Why would you take stairs?

And by that I mean off a building and abscond with them? I know. Because you can.

Poe House vandalized while closed during transition

The historic Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum in Baltimore, which lost its longtime curator and was shuttered in September amid an operational reorganization, has in the last month been defaced by graffiti and robbed of its wooden front steps, according to those involved in the museum's revitalization.