Anyone know what this is about?

[Carey Begbie Westerfield]

For a few years now, I've seen small wood cutouts swinging from power/phone lines over Rancho Park's intersections.  The latest version looks like a burglar complete with a fedora, trench coat and bag of money.  One side is painted gold and the other, black.  It appears to be hanging from a string and the other end is usually tied to a padlock, presumably used to toss the cutout in the air to get hung up on the lines.  I think I've seen 5 or 6 of these on the Westside.  Before this version, there were at least 10 peace-dove cutouts hung in the same manor around the area.

Anyone have any idea what they mean?

Just a curious neighbor...