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!

A signed postcard by the presenters of Number 73 after I was a runner up in a competition. We were burgled when on holiday when I was little. A few days beforea we went away I had a photo postcard signed by the presenters. That was the only thing that went missing. They were disturbed and ran off, but took my postcard. Bastards.

@WhatDaHell people use Guinea pigs for reptile food 😢

A small azalea from my front garden.

And a parcel containing several very uninteresting law books was nicked from my front door step. They must have opened the parcel quite quickly as the books were dumped further down the road and I got them back

Our (young) cleaner stole my husband’s underwear!! I have no idea why she would do something so bizarre. We used to live in the middle of nowhere, had 2 kids under 2 and nobody had visited us in months. It was definitely her. He had 15 pairs and found himself overnight that he only had 2 left. They actually never met, she always came when he was at work.

I couldn’t even confront her about it, I just let her go.

Months later I bumped into her and told me she was fired from a hotel she was working for because she stole toilet paper and oil from the kitchen.

The one thing I’ve learned from watching Wheeler Dealers on endless repeat (not entirely by choice!) is that the rear parcel shelf - especially of old Fiestas - is incredibly valuable. Apparently so many people used to cut holes in them to install huge speakers that an intact one is a very desirable thing these days.

That makes sense!

Paisleydad · Yesterday 18:48

Personally, I never buy an Apple product.

Do Apple even make dildos?

Parry5timesbeforedeath · Yesterday 20:40

At my old office i bought a big jumbo bag of mini babybels. my particular weakness. left them in the office fridge and had rationed myself to one a day. Every single day I realised another one had also been taken. Dear heavens I was angry. I wanted to lie in wait to catch the thief red handed. I got crosser and crosser every day as more babybels went missing. Friday afternoon I was heading home, picked up my lap top bag i had kept in the office all week and realised that MY babybels were still neatly packed in their shopping bag I had stuffed into it on Monday.

Oh, that's cringe inducingly fantastic!

Galatine · Yesterday 22:11

The philosophical point is the question is it still Trigger's broom.
In classical mythology Thesius' ship is a similar conundrum.

For those who don't know:

Theseus rescued the Athenian boys and girls from King Minos, after slaying the Minotaur. Every year, they sailed the ship to a holy site at Delos, to give thanks. The ship was maintained and had parts replaced over the centuries, so the question was - was it still the same ship?

Well, our odd theft thread made the Mumsnet trending posts email this evening! I've never had that happen before. It's been interesting to read about all the random things that go missing. I reckon there are so many other things we just assume we've misplaced.

My very basic, slightly loose bike seat when I left my bike outside the bus station.

At work somebody stole £1 & 1/2 empty tube of cheap hand cream from my desk
a book case off the back of a van when I was moving house
my knickers off the washing line
i lived in an end house somebody jumped the fence trying to get to the other gardens, I think they fell in a pond by the fence, in doing so they lost/left a wracked off old trainer but had taken my pointy plastic watering ‘jug’ ..that made it all better whilst I imagined them getting a fully wet foot/leg(it was a deep pond) whilst scrabbling around for their shoe & settled on a watering jug… I imagined them hot footing it a log wearing it..

In my bedroom. We think it was possibly an excleaner who knew the key safe details as there was no sign of a break in.

Vibrator and all my dirty pants from the washing basket…

Not me but I used to be a primary school secretary long ago. Major major scene when apparently on the bus home from the Year 5 trip to the zoo, one fairly feral child revealed she'd stolen an animal from the zoo and it was in her backpack, tee-hee. Deputy head goes into the stratosphere in horror of what it might be...

A stick insect.

My pre-payment electric key. Pretty sure it was a pickpocket. No good to anyone but me,will only work in my electric meter!

Someone took my entire wing mirror last year. I had left it unlocked on the drive (because in an idiot) and they removed the whole thing, not a single bit of damage. Just gone!

😱😱😱 That's awful.

My dh cleaned out the shed but ran out of time all the stuff going to the tip put back , next day shed door wide open . Broken stimmer and broken outside airer gone . Saved him a trip to tip but he would have loved to see their faces when the came to use as both were broken

My bicycle seat

Not sure if this counts as odd,but it was bloody annoying. I use a walking stick when I'm out and about,and one day as I was on my way to go out,I left it in the alcove in the communal hallway of where I live while I took a bag of rubbish out to the bin room (I need both hands to lob it into the wheelie bin). I was gone 3 minutes max. When I came back,some bastard had taken my stick. I strongly suspect that it was my thoroughly unpleasant neighbour (thankfully long gone now).

So many bicycle seat thefts on this thread, mine is new - I feel like I need to secure it better!

Table legs/base from the front of the house as we were moving in, just a cheap IKEA one, leaving us with a glass top. From the same house about five pegs from washing line, they actually were holding washing at the time, came home to find the washing on the floor and pegs gone. We don't live there anymore !

A guy I had a ONS with stole my bra. Bloody trophy hunter