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A Wellington West bakery raised the alarm about poppy box thieves Wednesday, taking to social media to share images of the alleged perpetrators.

“A warning to fellow neighbouring businesses, we got our poppy collection box stolen yesterday,” Hintonburg’s Les Moulins La Fayette reported on social media.

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“As a veteran-run business, this is quite saddening to see that someone would decide to steal the box.”

Wellington West BIA executive director Dennis Van Staalduinen broadcast the group’s alarm in a crime alert to other west-end businesses and asked anyone with information to call police.

“File this under the opposite of Saintly behaviour,” Dennis Van Staalduinen tweeted. “Like ‘Special Place In Hell’ behaviour. Please keep an eye out for these poppy-box-nappers in Hintonburg and along Wellington West!”