How many times have you had things stolen from you?

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And what were they? Bit of a weird question but wondered, after reading the holiday keys, phone dilemma of where to put them, how often people have had things stolen.

I had my bag stolen as a naive 16 year old on one of my first ever nights out. I literally just left it on the chair 🙄

My flip flops were stollen off the beach last weekend. They were nice but very well worn, I was gutted.
My bike was stolen a few years ago, half an hour after it was nicked I bumped into the thief and my bike as he was getting onto the train with it. I grabbed the bike handle bars and demanded that he gave it back (I just saw red!) he argued but saw sense as I had my phone out dialling 999, he was most annoyed 😂.

Had my digital camera taken out of my bag in South America in 2007, my flat was broken into in South London and a laptop was stolen, I was mugged and my handbag and contents were taken, also in South London, my shoes were stolen at my wedding and I had a few different items taken from my house one month when we had various workmen in and a childminder who was leaving - I didn't notice right away, and I will never know who took them (my money's on the childminder). A ring of great sentimental value, bracelet, tablet, designer purse. Wow, writing this down - quite a few times!

Living on a rough estate in South London, got burgled every year as though my address was on a rota. Pickpocketed twice in London - once by a group of French kids on a school trip, once by the mate of a 'drunk' who fell across me on the underground.
Once it happens to you, you become very aware of suspicious behaviour.
I tried to help someone whose car was up on bricks, but my local police force demanded that I prove that the owner wasn't just doing maintenance on their car.

Oh also - hire car in Spain was broken into and they took various items including my name-up bag! Gutted!

It's a horrible violating feeling I think when you become the victim of robbery, even if it's 'minor'. I've remembered some more

• once when I was at the supermarket checkout, I must have turned my back while loading carrier bags into the trolley and someone must have picked out a bag from my trolley and walked straight out of the store. I didn't realise till I got home, and actually it must have been a real disappointment to the thief - full of potatoes!


• I left a bag in the staffroom full of a set of exercise books and some git obviously wanted the bag so he/she emptied my class's books all over the floor in order to steal the bag. I wish a special OFSTED curse on that colleague.

As the OP of the holiday diliemma...

Purse stolen when 12.
Bike stolen at a train station
Small backpack stolen in Nepal - carrying some precious photos and a camera. Plus a book I was really enjoying.

I had my engagement ring stolen in Lush. I was having one of those hand bath things the staff do and I took my ring off and put it right in front of me. While she rubbed my hands she put a towel over them and took the ring from underneath without me noticing. Thankfully the little shit dropped it while putting it in her pocket and her colleague noticed.

@cakeorwine
You've just reminded me of my trip to Las Vegas where it's expected that chambermaids and cleaners can steal what they like - they give you a safe for a reason!
I started the week sharing a condo with some friends. It was a bit of a squeeze and we all thought we'd mislaid things. Had a birthday party for my friend and having tidied up, left behind $50 of booze for the cleaners.
Only after we'd all returned did we realise that cleaners had stolen from all of us (my book and reading glasses, the birthday girl's expensive digital camera and a pair of shoes from someone else.
Sat next to a security manager from a Vegas hotel on the flight back, which was informative - still haven't got over the casual way that she told me "the idiot told us he'd been shot, when he'd only been pistol-whipped".

I had a phone charger nicked from our car which went in for service. It was there when we took it in but on collection it had never been there...

I had a manky pair of crocs nicked that I kept in the porch purely to move the bins out. No idea why. We live in a fucking village...

Someone stole my pram and my favourite teddy when I was a baby.
My Mum left me asleep in the pram outside the shops as you did in those days and when she came back I was on the floor on my blanket and my pram and teddy were gone!

OMG that's atrocious behaviour. And why did nobody notice? If you were outside a shop there must have been people coming and going!

House has been burgled twice, but nothing we really cared about ever taken.

Purse stolen from my bag in Madrid. We’d been warned about pickpockets, so I’d thought I was being careful….

Cheekiest was the bloke who opened the passenger door of my car when I was waiting to turn L at a junction, in the dark and the rain.
He said, ‘Excuse me…’. politely enough, and I thought he was about to ask the way or something, but realised just too late that he only wanted to grab my bag, which was conveniently on the passenger seat.
And he shot off with it.
Hardly any cash in it, but it was a nice leather bag. 🙁
Needless to say, I always used my central locking after that.

I just remembered another one. Very long time ago. I was around 17 and was using an old bike to cycle to a part time job in a petrol station.

well my bike was stolen. A couple of weeks later I was working alongside another lad, when a young boy came in on a bike. The lad said to me “hey that’s your bike” we went to take a look at it and someone had daubed a bit of baby pink paint over it to hide the main identifying marks.

The young boy who was riding it(10 yrs), was a regular customer. He was also deaf and possibly mute as well, so it was really difficult to get his side of the story.

I ended up following him home, and telling a very disinterested adult it was my bike. There was no argument, but I never knew if the boy had taken the bike or it had been so one else

kudos to my work mate for spotting it was the same bike, cos I didn’t recognise it.

I once had my bag stolen out of my school locker. That day I'd told a couple of friends that I'd won a small sum on the Premium Bonds, so maybe the stupid thief thought I had actually taken the money to school with me. Somebody found it at the bus stop down the road from the school with my bus pass in it, so I did get it back in the end.

To be honest I felt more upset by the friend who betrayed me.