If you see coat-hangers on the sidewalk, can you just pick them up and take them home?

I saw these great coat-hangers today.  You might say that the word Coveted actually crept  into my mind about them.  They were just lying there and they were all alone needing someone (like me) to pick them up and give them a good home.  Alas, my husband wasn’t so sure. Afterall, they had a little tie around them and then some kind of little scroll in between the crook of the hanger and the triangle part.  I looked at him and said, ‘Do you think it’s like a message for MI5 or something?”   I put them down.   Then looked at them longingly once again.   They were pathetic.  I needed to take them home.  My husband says to me, ‘Well, when we return from the Pizza Place tonight, if they’re still there, maybe it would be all right to take them.”
Long story short.  It’s cold and rainy and we never did go out to the Pizza Place but instead had a cozy dinner inside the apartment with no stove, but alas a new microwave and was able to pull something together  with soup and salad and wine and it was divine!

I just really really wanted those hangers though !!!