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?

My coat from work, during a winter, when it was snowing and I was 6 months pregnant

Someone stole my car aerial years ago...my car was broken into when I worked as a carer. Used to keep a change of clothes in an old laptop bag.....ha bet they got a surprise when they pulled out clean underwear and a toothbrush and toothpaste 🤣🤣

House burglary during the day when we were out. Amongst other things, they took just one each of two pairs of earrings, so I was left with just one from each pair. It was just costume jewellery, so absolutely worthless to the thief, but I really liked both pairs, so I was miffed. Ironically they left some valuable antique jewellery, given to me by my grandmother - must have looked too outdated for them!

My son had his shoes stolen at soft play. Who the heck steals a toddlers shoes?

Many years ago my car was stolen. The police found it and I got back but the thief had gone through my CDs and stolen my ABBA gold CD but left all the others behind. I was more upset at their judgment of my car music tastes than them taking my car.

My parents had their Betamax video recorder stolen in a house burglary. The burglars then used it to try and play their VHS tapes and found (I guess) they couldn’t flog it on. When the police 'had cause to enter' their home they found the broken recorder, also its security marking - bang to rights for a bit of stupidity.
They also had taken my small purse of 1 and 2ps and a suitcase for their haul.

A somewhat beaten up but much loved Littlewoods PVC shopping bag I left in a Safeway trolley, I returned to the shop to see a matronly lady in a grey suit carrying it into the lift. Who even does that? I was so astonished I couldn't shout after her. And then I was overcome by irrational fury, it probably only cost a couple of quid but it irked me.

Heartofglass12345 · Today 14:50

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

Apparently, that's quite common. All 3 of ours got nicked at Cragside House about five years ago. They were on when I parked, it had been raining and started again on the drive home. £105 to replace the buggers!

I was moaning about it to my Police neighbour and she said, yeah, it happens all the time, as the tea leaves don't want to shell out.

Bastards!

Annoying rather than ridiculous.
-An electric fence (white tape and battery unit): I was as annoyed about my wasted time in setting it up as I was about the financial loss (fortunately, I hadn’t yet moved the horse). Also, someone in my village must have seen the thieves because dismantling it would have taken almost as long as erecting it, but nobody said anything, leading to the conclusion…
-Prescription sunglasses, no use to anyone else.
-Home-made food from the car (another waste of my time).
-One (ONE!) earring that had fallen out in a changing room, leaving me and the thief with one earring apiece. Especially annoying as the earrings had been a handmade gift from a silversmith friend.
-My weekend away case, leaving me to travel home with a ticket bought on borrowed money with absolutely nothing except a comb in my coat pocket.

A distant in-law had his snowman stolen.

My shopping bags! They broken into our car and took my baby duty, extra large size Tesco shopping bags. (Tesco no longer make them!).

The body coloured door mirror, headlight and indicator stolen from the offside of my car during the night in 1991. Evidently someone had damaged their car so they thought they would nick the bits off mine. I ended up black door mirrors because the coloured ones were no longer manufactured.

Christmas wreath from the front door. And the combi boiler from the kitchen.

(Different houses nearly 30 years apart!).

A manure pile. We had a pony and were saving up the muck heap for gardens. Came back from a week away and someone had removed it all. The stable and paddock where it was were only accessible down a narrow unmade track so somebody had clearly taken a farm vehicle to get the whole lot: would have taken hours to get it to the road in wheelbarrows. For years my mother was suspicious of any neighbours with thriving roses!

£1 coin out of my car ashtray

DD1's school overall.
A very wealthy Mummy with a multi million euro house and a very fancy SUV, took it. apparently.
Well, according to DD1's nursery assistant she did.
She had done it before.
I think it eventually came back.

I once worked in a lovely country pub.
One lunchtime after service, the owner went in the ladies loo, came out stunned...someone had climbed up on the toilet seat and taken the curtains.

A couple of days later, presumably the same person came back, went in the loo, and stole the wooden hoops the curtain had been threaded on.

Many moons ago, when we first moved to this fairly rural area, there was a weekly newspaper, and in it one week was a report about a couple who returned from their holidays to find that someone had stolen their Aga.

Absolute wankers!

I am cross on your behalf.

Why are some people so grabby?

Remember when the free meerkats if you bought insurance through compare the market were a huge deal? Circa 2012.

I collected my meerkat from the post office on my way to the airport to go on holiday with a friend. Left it in a box in the footwell and used an expensive and allegedly reputable meet and greet airport parking service. Two weeks later collect car drive home.. to find the box is there but the meerkat is gone!! Along with about 46p from centre console.

Now to be fair to compare the market.. they replaced the meerkat for my 3 year old stepdaughter who he was destined to go to!

As an 18 year old with my first car (a proper banger, as was the thing back then). I parked it in a car park near where I worked and it was broken into. There was nothing to take really, but I had a cuddly toy sheep hanging up and they stole him. He’d been a present off my friend for getting my first car. I was so upset.
I drove home in tears with my side window all smashed in, sobbing over my toy sheep 😅

My heart stopped for a minute with type 'took my baby'.

It it had been our baby, they would have put him back soon after, as he cried all the bloomin' time and slept sparingly (apparently colic that went on 6 months).

He would have been a challenge for any child rustlers. DS is now 13 and in fine fettle, despite his habit of saying Oh my GOD! in stage whisper when I have irritated him by asking for household chores to be done.

Anyway, sidetrack - as you were.

1999. Had my sandals nicked from a porch in India, whilst I was with bride to be and female party doing henna and having fun. The family was so angry, they couldn't believe it had happened - found some spare ones for me to have and wanted to buy me a new pair, bless them!

Good souls as well as wrong un's wherever you go in the world.

Sandals were very well worn Teva's. Wonder what became of them?

A wedding present off my car's rear seat. Smashed a window to get it. Stupid thing was I was very poor at the time, so the gift was a horseshoe that I had decorated inc the bride and groom's name. Useless and worthless to anyone else.
I was so upset about the window and not being able to give them the present.

A pencil, some biros, a banana and some CDs. Burglary in our student house, disturbed by my housemate.

Also: WTF is with all the bike seats being nicked? Mine was too, and it enraged me. Is there some sort of constant nicking of bike seats because the thieves then have theirs nicked too?

Roughly a fiver's worth of pennies from my penny box. And a maxed out credit card - but they left my flatmate's unused card!

More annoying were the knickers a visitor swiped.