The signs were valued at over $5,500 and when police found the stolen signs, Hoelzl had them neatly stacked and arranged. He’d been stealing and collecting signs over a period of 10 years, as he felt they were distracting to drivers.
Over that entire time, Hoelzl gave back only one sign.
On why he kept all of those signs Hoelzl told the court: “I suppose I thought in some future time I might use them.”
You can watch the full video of Hoelzl explaining why he took the signs to a judge here.
This article appears in Jul 12-18, 2017.
Sounds super persnickety, but this story took place in Avon Lake, not Avon. Both are very much their own munipalities… Not just the general “Avon” area!
This finicky thief would have gone super sign crazy at a WWE event.
this guy should get an award not jail time for removing these hiddious signs that area freaking eyesore