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The owner of Vancouver Downtown East Side butcher shop Save On Meats really wants the anarchists to give him back the store’s iconic sign. The balaclava wearing ne’er do wells apparently stole it and then sent him a picture of it.

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“They won’t stop until the capitalists leave the neighbourhood. I’m serious,” owner Mark Brand wrote as a caption to an instagram photo, which showed the propertied anarchist with the sign. “They will be embarking on a mission to close save on meats. I’m serious. Japanese peace pose. They’re serious.”

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At Vancouver’s recently opened Famoso Pizzeria, an 11-inch Margherita pizza will cost you $11.50; slightly more than the dollar-a-slice pizza that has become a staple in the surrounding Commercial Drive neighbourhood, but it comes with fresh basil and pecorino romano.

Three times in the last 11 months, that was all the justification a self-described anarchist group needed to kick out the restaurant’s windows to give them a “taste of the class war,” in the words of an online screed posted in the wake of the attack.

And Famoso was only the latest victim. Last month, similar sentiments compelled a band of sign-wielding poverty protesters to mass outside Pidgin, a high-end restaurant opened in a long-vacant building on the nearby Downtown Eastside.

Then, on Wednesday, “anarchist” thugs stole the sidewalk sign for Save on Meats, a Downtown Eastside business that every year donates literal tonnes of food to local causes and even lets out their meat freezers, Rocky-style, to host a boxing club for low-income youth.

“These anarchists stole our sign,” owner Mark Brand wrote on social media after receiving a taunting email from the thieves. “Yes, I’m serious.”