Campaign Sign Theft

Deer Camera Catches Sign Theft is the headline in Today's WDT, section B page 5.  What motivates a man in his middle forties to commit a petty larceny.  Is he a political activist?  Probably not!  I am guessing he is more like a bounty hunter.  Paid off by a third party for every [enemy] sign captured.  I wonder who that third party might be?  Lets resist the urge to point fingers at the opposing parties in this race.  After all they will claim that they to have lost signs too.  How about this scenario......  The sign thief is hired by a third party to steal Martha Millett's signs.  But to create a distraction, the thief is also instructed to take some Sutton, Durand, Williams, Bain, Schultz, Cummings and others signs.  This way it can be said that everyone has some signs that are being stolen or otherwise rendered not usable.  Here is the difference.  Maybe some of the signs that were stolen are being returned to the owners. To be placed elsewhere.   Just a theory......!  Kind of like the Lone Gunman theory.......