IS THE POLICE, IF ANYONE IS IN THERE, VACATE THE PREMESIS NOW! (Nice wake up call to the neighbors on a Saturday morning!) Then have one of the officers call you to tell you they see the tell tail sign of a break in in the downstairs office with papers all over and an empty computer desk... to which you get to sheepishly reply that the scene was actually complimentary of the aforementioned 22 month old, and that you don't actually have a regular computer to sit on said computer desk...

... follow these simple steps, and you, too could stage the 'perfect break-in' ... (and give your sleepy, quite neighborhood something to talk about for many moons to come!!).