Dambit! I hate crap like that, too!
The street light which I next to my house went out last week (Duke Power says, "we'll get right on it." yeah, right.) Two days later, I wake up to find that someone stole my DAN (Divers Alert Network) license plate off my car. Not only that but they took the whole damn frame! I now have two enlarged bracket mount holes where they must have pried the whole thing off. I guess I should be thankful that no one is interested in stealing my beat-up truck to which the plate was attached.
And the same thing for the little portable gas grill that was taken from my front porch this past winter.
Burns my biscuits and puts me in a foul mood the whole day.