The most ridiculous/annoying thing you've had stolen

[Insidelaurashead]

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?

This is very common in many cities now. Sadly.

Further to my post about the wedding present; I also had the front passenger window smashed and the tax disc stolen from that car. Then one day, I nipped home while I was out and about for work, to fetch a file. There was car parking behind our row of houses. Just a wooded area behind. Was in the house maybe 7/8 mins . Came out. No car. Smashed glass.
Devastating as a skint single parent. The police never found it. It was such an old banger that the insurance did t give me enough to buy a replacement old banger.
That was an unlucky car 😞

One well worn, slightly muddy horse riding boot.

A few swigs of my cough medicine.
It was left on my desk, lid off and had clearly been drunken out

Someone broke into my Volkswagon Beetle parked outside my house to steal a carrier bag they saw on the back seat. The carrier bag was filled with home made garden compost that my mother insisted I brought back with me after a visit.

My kettle. Without the base.

Me too, cost me £60 to get the door handle fixed

My office got broken into and they nicked about £80+ worth of toilet paper. Incredibly inconvenient! It took about 4 days to have more delivered from the wholesaler so we had to stock up on andrex from the local Tesco for the week.

A lemon tree.

AHH the toilet paper heist of 2020. Rocking horse shit down the park that.

The headlamps from my old fiat, unfortunately I didn't notice due to the way I parked until ....I needed them😳

This happened to DH too - he wasn't happy!

We have a holiday home and keep bikes there, one day DD and DH cycled to the beach and me and DS drove down and met them there for a drink.
When we came out of the bar someone had taken the padded seat cover off DH's Bike.

My neighbour was having their doorframe repainted, and somebody stole their front door (which had been taken off the hinges and was resting against their window in their front garden, clearly not discarded). They saw it happen, somebody jumped out of a flatbed truck, chucked the door in the back, and sped off before my neighbour could run outside.

I’ve had my bike saddle stolen. It wasn’t a quick release one either, they had to take an allen key to it. So annoying.

This made me laugh after a teary day, thank you!

I would understand homeless people in a big city, but this was in a car park for a rural heritage type site where my friend was walking his dog. His was the only car with a smashed window. I wonder if they saw him leave and thought he maybe had something worthwhile in the boot?

The bench from my back garden!

We had someone break in, move the motorbike keys that were on top of a box of 20p pieces for the tumbledriers at the launderette, take the coins, then put the keys back. The motorbike was parked outside, even if they couldn't ride one they could have passed the keys on to someone who could.

I misread that as, "what's the most annoying thing you've stolen," and was going to reply, "a keep left sign."

we’ve had a phone stolen from our practice cupboard. scummy patients

A carer stole some tools from my dad. He had bought them in 1962, the year he got married. The hammer and some screwdrivers had lovely wooden handles.
Unforgivable.

My only pair of trainers at Glasto many years ago. I had jumped over the wall so guess it was karma. I was travelling very light. Luckily it was sunny back in the 90s.

About 6 garden waste recycling bags & not long after they stopped making them.

Key to my classroom cupboard. I can no longer lock anything away. It was in a tin which I used to hide on top & presumably a student saw where I put it. I can't leave pens, glue sticks etc in the classroom now which is really inconvenient.

Half of our garden gate.

Cliff Richard cassettes.

My daughter recently had her bloody earphones taken