Matthew Hardy thought he'd scared off the man who tried to break into his family's house in Saskatoon on Saturday night.

The man, frantic and covered with leaves and dirt, had tried to force his way into the Varsity View house through the sliding door on the deck around midnight, Hardy said.

Hardy called police. Four officers came and searched the yard and alley for the suspect. No luck.

Hardy and his wife Karen then tried to relax with a horror-comedy movie, .

An hour later their evening went really sideways.

"All of a sudden we hear 'boom, boom, boom' out of nowhere and the house is shaking," Hardy said.

The man had returned, climbed on the deck railing, onto an elm tree and then onto their roof. He didn't stay there long.

"Then all of a sudden you can hear splintering and crackin

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