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Whats the oddest thing someone has stolen from you?

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comedycentral · 15/10/2024 18:23

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 composite image showing three separate frames of three individuals captured on CCTV. One is wearing an orange hi-vis jacket and an orange, grey and black striped beanie hat. Another is wearing an orange three-quarter zip jumper, black jeans and a gre...

Men in CCTV sought after cafe door handle theft

The cafe in Redfield had its door handles stolen hours before opening for the first time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjekzxj4y4o

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CombatLingerie · 15/10/2024 20:58

Ah @frijolito I feel your pain mine was a nice jacket pinched at Gatwick Airport. I tried to buy a similar replacement jacket but never could get one as nice as the stolen one it still rankles and it was years ago.

Incakewetrust · 15/10/2024 20:58

@Nightowl1234 Literally nothing. I didn't see the point in having an argument over a hairdryer with someone that lives on the other side of the country so I didn't reply and I haven't spoken to her again.

DalRiata · 15/10/2024 20:59

Two pairs of my knickers off the washing line at a campsite in Norfolk.

LorettyTen · 15/10/2024 20:59

A bath- DH was putting in a new bathroom suite, he and his dad put the old bath outside the back door and next time they looked it had gone.

Cherrycola44 · 15/10/2024 21:00

A bag containing an old thermal vest and a handful of 2 pences.

Motherrr · 15/10/2024 21:01

A vibrator when travelling in Thailand (I think)... I believe sex toys are banned there! Confused

the80sweregreat · 15/10/2024 21:02

My friend had her tortoise stolen .. that was very sad though and they never did find him :(

DuesToTheDirt · 15/10/2024 21:02

Parry5timesbeforedeath · 15/10/2024 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.

Haha, that's a good one. Did you fess up? And were they still edible?

icklehels · 15/10/2024 21:03

Garden table and chairs just after buying them.

also had someone smash my car window and steal my tube of pringles

Ohfuckwhatdoidonow · 15/10/2024 21:03

A "friend" stole several of DS outfits and gifted them to her sister. I'd been saying for ages that I couldn't fins x/y/z. That it was distressing because I couldn't understand how I was losing things.

I only know because her sister passed on some hand me downs for my younger son.

Just strange.

JontyGentoo · 15/10/2024 21:05

@the80sweregreat @comedycentral They must have broken into someone else’s car before mine, realised they had a Peter Andre’s single and decided to break into my car so they could dump the offending article 😆.

Swanbeauty · 15/10/2024 21:06

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the80sweregreat · 15/10/2024 21:06

Mysterious girl is such a classic number though ! Especially the rapping part

Swanbeauty · 15/10/2024 21:07

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HazelPlayer · 15/10/2024 21:08

Someone prised the BMW badge off the front of my (rather old) BMW.

Years who my house was burgled and they stole a pc etc but they also stole opened Islay whiskey.

If was disgusting imho but I hadn't had the heart to dump it; I was glad they pinched it.

I used to laugh at the idea of them trying to drink that salty peaty smokey bluleuugh.

AffableApple · 15/10/2024 21:08

Elsvieta · 15/10/2024 19:57

What's darked on? I've googled and I'm none the wiser.

Don't Google spider willies either then... Welcome to Mumsnet.

WillimNot · 15/10/2024 21:08

When my flat was burgled, I think they must have been pissed off cos I was very poor. It was 2003 and I still had one of the wooden backed CRT TVs and microwave was older than me.

They stole my CDs (that hurt) and inexplicably, a Kewpie doll I had had since I was little along with a New Look Denim jacket.

I've since replaced the doll and most of the CDs, the jacket I've not bothered (cos looking back it was bloody awful)

Swanbeauty · 15/10/2024 21:08

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Friendofdennis · 15/10/2024 21:09

We had a ‘Santa please stop here ‘ sign in the front garden. The next door neighbour’s baby sitter pinched it as she was leaving. I saw her do it. I rang the neighbour and she was made to bring it back

LorettyTen · 15/10/2024 21:11

@Swanbeauty well it would have, but our neighbour had asked if he could have it to collect rainwater in his garden! Sod's law!

Sherwil16 · 15/10/2024 21:13

I once had a box containg 12 tins of Chappie dog food stolen from my bike which was parked outside a shop. The box was a cardboard box that originally contained something much more enticing ( can't remember what, though), so I imagine a very disappointed thief.

Ladyof2024 · 15/10/2024 21:16

A circular fiberglass disc with my house number and the name of the road printed on it which had been screwed with four screws into the wall of my house next to the front door.

This is weird because it is of absolutely no use to anyone else as mine is obviously the only house with that number in the only road of that name in our town there's only one other road of that name in the whole of the UK and that's in London.

The other weird thing is that anyone would have the nerve to come up to my front door with a screwdriver; it must have taken quite a few minutes to unscrew it to take it off.

CherrySocks · 15/10/2024 21:17

One of our three wheelie bins, with our door number on, which was wedged in between the other two and they would have either had to rearrange the bins to get it out or pull it over some plants and a small wall.

On another occasion:
An umbrella, in use at the time, snatched out of my hands in heavy rain :(
Sounds funny but it wasn't.

Gowlett · 15/10/2024 21:18

I’m thinking of the thread where the friend stole her new prescription glasses, then said she’d bought the same ones…

Goinggreymammy · 15/10/2024 21:18

BebbanburgIsMine · 15/10/2024 18:51

I left a sweeping brush outside once.

Someone unscrewed the pole and left me with just the brush part.

You win.

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