Might be nothing, but you can hide alot in a trash can...
Pricey trash cans stolen from Oakland streets (CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15235377.htm
Here's one you don't see every day:
25,000 Stolen Sauce Packets Returned To Taco Bell (IN)
Several masked people this week entered a Taco Bell restaurant and left six 40-gallon trash bags filled with apparently stolen sauce packets, Marion police said.
The bags, which contained 25,000 sauce packets, were accompanied with an apologetic note that said the packets were stolen over a three-year period.
The note's author wrote that the group felt guilty and decided to return the packets, police said.
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/9657603/detail.html