Coulda been worse. He could have chucked Elle down the el shaft. You know Chuck and Elle been arguing ever since they broke up.
It does remind me of a detective story though. Herr Herr and Herr Heinz, the two famous German investigators (though not as famous as Holmes, or even Poirot, they were quite well known in their day) were on a case one time. For some reason part of their case depended on proving that a certain woman had been in a certain hotel room.
They got permission from the desk clerk to investigate the room. They searched it from top to bottom for clues, but for a while it seemed hopeless.
Then suddenly Herr Heinz darted into a shadowed corner and held up something long and thin. "Here, Herr Herr! Her hair!"