You can almost understand stealing a bronze statue or even, you know, like a police car, but a trash can? That’s just desperate:

Members of Garage 6, located at 127 2nd Avenue, were telling police about a recent break-in at their garage when they, as an aside, told them that over the last month and a half, 45 waste bins have been removed from area shopping strips.

Waste bins have disappeared off of 4th Avenue, 5th Avenue and 7th Avenue, they told cops.

With the bins costing $120 apiece, the city has shelled out over $5,000 in the last month just to have the bins replaced.