Your neighbors are stealing planters, seriously?

Okay, so I saw this one come across the wire and, I mean, my eyebrows definitely went up a bit. Someone in West Seattle, near The Triangle, reported that four large planters were stolen right out of their yard at 9 PM. Four! That's not just, like, a little pot; these were *large* planters, with a total cost of over a thousand dollars. Like, who even does that?

### What is even happening?

I'm thinking about this, and it’s just so… Seattle, but also so not Seattle? We're a city where people leave their bikes unlocked for a quick coffee, you know? And then someone goes and orchestrates a heist for *planters*. It makes you wonder:

* Were they, like, really nice planters? Like, ceramic art pieces?

* Did they have a truck? This isn't a casual stroll-off-with-it situation.

* Are these going to show up on some porch in, I don't know, Federal Way, looking suspiciously familiar?

It just feels like a very specific kind of audacity, you know? Like, we have our share of quirks and frustrations in this city, for sure, but this feels like a new level of "ki hoya?"

This isn't, like, a major crime wave or anything, but it makes you look at your own front porch a little differently, doesn't it? If someone's bold enough to snatch four large planters, what's next? Your rain barrel? Your carefully curated collection of garden gnomes? It just makes you wonder about the little things we take for granted in our neighborhoods, especially in a place like West Seattle where everyone knows everyone, or at least acts like they do.

That's Seattle — Rainier's out, everything's forgiven.

My colleagues dive into stuff like this every morning, you should totally check it out at mornings.live.