Whats the oddest thing someone has stolen from you?

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Reading this story about a door handle stolen from a cafe made me wonder what the oddest thing someone has stolen from you? I once had some of my homemade CDs stolen from me on a train. Why would you steal someone’s really obvious crappy homemade megamix with their felt-tip handwriting scrawl all over it? I hope it skipped for them on the good songs!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjekzxj4y4o I hope they get their handles back!

All 4 wheels off my husband's company car. They did at least put it up on bricks..

Ironically the bloody car alarm didn't go off, but often did when it rained hard.

Arnold Layne - without a doubt.

My neighbour had his car broken into and all they took was a cigarette out of a brand new packer......

My bicycle helmet when I lived in Hackney in the 90s and had popped in a shop for a minute but they didn't bother with the bicycle, safety first!

Our vendor took the skirting boards from one of the bedrooms.

Toilet brushes from health centre toilets are stolen frequently, plus liquid hand soap and coat hooks , none of high value !

We had small children aged 3 and 2. My now exhusband was desperate for a mountain bike. We were skint and a mountain bike was of no benefit to people with 2 small children. He had a company car and fuel allowance so it wasn't going to save any money. Eventually he left us and the first thing he bought was a bloody mountain bike. It was stolen from the garden of his crappy flat the first week after he bought it. I was not sad.

I was mugged once whilst carrying a nice leather tote bag and a scruffy carrier bag. They grabbed the leather bag and left the carrier. Unfortunately for them, anything of value was in the carrier bag and the tote just contained exercise books to be marked. I was a bit pissed off that I had done the marking though ....

4 bottles of fresh orange juice that milk man had not long delivered. Just about to go outside to fetch them in when some little screb rode up the drive on his bike and inched off with the lot of them. I watched him ride of non handed trying to keep hold of them. He must've hit a stone or something bottles flew up in the air and smashed all over the pavement and he fell of his bike.

The other thing was my Mickey Mouse ice cream car Ariel topper which I got years ago whilst in Florida. Went to the supermarket, came back and it was gone. Gutted and I kept losing my car in car parks after that cos I could never find it without it stuck on top of the car

In Las Vegas a group of us spent a few days in a rented condo while celebrating a friend's birthday. Left a load of unopened booze and snacks for the chambermaids - only to find out when we packed that they'd stolen my spectacles, the book I was reading and the birthday girl's camera and coat.

I once phoned the police to report malicious damage and it turned out to be a fox.

He did a lot of weird thing. He took a four foot tall cactus from my greenhouse, buried many things in the herbaceous border and finally cut through all the guy ropes in our 8-man scout tent. It was the tent that finally clinched it. After that, he also entered our house and took shoes. He liked leather things a lot.

Since figuring it out I've heard that the fox takes a lot of things from inside houses, including mobile phones and handbags.

An ex-BIL stole my souvenir leaflet from topless-wrestling days.

The front headlight, driver’s door wing mirror and a single wheel rim off my old VW Passat. All on different occasions, then I noticed an identical VW Passat, same colour, same age being driven in the area. They were using mine for spare parts. B***ds.

I'm on a roll - Trigger's your man.

Burglar.. who took regular stuff but also 4 pints of milk and one cigarette out of a packet in a cupboard. Dh disturbed him and we got most normal things back as he dropped them running off… not the coat he’d put on though. He cut himself breaking in and got done for quite a few other burglaries and is currently at his majesty’s pleasure

Some classroom pencils that I'd had printed with "I take diagrams seriously." There were 20 of them, so I guess the thief took diagrams very seriously!

I reckon that the people who steal things that they can see you replacing - such as the bath tub and the door above - probably justify it to themselves that they certainly aren't stealing at all, rather they're just doing you a favour by 'helping you' to get rid of something and 'saving you' a journey to the tip.

However, they aren't confident enough in their assumptions to knock/approach you and ask if they could take it off your hands, if it's unwanted - just in case you were planning on selling/repurposing/giving it to a friend.

I also think there are some people out there who aren't necessarily 'classic' kleptomaniacs, but they see something that they could swipe and get away with, free of charge, and they just can't resist a five-finger 'bargain' - even if it isn't anything they actually want or could use at all: the thrill is in the theft, rather than the getting something good.

The philosophical point is the question is it still Trigger's broom.

In classical mythology Thesius' ship is a similar conundrum.

A lot of people say that if you put something at the end of your drive with 'FREE' on it'll stay there forever. If you put "FOR SALE £10.00' it'll be pinched in ten seconds.

Not an odd item to steal, but was bizarre at the time.

A friend bought me a phone. We were about 19 at the time, and I thought it was weird as she never usually had any money to spare.
About a week later, she came to stay the night, got up early and rushed out without saying bye.
Once I got up and ready, I realised I couldn't find my phone. Searched everywhere, with then-boyfriend's help.
Set off for college and saw my sim card snapped by the bus stop (not her smartest moment) and realised my friend had stolen it from me.
She denied it, we argued and fell out massively.
When we finally spoke again it was years later and she admitted that she had no idea when she gave it to me that it was a stolen illegal knock off, panicked, and stole it from me so she could dispose of it.

We're still friends now in our mid 30's and when one of us gets any kind of new technology, the other will always say "Looks like a knock off to me" 😂

When I was a teenager living at home, this happened to us. Someone stole most of our clothes off the washing line. I'd forgotten about it until now.

It me but my DB & SiL had, amongst other things, a packet of vegetarian sausage rolls stolen from their freezer.

I lent a friend my polly pocket in primary school. She always "forgot" to bring it back. I'm still annoyed, it was brand new, red and was Christmas themed 😄.

Someone swapped their broken windscreen wipers for mine.

One time at work a woman was telling us how she told her boyfriend she wanted a flask for work. He apparently swiped one from a guy's desk at his work to give to her. She was talking about it like it was some sweet romantic gesture 😂

One time at work a woman was telling us how she told her boyfriend she wanted a flask for work. He apparently swiped one from a guy's desk at his work to give to her. She was talking about it like it was some sweet romantic gesture 😂

That reminds me of the old joke about the rough young couple walking through town, with the girl pointing out various things that she likes in shop windows and the lad telling her to go on ahead, then catching up with her and breathlessly handing her the item that she'd coveted.

After he's done this six times, she sees something else and says "Ooh, I'd really love to have one of those..." and the lad cuts her off and replies "Steady on, babe, I'm not made of bricks, you know!"

I was a teenager in 1970s when everyone collected vinyl singles. My friend nicked my copy of Smoke on the Water. I found it in her wardrobe, along with about five other copies she'd stolen from other friends. It would make sense if she hated the song and was trying to stop us playing it, but she loved it and always danced to it when it was on.

i also once planted up a pretty window box of spring flowers. It was nicked early on Mother's Day morning. DH was sure some weaselly sod had given it to his mum to prove he loved her.