This piece is grumpy, insulting, and hilarious. I got about three very solid chuckles out of it.
About 50 years ago, I read a book about a carved toy canoe that had a brass plate on the bottom for people to write to to say where it had been found.
Hitchbot is just a very slightly high tech version of that wandering carved toy canoe.
There should be more respect for property, of course.