To ask if you have ever had your knickers nicked?

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NC for this out of pure old-fashioned embarrassment
Two weeks running now some freak disturbed individual has stolen all my knickers off the washing line
Whilst this is funny it is also very annoying as I loved my knickers! And have to make an emergency run to M and S in the morning as I now have only one pair of knickers left in the world!
DH just asked me if this is a "common problem for women" (?!) so please comfort me in my hour of need by sharing your own stories of nicked knickers. If you feel strong enough that is

sadly I have a confession to make my perverted cat loves stealing knickers of washing lines from our 5 neirbours [Blush] and its only ever underwear never socks though she did bring home the other day a massive pair of boxer shorts (as in actully bigger then her)

I went around and said really really sorry to all the effected neirboughs thankfully they see the funny side of it all I have offered to pay the niebours for replacement ones but they said no need etc (i love my neirbours and not so much my cat any more I never realised she was such a pervert).

While all of them going missing at once suggests a pervert 1 or 2 missing could actully be cats or foxes doing it (I have actully seen a fox steal a pair of my best knickers one time and i had only just bought them

At university several of my nicest knickers went missing from the communal washer/dryer in the dorm. Had my suspicions but couldn't prove it (yuck!)

I don't think anyone would want to steal mine - I'm a 'comfort' girl !

I have indeed had my knickers stolen! My best friend & I were on a haven holiday caravan park trip aged 15. Creepy guy in his early 40s started talking to us on the laudrette, (we were washing our stuff!)

We left, came back an hour later & after checking the machine realized that several pairs of our pants were missing.

A lady asked us if we'd lost anything as shed seen a man taking something out of the machine.

Later that night we spotted the man from the man from the laudrette, he was the "Rory Tiger" ,( yes, he was a child's entertainer wearing a tiger suit,) in the children's club evening entertainment! ????

A man in my friends neighborhood was stealing them years ago. So creepy. i dry them, and bras, indoors since.

The idea of hiding them behind or between other items on the line, so the neighbors wouldnt see them, is usually seen as a stupidly overmodest thing done in our mothers/grandmothers day. A cliche in a period TV show. But it makes sense once you realise this sort of pervert exists now and did then.

Yes! My flatmates brother came to stay and same weekend my knickers went missing from where they were drying on the radiator!

He was creepy. It was after I made the mistake of snogging him when drunk and he then turned up one weekend saying he was there because he loved me. I told him I was sorry but I wasn't interested. he left and my knickers vanished :(

Never.

But on my first day in Japan, my contact at the council (teaching assistant - the apartment came with the job) told me as he was showing my around the apartment that I should never hang my underwear outside in case they were stolen.

He then brought me up to the local police station to introduce them to "the new foreigner".

Had I not been so utterly bewildered I might have been a bit concerned by the whole thing!

I had a couple of pairs taken from my laundry basket by a carpet fitter.

Creepy and annoying,as they were part of some nice sets.

I had a cat bringing home a pair of knickers and a babygro. Never found the owners and have always wondered what theories they came up with in their attempt to explain what happened.

Dd steals mine, and my shoes, and my tops, and my bags, and well actually everything.
Bloody teenage girls.

Lots used to get nicked from the changing room when we went swimming with the school. One day one of the girls was caught with about 7pairs of other girls pants in her bag. She denied everything but she was a crap liar and her mum must have found evidence at home as she wasn't allowed to go swimming or on any school trips for the rest of the year! We were 10.

Also had a pair nicked from a tent once.

ArtyKitty nothing wrong with that, I say wear your owl pants with pride
Rather worryingly the Google ads banner ad on my phone at the moment is for Intimissimi, it's like the world is conspiring to taunt me

My friends neighbour stole hers off the washing line (communal garden). She confronted him and got them back, she's funny.

No never but I was posted a pair from Australia as part of a knicker buying chain. It was addressed to me by someone I'd never met & the accompanying letter asked me to buy a pair for someone else. It was very strange, this was mid 90's.

I had all of mine stolen from the washing line (except the pair I was wearing) I don't hang out underwear anymore.

The police did catch the guy who did it, and our whole street were invited to have a look through the binbag of knickers. I didn't claim my ones back, they were all somewhat grubby.

My cat steals bras, usually my own but not always. mine are 38DD and therefor bigger that the cat. Sometimes he steals them from the bedroom and takes them outside and drops them in a neighbours garden. Mortifying.

i had some taken from a sportsfield changing room once.

I used to go out with a guy who liked to steal knickers and wear them for sexy times. It takes all sorts! He wore mine a few times but apparently they weren't as good as the knicked ones. We were very young and I think he had been abused a bit as a teen. Very sad really.

I have been convinced, a few times over the years, that various items have disappeared off the washing line. Never proven, but I often feel that I am "missing" a couple of knickers and bras. But as I don't have the headspace to deal with "did I lose that or imagine I bought them?" questions, I just go back to M&S and buy more.

I really ought to get properly measured, get a couple of nice sets that fit properly, and keep track of them.....

Yes, knickers nicked off the washing line.
Turns out it was a teenage neighbour. ( I think he was wearing them).

Yes - it was my dog who was nicking them from my gym bag.

We had some go missing from the line at our old house, the perpetrator was finally arrested when he took it to the next step and broke into a woman's house after watching her for a period.

I did some reading up at the time, and a lot of the the literature said that I a fair percentage of 'stranger' sex offenders have started getting their kicks from stealing underwear, being a peeping Tom, before they go all the way to 'contact' abuse.

This is why I never hang underwear outside to dry, plus the shape of our garden means the washing line can be seen from the street and we live on a bus route. I'd hate everyone walking past to see my underwear on the line.

Hullo everyone,

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