Anything else would have been suspicious.

In Star Wars d20, one player briefly attempted to portray a dark side Force user. Upon landing on Naboo to meet the rest of the party, he immediately ran afoul of the local constabulary by refusing to pay the relatively paltry sum of 100 credits, and fled into a residential area to lie low. He tried to talk his way into a random apartment building, but failed the roll badly and aroused the tenants' suspicion too. The only thing he could think of to do from there was to toss a thermal detonator into the building, leveling it, alerting the attention of the other PCs, and leading to his untimely demise. At the end of the session, when the player was asked what he'd been thinking, he replied, "I figured anything else would have been suspicious." We still frequently say this whenever someone is needlessly escalating a situation.