The guy leaving flyers at houses in Dogtown Sunday morning should have read them before stealing a package off homeowner Valerie Hoven’s porch, she says.

“Vote yes on Prop P, Improve neighborhood safety,” the flyer said, according to Hoven. The proposition before city voters Tuesday would establish a half-cent sales tax to give the city’s police officers and firefighters a raise.

“That was just too ironic,” said Hoven, 33.

A security camera captured the young man approaching Hoven’s door on Ripple Street with the literature, and leaving with a package that had been delivered earlier in the morning, Hoven said. Her husband, Michael Reichert, 36, arrived home a short time later. He looked at the security footage when he couldn’t find the package he knew had been delivered.

“My husband got in his car and said that (the thief) was probably still in the neighborhood delivering, and took off,” Hoven said. Reichert spotted the suspect around the corner at Wade Avenue and Graham Street.