AIBU to think I should be able to leave things in my garden without them being stolen?

[StarTravels]

Just that really.

Perhaps foolishly I left two 8 litre Kilner drinks dispensers in my garden, along with some small halloween decorations and some bottles of beer. I left them overnight as I was part way clearing up following a party. They were stacked up right next to my back door in my gated garden. The kitchen window looks out directly onto it and you can't easily see it. Someone has walked in from the street and somehow managed to clear off with all of it. I'm impressed they could carry it all to be honest. I'm guessing more than one person was involved. I would have been less annoyed if they had just taken the beer, but to actually steal my kilner dispensers and some glass decorations seems a step too far.

Was I BU to think I could safely leave this overnight without someone walking in and just taking it?!

Someone nicked our dead Christmas tree - we had shoved it in the back garden until we could get it to the tip and it was taken. Even more strange it was lobbed back into our garden about 3 months later.

Tibbawyrots- how bizzare.

In my first house someone broke into the shed and stole half empty time of paint.

Missing shoes may be foxes. They take them back to their dens for their cubs to play with, apparently.

Someone tried to nick my very posh aunties terracotta planter. It must've been too heavy because they'd settled for dragging it a bit then writing FUCKING WEADS on it the misspelling of weeds made her smile. It's horrid though.

Can't believe how barefaced some of these thieves are! Sounds awful.

Bill, 'gypos' is now considered an offensive way to describe Gypsies.

CM had her stinky trainers nicked off her front step. Some people

Not people. That will be fox. They love a good stinky shoe!

We had curtains stolen from toilet in GP surgery
Worst was toilet scented/ coloured block stolen from toilet cistern in pub!

Years ago my partner got his first council flat. He'd not bought anything for it yet or fully moved from his mum and dads.
It was broken into and burglar left a big turd with lightbulb stuck in it in middle of living room. Maybe he was trying to say shit idea cos nothing in there to take?

A few years ago my DF and I had a shop. On my day off a girl came into the shop with a toddler in a buggy. She looked around for a while then asked DF if there was a loo she could use. He showed her out the back where our stock room, kitchen and 'facilities' were, then left her to it whilst he headed back into the shop. She was taking rather a long time so DF locked the shop door and went to investigate, only to find her loading the buggy with all our spare loo rolls - she obviously wasn't interested in the (silver) jewellery and designer clothing in the stockroom

This thread has reminded of last year when a poster had their Xmas wreath nicked by someone on their road who had the cheek to display it!!

pinkstinks The bare faced cheek! Did they take it back?

We lost our wreath off a door when I lived in Bath. A lovely neighbour had one that to my eye was identical. She'd brought it off a door to door seller, who had a lovely selection apparently. She'd have been mortified if I'd said anything.

I've told this on here before, but my untaxed Nissan got stolen when it was in our works car park.

It was eventually established from a couple of witnesses that they had physically lifted it onto a flat bed and drove it away. The cheeky gits.

The only pleasing thing about it being stolen never to be seen again was that the thieves must of felt bloody stupid when they unloaded it and realised the passenger door was unlocked and that the keys were on the dash board.

bill they did! It was a very good thread!

It's bizarre but while living on really tough estates I was never robbed. My car got done in a very nice area and where I live now is very quiet and my bike was pinched. Maybe move back to a rough place.....

not a single I've experienced and heard that too.. Something about "not shitting on their own doorsteps", neighbours tend to know each other more so more chance of getting found out, and they don't think houses on estates are worth breaking into.

These stories seem to give the lie to idea that crime is low/falling - I bet loads of these were never reported.

Someone once took a tatty old holey tshirt off my washing line but left the good stuff.

I keep having dreams about my house being broken into.

I reported my bike. Bloody CSI Scotland turned up nothing for them to do really.

My dsil and dbil had their bikes stolen from there back garden. Secure back garden or so they thought. Reported it and police actually recovered them and told dbil that they had both bikes in their secure compound at that station. Bil was planning on fetching them at the weekend when next day he was walking down his drive and someone rode by on his bike!

Turns out the feckers had nicked it from the 'secure' police compound!

That was fun explaining to the insurers.

*their. Ugh, mad at myself for that.