Can’t believe someone would steal a child’s coat!

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Just a rant really, I’m livid took kids out to a play area. had food then moved into play area. Somewhere from moving from one room to another it seems my 2 yo had her coat taken. I’d hoped I’d just left it on the 1st table but I actually went back to check as I had left dd7 shoes under the table and double checked I’d picked everything thing up. I do the usual and keep an eye on phone/purse the obvious things but never thought for one moment someone would take a child’s coat. We searched the pub and lost property but not handed in. It’s snowing but luckily we were in the car but imagine if we’d had to walk home with a 2 yo with no coat! Obviously I’d give her mine if we had to walk. I just keep saying to myself at least a child will be warm. The coat wasn’t a cheap one so this may be why it’s disappeared. Just waiting to see if cctv shows anything. I’m so gutted and can’t buy another as it’s no longer in stock. Not sure I’m upset I’ve lost her lovely coat or the fact it’s deliberately been taken!

Our DS’ nursery had a ‘cage’ where the childrens own bikes were kept. They’d scoot/bike to nursery. Thieves waited til the gates were unlocked for a few minutes for bin access then piled all the bikes and scooters belonging to the little ones into a van.

We had a lady at the school steal my little boys jumper and then bring her kid in it the next day. (Pre school) had a mega toe with her as it had a certain bleach stain and she's ripped the name out. Couldn't get it back though. Also had a mum try and steal a hatley coat only for me to run down the road after her and get it back. I will literally shame any mum stealing my kids shit.

As in someone came forward as accidently taking it or they found the theif?

Pub with play area you reap what you so

Sow. Not sure where that W went

When ds was tiny, I think just under 12 months, we were on holiday at a caravan park. Dh left his coat in the changing room after coming out of the pool. He went straight back in but someone had already stolen it! They must have been getting changed at the exact same time as them 😠 I could not believe how sick this is.
Once out with friends and someone stolen my friends dds coat from a soft play area.
Recently my friend had her purse stolen from her bag whilst she was tending to her child in a soft play area. The security team confirmed it was a smartly dressed woman with twins when they checked the cctv.
At a swimming pool on holiday I told a child, who was with her thieving mother, to put my child s armbands back. She was an older child but obviously thought that anything not nailed down is fair game.

I posted it all over Facebook mentioning the cctv and someone came forward saying they’d piled it with all the party kids stuff. I hope it is a genuine mistake and will go with that.

If they've contacted you the overwhelming probability is that it was an accident. But even if it wasn't they're doing the right thing now, so I'd give them an enormous benefit of the doubt.

When I was a child we had a village fete. It was a bit day and I was with my best friend and her 3 siblings. Her brother took off his jumper and someone stolen it. Later we saw another boy wearing it. His mum confronted the theif only for the thief to deny it. The thing was his mum had knitted it herself and it was very shall we say unique! He kept denying it saying his mum had bought it from a shop, refusing to take it off and show the shop label. We walked away but then the thief came up to us and admitted that he had stolen it. It always sticks in my mind because it was a stiff, thick uncomfortable looking jumper it reminded me of Joseph and his Technicolor dream coat ☺.

My son’s JD Bug scooter was nicked outside his primary school years ago. Unbelievably, about a month later the child who sold it offered to sell it to my mum 🤯

The child who *stole it

Spelling mistake there!

I work in a Secondary School.

I think about 80% of the 'thefts' are actually kids abandoning their stuff wherever it falls and not going back to look for it, as every lesson, there are things left behind and the site team always have at least five things to hand in when they litterpick after lunch.

I find coats, PE kits, bags, sunglasses, prescription glasses, phones, mp3 players, earphones, hats, scarves, gloves, makeup bags, musical instruments, homework for other subjects, pens, pencils, maths sets, calculators, diaries, lunches, shoes, umbrellas, bus passes and on one occasion, a bag containing a wallet with £30, a bus pass, a bank card with the PIN written down and a kid's immigration department ID card.

That last one meant I called his carer, who said he'd been hysterical when he got home because he was convinced it had been stolen during PE and if he'd been stopped by the police, he'd have been arrested and deported immediately. Had he come back to his class, he'd have been handed it within ten minutes of realising he didn't have it. Three lessons after PE, too (so it couldn't have gone missing then, as he'd carried it in).

My dads old ford escort got its window smashed by someone stealing the coat he'd left on the back seat- it was a cheap Tesco fleece, I shit you not.

If they've contacted you the overwhelming probability is that it was an accident. But even if it wasn't they're doing the right thing now, so I'd give them an enormous benefit of the doubt

Nah, im far too cynical. They have probably shit themselves at the mention of CCTV and that it's all over FB.

That's a lovely coat OP, glad you found it.

Just be breezy when you collect it, accidents can happen etc the thieving cunts

No offence Zebedee but I don't think anyone steals one flip flop. More likely it got lost?

Will be getting my permanent markers out tonight and sewing a button inside it lol

I'm late to this thread but my first assumption at soft play would be an accidental pick up in confusion especially if it's a place that does parties

Last year at my DCs party one child couldn't find their jumper, the only description I had was that it was navy and I found several that could have been the right one, I could easily have taken it for a few seconds to check with the child and someone might have thought it was stolen, easy thing to happen on a weekend at a soft play.

Good that you've got it back

Glad you got the coat back.... On a separate note I would stop using the phrase "throwing a Paddy".

Not got it back yet plus she’s deleted messages so not looking good upto now.

In other words..she's on MN..

My DS was in a small primary school. When he was in Y5, he and a younger boy (Y3 I think) had the same exact jacket which was slightly unusual as it was a brown colour. DS's coat still looked like new but he came home from after school club with the Y3 boys coat; frayed cuffs, dirty, discoloured patches.

Took it into reception the next morning and asked if my DS's coat had been returned. No, it hadn't. The receptionist then went and swapped it over after registration. There was no way the parents wouldn't have noticed the difference in the coat. I suspect they were pleased to get the next size up jacket and thought they could claim it as theirs.

Generalisation alert but I don't think the mn demographic includes many soft play cost stealers, she already owned up to a mistake via Facebook so wouldn't matter if she's also read this thread would it?

How do you know she's deleted the message, does it disappear from your inbox if she deletes at her end? Do you still have enough details to contact her again?

Well other half off to pick the coat up. Spoke to the lady at the pub and she had their number from a booking so rang her after my messages weren’t getting to her. Tagged her in post. Woman at pub said she’d spoken to me and arranged collection. I’d never spoken to her. She messaged me while pub lady was on the phone to partner. So knew she was lying. Got the normal car broken down/phone no charge etc. Finally got an address. Just waiting now for other half’s return as wasn’t confident going alone. She’s from a rough area so didn’t want to risk it. Hope it’s in one piece still lol

Pub lady may have mentioned we were going to report it as theft if it wasn’t returned.