The Case of the Missing Trashcan

We live on a tiny little road with 4 other houses on it. We take our trash to the main road and it sits in a little homemade trashcan holder (some 2x4's nailed together). Since my DH has been working out of town, I typically leave our 2 trashcans in their little holder and then just take a trash bag up to the road when I need to. Much easier than shoving a stinky trashcan into the back of an suv. Anyways, last week I noticed only one of our trashcans by the road. We have a "C" spray painted on the cans to avoid this situation of someone taking it lol. I thought maybe someone drove by, decided they needed a trashcan and refused to buy one, so they just took ours. Ok fine, cheap ass LOL. So trash day comes and guess what?! Our missing trash can has appeared. Hmm, now me thinks it's our new neighbors who took the trashcan. So I thought ok, they just moved in and needed an extra can, no problem. Well at the end of trash day, the can is missing again. WTF? Apparently our new neighbors do not understand the trash cans by the road belong to people. So now I'm sick and stalking the garbage men. Waiting for them to get the trash so I can haul butt up to the road and get my trash cans safely back to the house. Fun times!