"in another hypothetical If you're cool with people doing innocuous things on your property would you be cool with someone coming in your house and checking things out, watching the TV you have on maybe eating their takeout on your counter (they wiped up afterward so its innocuous). Hitting up the toilet (but flushing and washing their hands so its innocuous)...you'd never even know they were there right? so it must be fine."
BRJ-123: The problem with this question, is it equates coming inside your house, and watching TV, as being equal to and analogous to someone walking on , or md'ing on the curb strip. But the difference is: the curb strip DOES have public access right-of-way. Whereas your living room where your TV is, and using your bathroom, etc... DOES NOT have that same public access right-of-way.
Hence how can you make such a non-parallel question ?
If it's true that the parking strips are every bit of private as your living room , then your question makes sense. Which would mean that all passengers who step foot out their car door onto your curb strip, are every bit as rude and obnoxious and someone barging into your living room and watching your TV. The 2 are not comparable.
Sorry bro, I lost ya here. But I'm going to assume that the analogy you are trying to draw from this is : The md'r is analogous to the person who just destroyed the $100 bill-bearing plant. Right ? And the analogy you'll draw is that the md'r is .... likewise .... doing damage that costs the homeowner $$. Right ?
So to make this example/analogy work, we're back to square one in assuming that : "MD'ing = mayhem, damage, and destruction". If this premise is true, then yes, your $100 plant analogy is true. And then by all means, don't detect. In fact, Don't detect even in parks, schools, and beaches. Because the same horrid-ness exists there too (and laws to forbid destruction and damage)
But why this starting premise If you do that type damage when you detect, I kindly suggest you repeat the "target recovery 101 class".