The most ridiculous/annoying thing you've had stolen

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We were burgled a couple of months ago, whilst we were petsitting for a friend and our house was empty. They stole the usual (partners PS5, jewellery, a tin of coins we had on the kitchen windowsill, my camera) but also a pillowcase from my favourite, no longer made set, clearly to carry their loot in. Anyway today I've gone looking for a denim bag I have, that I've been sewing flag patches on for each country I've visited, as I wanted to add more to it. It's absolutely not in this house, I've looked everywhere, so they've stolen a cheap bag, with about £75 (25 or so patches at £3 each) flags, in order of when I personally visited those countries-that will be no use to anyone else.

I am cross, not least because spending another £75+ to replace this seems wasteful, but I really did love that bag.

What's the most ridiculous thing you've had stolen?

@piscofrisco For you...

The windscreen wipers off my car, the back one didn't even work properly lol

It was either a £10 or £12 primark puffer jacket (we're going back a good few years now) left in the corner of a bar/club. At some point somebody nicked it and I froze on the way home.

It was amongst a pile of other coats, which was the most baffling part. It must have looked the warmest!

Years ago someone broke into my ford fiesta and stole the parcel shelf.

How'd this mugging go down?

Did they directly ask for the salmon? Did they rake anything else?

A bit different, but my friends office was broken into and ransacked, random things taken and drawers emptied and stuff thrown everywhere. There were 5 other women who also worked in the same office, the attending police officer said to my friend "I have never seen so many packets of cup a soup in a room before"!
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Could have been a cat! There was a story in the news about a year or so ago about a cat stealing £100s worth off stuff from washing lines, and I think mostly small items which makes sense as a cat couldn’t drag a pair of jeans but could easily manage a bra.

Weirdest one we’ve had is the railing from the front garden. And one where our car got broken into but they only stole DD’s felt tips, and they did next door’s car too and took their wellies.

The dog poo pedal bin which sat at the back door. Tbf it’s made me laugh to myself for years whenever it’s come to mind!!

An alarm clock, presumably to wake them up in time to go thieving..

When my great aunt went into a care home, they stole a jade ring I had bought her to replace one my grandfather had bought her and which had been stolen from her flat by the house movers in a previous house lmove. Both rings had been bought in the Far East, neither very expensive.

Also, someone stole the bolt out of my front bicycle wheel. Didn't notice until it came off in the middle of traffic/ fun times.

The last six antibiotics in the pack from my locker at work. Had to get an emergency prescription! Not sure what they wanted six amoxicillin for but I hope they really needed them!

My microwave. I lived in a house with a chest height wall around the back yard. We were decorating so I popped it on the wall while my partner brought the car around. Phone rang and by the time I'd got back it had gone. It was up against the house so the person would have had to have come into the yard (through a locked gate) to take it.

Many years ago when I was moving into my flat, my dad propped up the stand for the baby bath against a tree while he was helping us move in. We got into the flat, realised what happened and went back to get it and it was gone. Who would want a baby bath stand? We wondered if they'd been watching us from a distance and seized their opportunity or was it just happenstance, randomly walking past and then a quick grab?

I had a carrier bag which had been full of exercise books stolen once at work. The books had been roughly emptied out of the bag and left on the floor. So rude.

My large bath towel from the side of a swimming pool, at a gym. I had to dry myself with a pair of trainer socks 🙃

@Rtgbkg no they weren't that specific. One ride past on his bike and grabbed my shopping bag, the other pushed me over.
It was on London's then trendy upper street so I can only assume they thought I would have something worth having in the shopping bag. (Well I did, if you like salmon a lot and had a fish kettle big enough to poach the bastard).

Years ago, not in the Uk, I got held up at knife point… for my baseball hat?! Not my phone or money.
Was so fucking ridiculous and it kind still pisses me off absolutely years later as I loved that hat

My ex was mugged and they took his kfc burger that he hadn't even managed to take a bite out of yet.

I think he was more pissed about that than the wallet in all honesty 😂

I left a changing bag in the loos at a shopping centre. Went to security to see if it had been handed it (it was an expensive bag) and not only had all the nappies and wipes been stolen but also a little stone flower I had bought to put on my grandmother's grave later that afternoon. I bought it for £6 so it was worthless really and probably got chucked in a bush but it was her favourite flower and I bought it in a shop while on holiday and haven't seen another since. And they didn't even bother stealing the bag (it was a samsonite bag that I used as a changing bag)

So pointless, so sad.

When my house was broken into, amongst the usual things (cash, jewellery) they took some DVDs. We found it vaguely amusing to imagine burglars musing over our DVD collection and deciding which ones to take 😂
Also had my brand new flip flops stolen while on a camping holiday in France (still cross about that nearly 20 years later). They were really nice ones from Accessorise too!

Car windscreen protector

A little soft toy - a ladybird- I kept on the dashboard of my car.
My sports shoes, stolen from my car. They were very muddy and were kept in a shoe bag.

I bet the thief was really disappointed when they opened the bag. 😀

I miss that wee ladybird.

After my Mum passed away in our local hospital some thieving bastard stole the small gold chain she was wearing off her. A couple of days later my DH went in to the ward to collect her belongings and it was nowhere to be seen. We knew she was still wearing after she’d passed because we saw her. Because my Dad was obviously very distraught we decided not to tell him.
I had enough to deal with without the trauma of an enquiry etc. I hope life dealt them some kind of karma.

My recycling bin, to get a new one, I needed to report it to the police, they contacted me to discuss it and also got an offer of a referral to victim support! I actually got my car vandalised a few months before along with several others in the street and the police were completely uninterested even querying if I really did want to report it.

Oh interesting! I would have assumed they somehow broke it or ripped it off the wall by mistake and couldn’t get it back on, panicked, stuffed it in their bag and took it with them, rather than stealing it to use.

Someone smashed the back window of my friends car (a BMW) and stole his clothes out of the boot. Very odd!

One curtain from a pair of curtains in a house we rented out.
It has always puzzled me - what use is a single curtain to anyone?