3. Mister Ed
Wilbur always was a strange man. He kept to himself and never went out much. The neighbours said he always seemed awkward around people, kind of nervous bordering on unfriendly. Yet things took an even weirder turn when he got that horse. It was a mangy looking old thing, that was for sure, and if it hadn't ended up in Wilbur's shed it was probably soon to embark on a one-way trip to the glue factory. But Wilbur seemed to have a strange connection with that horse every morning he could be seen walking across his big unkempt back yard to that tumbledown shed where he kept the fly-blown old thing. Sometimes he wouldn't emerge until after dark. Like they said, he always was a strange man. That's why it was doubly confusing when he started to engage with the outside world, although soon enough everybody began to wish that he had just stuck to being a creepy recluse. For reasons unknown to his community the previously introverted Wilbur began to embark on all sorts of bizarre schemes, and all of them were highly impractical and utterly pointless. This confused everybody. Were they pranks? Was Wilbur some kind of fringe outsider artist all this time, the whole neighbourhood his canvas on which to paint portraits of chaos? It started innocently enough. Most people could see the funny side until Wilbur's behaviour escalated. Property was damaged and lives were turned upside down. At one point he had barged into an elderly woman's house, picked up a can of cat food and just stood there screaming. Then came the insurance scams, all traced back to Wilbur and all the more surprising given that the general consensus was that the man was not very bright. When the police were finally called, they found him naked on the floor of the shed at the feet of the horse. Nobody knows what will happen now but one thing is for certain. The way that horse looks at people is just plain creepy.