What's wrong with this picture?

someone built the house inside out?

It's a heater in this configuration. Maybe they were cold and only had an AC.

It looks like a bad photoshop job to me. e.g., one of them is not smiling in shot #1, another one is blinking in shot #2, mix and match, and like any good repair job there should be parts left over.

I prefer to think idiocy was involved, and the A/C was installed bassackward.

Also, that looks suspiciously like a jail/prison window, on the left in pic #2.

Looks like Brazil to me. Those A/C units are common there, as are barred windows/security windows, due to the massive crime wave happening there. Mexico is similarly affected by the window security thing and wall mounted A/C.

I was going to say, "it's a heater," but you've actually rationalized *why* it's a heater. Nice work.

Actually not a heater because it takes heat from the room and dumps it back in the room with the only added heat being from the machinery.

Doesn't it exhaust the heat differential between the base temperature of the air, and the refrigerated air it outputs to the outside (communicated from the outside, to the inside, via the refrigerant)?

Noted and approved.

The compressed refrigerant expanding in the inside(now outside) unit becomes cold for the fan to move air in the room(now yard) over the coils to blow cold air. The refrigerant moves back to the compressor but never reaches the temperature of the air inside(now outside). Unless the temperature differential was huge(yuge) the BTUs transferred would be minimal.

WTF is an understatement...

Wow. Do we have the location of this craziness?

More importantly, would the creator like another upright piano to add to the piece?

;)

No, I saw the picture with absolutely no information.