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!

When I was 8 years old, my parents garage got broken into overnight, and the thieves/thief made off with all the frozen chocolate buns from the freezer!

Was it a Vauxhall Corsa? My sister had all the front stolen off hers. They were disturbed so probably would have taken more if they had time. Apparently ‘Corsa cannibals’ are a thing, so the police told her!

My mum always takes something every time she visits (very rarely).

We started noticing random things missing, like a lettuce, half a pack of carrots, an open pack of Philadelphia etc.

I once asked her if she had noticed a lettuce in the fridge as I was sure I had one, she said I must have used it and forgotten about it.

So we did what we’re not supposed to do, put up a camera for her next visit, and there it is, constantly stealing something random every single time.

We still keep the camera in the kitchen without telling anyone, as turns out the stealing is the least incriminating thing she gets up to in our home.

Wish I could cut contact, but then I would lose my dad and siblings as well, which I can’t bear…

Staying in mosney) irish butlins as a kid. My swimsuit nicked off the washing line we had up outside the chalet. Had to pay a horrendous price for one in the onsite shop.

Someone stole my brand new hoodie in work.

Oh and our doorstep milk delivery was stolen one night by a fox

Someone once broke into my car and stole a Venga Boys CD……from a whole big folder full of CDs. Of ALL the music in there??!! Not to mention anything else in the car. So weird

Near us, elderly man was walking his dog when two muggers shoved him and ran off with the carrier bag he was holding. Which only contained dog poo.

Dead or alive?

Stick insects freak me out.

One of a matching pair of ceramic garden pots from outside my front door, it was winter and the bulbs hadn't come up yet. Maybe it was too heavy and they didn't want to have to pick the other one up
Wing mirror cover. When I enquired about getting a replacement I was told thieves steal them to order in specific colours. I bought a plain grey one that is designed to be painted and so far it's still there
A small animal cage out of my front garden that I'd left there while I cleared out my car on the road outside. Down our road people do leave stuff out for the scrap man, but they don't usually take things actually in the garden. The amount of metal was tiny, hardly worth getting out of the van for

Just remembered that a few years ago, someone stole the battery from my doorbell. It was a 12V battery, so if the thief used it in the wrong appliance, it could have gone bang. Hope so!

After telling an ex to leave my house and take his shit with him, found a pasta bowl missing. Only noticed cause I only owned the one. My DS ate pasta 2-4 times a week so that's what he used. Realised the day after.

A few days after that, I was going through the cupboard I stored 3 or 4 bottles of spirits to see what I needed to get for Christmas (which was about 10 days later) and noticed the shit had drunk almost an entire 1 litre bottle of spiced rum! I'd only maybe had 2 or 3 servings from it.

And he'd regularly take my worn underwear back to his place.

It was the bowl that annoyed me the most!

A rather odd one was for someone I knew - someone else who worked for them stole lengths of fabric and these turned up as curtains in the window of a place they based their business, a little while later.

@coldfreezing I had hib caps stolen many years ago (just when I couldn't really afford the cost to replace) someone advised I write my reg number on the inside of the new ones to make it harder to sell them on which was handy tip, although the sort who buy them at a car boot probably wouldn't have cared about that

Impossible to tell frankly.

No disrespect to stick insects, but they're not the most animated of pets.

I had my car stolen many years ago.

When it turned up some miles away, it had a calculator in it that wasn't there when it was stolen.

I still have the calculator. I miss the Cavalier though.

Six year old on a day trip took out a bird's scull from her bag when we arrived back.
How she took it from the glass cage, put it in her bag, didn't break it etc, I'll never know.
It was after a long day and sorry to say I didn't call the place/offer to send it back.
Girl took it home, wonder what her parents thought.

The fuse box from my student house during the morning after a party. We sat and watched them do it too!

Yes it was! really weird!

My two hanging baskets containing pink and purple petunias, from beside my front door. I was getting ready for bed and was brushing my teeth in the bathroom (at the front of the house) with just the landing light on, so the bathroom was darkish. I recall seeing the headlights of a vehicle stopping outside then moving off after about a minute. When I came out in the morning and saw they were gone, I realised that’s when they were taken.

I went on a school residential in the early 80s and someone stole my talc from my toilet bag. Never found out who.

We run a holiday let and after one stay the guests stole two or three towels. When I went to Matalan for replacements they had stopped doing that particular colour…also one pillowcase from a set. The key ring from the door key to the holiday let which had ‘I love ‘town where house is’ on it, which they could have bought from the gift shop down the road.

Poor man, I bet their faces were a sight. I hope they eagerly dove their hands in.

I know someone who had their car stolen and when it was found it had been emptied of everything ... Except for a Steve Brookstein cd.

Some of these sound like dares, drunken silliness and such.
Can imagine the fridge knitted thing was probably the teen playing with it then it got lost.

The single earrings one and similar are likely a revenge for some slight.

Just remembered something else weird taken by my now ex. We were still sharing a car. The towbar and light socket thingy had a plastic cover on it, fitted snugly, so it absolutely didn't fall off, you had to carefully take it off. Replacing with the same soreness expensive for a little bit of moulded rubbery plastic, so I used a tiny plastic rucksack off a keyring as a temporary covering for the ball, until I got a cheap cover for just the ball.
The ball was greasy and when actually using the tow bar for a trailer he would often not replace the cover as soon as it was taken off and I had several skirts ruined as they got grease on. He obviously was just trying to ruin another one hoping I'd not see it. Same occasion, the glass from the Wing mirror was gone, that doesn't happen by accident, one of my walking poles was gone too. So I was looking for anything else untoward, and didn't get oil.on my skirt because of that. On another occasion, I'd been given some rather pretty little, they went, artificial roses, just short little stems, I stuck them to the front of the dashboard facing into the car, not near the instrument panel, Unstuck a few little butterfly stickers someone has given me, with wings that fluttered on the same facing bit. He pulled the fluttery wings off. I don't normally decorate my car, they were just a few little pretty things that reminded me that most people were kind, just random acts of kindness really.
In return, he and the woman he went off with left sweet and sandwich wrappers in the foot wells. I was kinder than I ought to have been, when I took round his post (I did it so he couldn't add withholding post to his list of my alleged misdeeds) I gave them back

Black recycling bin with house number painted in white on the lid (apparently this is a ‘thing ‘ in our village as there are often posts about missing bins) I was walking through the village to the bus stop for work a few days later and saw my bin tucked in with two others outside a house 4 doors up - I took my bin back home leaving the gap where it had been outside the other house - I missed my bus 😕 .

From our previous house a large picnic table, the type with attached benches. This was a garden with 6 foot fences and a 10 foot wall at the back straight onto a mountain. Would have needed at least two people to move it.
From current house the end of my garden hose.
That one really ticked me off.

It's worrying that a lot of these thefts are just opportunistic. The thieves has just had a nosy an made off with whatever took their fancy. When it's from places that are not visible to passers-by though, it makes me wonder how many times they've been on my property and not seen anything they want to steal. There could be strangers cavorting around my garden every night for all I know!

Dirty perverts looking for underwear to steal? It's what gets the up out at night.