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* Happens to Chiaki at the very beginning of ''[[Darker than Black]]''. {{spoiler|They weren't actually trying to find anything, though; it was just to send a message.}}
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* [[Tintin]]'s flat is ransacked in ''The Secret Of The Unicorn'' after his [[MacGuffin]] is stolen. He doesn't discover the [[Plot Coupon]] which was formerly hidden inside it until afterwards—it had rolled under a chest, where the vandals failed to find it.
* There was a ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' satire once, which showed a picture of a room before being searched by the Queensland police, and then again after. It was very neat before, totally trashed afterwards. It was a puzzle: 'How many differences can you spot between this pictures?'. The correct answer, of course, was 'none'.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Dorothy Gilman]]'s ''[[Mrs. Pollifax (franchise)|Mrs. Pollifax
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Warhammer 40,000]] [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''First & Only'', Zoran comes to Gaunt because he is aware something is happening: he surprised a man searching his room.
** In ''Ghostmaker'', Gaunt is startled awake and catches Inquisitor Lilith in his room. She assures him that she would not have done it if she had known he was there.
* Emil Karpo (a Russian cop) in Stuart A. Kaminsky's Russian mysteries did that once—as well as the usual thread, he put a single hair of his across a doorway or something, which let him know the KGB had searched his room.
* A grim subversion in ''[[
** [[Mind Screw|They may have been lying.]] ''Maybe''.
* [[Harry Potter]]'s dorm room is ransacked by a Voldemort-possessed Ginny Weasley in ''[[Harry Potter and
** Technically, she wasn't possessed by Voldemort at that time. She could only be possessed when she had the diary in her possession. She ''was,'' however, terrified that Harry would talk to Tom Riddle in the diary and find out all of her secrets.
* [[J. R. R.
* ''[[Cthulhu Mythos|The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'' has the character managing to escape a room ransack. Of course, rather than his mattress, they were planning on cutting open ''him''...
* Played with in ''Hard-boiled Wonderland''. Two men deliberately break into the [[The All-Concealing "I"|main character's]] apartment when he's there to both intimidate him and search/ransack the room.
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