Guys, I don't know why you guys are thinking that the person or the people who had stolen the statue must be aware of Bitcoin and how valuable it is, or they would think that they can get Bitcoins out of the statue, when the reality is, since I'm assuming the statue was made of metal, that it was probably stolen by the homeless, or someone who probably didn't have any money to eat food, or to buy drugs, and they thought they could sell it and fulfill their need for the time being.

What I'm thinking about is why the statue is not placed in a surrounding where they could do surveillance on it through security cameras in the neighbourhood? Or they could install one for the statue itself. Maybe it was never of such importance to them, and whoever installed it, whether an individual or an organization, did it only to cash on the hype and get some publicity on Satoshi's and Bitcoin's name.