A St. James spa owner hopes Winnipeggers on social media will help identify the pair who stole the two flower pots outside her business earlier this week.

Mira Straczynski says her surveillance cameras caught a man and woman driving up to her spa, Forget Me Not Day Spa, and hauling the pots into their red pickup truck at around 2 a.m. Tuesday.

"Why are they doing it? You know, you [are] driving a pretty expensive truck and you go for $50 pots of flowers?" she told CBC News on Friday.

Mira Straczynski says she when she posted video footage of the flower pot theft on Facebook, the owner of a Chicken Chef told her of an incident involving a similar vehicle. (CBC) "Well, if you want it that bad, come to me. I [am] gonna buy you one," she added with a laugh.

The video footage shows the truck's licence plate number, but Straczynski said she cannot make out the numbers.

Straczynski said when she posted the video on Facebook, the owner of a Chicken Chef on Portage Avenue told her that the restaurant had been vandalized by people in a similar vehicle.

"We're going to expose them in that way so hopefully they [are] going to get caught or people planning to do that, they [are] going to get a message … at least if they [are] going to see it on TV, it's going to make them think twice before they do it again," she said.

Straczynski said her flower pots have been stolen outside her spa before, so she started dragging them back inside, but she brought the planters back out last year and they survived the entire season.

This year, the pots had been outside for only a week before they were swiped.

Winnipeg police say they are looking into the incident.