Bus Stop Fiasco

Here are the before and after pictures of the short-lived bus stop experiment.

The first phot was taken at 2 p.m. on March 29. A nearby man eyed the poetry board suspiciously but made no move to engage with it. When I passed by at 8 p.m. the board was in the same place, without any poetry made. Two women stood waiting for their bus, ignoring the display.

The second photo was taken at 8 a.m. on March 30 -- the display had been stolen! Cut from its strings and carted away! I had specifically used flimsy string -- I wanted to see if the mere indication that this display was not to be taken would be respected. Clearly not. And sadly, I anticipated this.

But what-oh-what will the perpetrator do with this single bookshelf dotted with magnetic poetry? Are we to believe that he/she took the display because he/she saw something desirable in the object itself or is it merely the fact that there was an object for the taking? As in the cases of the missing notebooks, I imagine the latter. But I'm not sure I understand.