I just got why each sqid has their own personal design of walking sticks. Using the same model as anyone else is just asking to have them stolen.
Plus if everyone uses the same walking sticks no one would know where (or that) you stole yours.
"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")