TO WANT TO KILL THE SCUM!!

[SmileCheese]

Who has stolen my husbands wallet this evening!

Over £150 in cash gone, payments made via contactless on both cards before he could cancel them, and numerous other important cards such as his licence and sentimental bits and pieces probably dumped in a bush somewhere.

Fortunately there is CCTV of him taking the wallet although I'm doubtful it will come to much even if they can identify the arsehole.

I know I'm not unreasonable but I honestly have never felt rage like it and I could just do with a sympathetic ear to listen to me vent. I just want to find them and do unspeakable things to them and I'm not a violent person in the slightest.

I had a horrible experience returning a wallet I found. It was in the lobby of my building, so I picked it up and checked for ID but the address was for a town miles away. I had assumed they lived in the building. I look up his surname and address on BT to get a phone number, called it and it was his parents house so he had moved. They gave me his flat number and I popped down to give it to him. He then had a proper go at me saying he had £200 in that wallet so where was it. He was really horrible. I'd found it and hadn't taken anything; I just wanted to reunite him with it because it had NHS ID in it, all his cards, some folded up bits of paper which I assume were bits of paper he wanted to keep! And the thanks I got was a man twice my size yelling at me and calling me a thief.

Eurgh sorry to hear this, I was mugged and it was more the thought of someone else having my stuff than me not having it anymore that enraged me. Did he have housekeys in his wallet?

Some people are junk. OP, it's happened to us all I expect, inevitably in the runup to Xmas. Pickpockets target the vulnerable - the elderly, ladies with children, children, and people having fun.

I've been robbed of my purse countless times, and twice of my Xmas presents. On the upside, a mate of mine was done, gave evidence in court, and much to the robber's surprise he was sent down.

I wish the police were a bit less useless.

What is the world coming too. Why can’t people work hard to get what they want rather than trying to steal from others. I though I lived in a nice area but In the last ten days alone, we have had two attempted ram raids of local shops and tonight,,there was an attempted car jacking in the next street to where I live

Yeah some people are scum. Years ago my DS had to have an emergency operation. It was touch and go and he was in hospital for a while. Obviously I stayed with him. Because he was so poorly he was in a single room. This was a children's ward so the doors were secure and you had to be a parent to get in.

One day I nipped to the loo, just outside in the corridor. I left my bag behind in the room, hidden, not in plain sight. I reckon I was two minutes tops. I came back and my bag had been stolen.

I still can't get over one of the other parents must have gone in and searched through the room of a sick child to find the bag. Thankfully he was asleep so never knew anything about it.

Why can’t people work hard to get what they want rather than trying to steal from others

Who knows, like another poster said it does make you wonder why we bother doing things by the book.

Fortunately no car keys in the wallet. Its also been lovely to read your stories of good Samaritans although I'm sorry to hear your attempt to return a wallet didn't go well Lulu.

I had my purse stolen a few months back, I never carry cash and had £100 that day to pay the cattery fees. I was so upset, and still think about it. I work hard for my money, it was mine. We were also burgled during the night a few years back and even now it has a mark left on us. It's a wretched awful feeling xx

I had my phone stolen out of the pocket on my wheelchair (i was still in my wheelchair) having coffee and cake with a friend in Birmingham. I never recovered my phone but immediately blocked it. It left me very very vulnerable for a few days with no means of calling for help if I needed to.

My cousin stole my purse when we were all in my grans house waiting for her to pas away.

I lost all my money, about £100. Driver's license and other cards, pictures etc..

I never got my purse back and I can't afford replacements. I feel your anger 🤬

My ds2 ( aged 15 at the time) was mugged by 4 kids in the summer. Honestly the rage I felt was like nothing I'd experienced before. Scum bags

Sorry to hear about this OP, I hope you'll be refunded soon.

I have twice found bank cards lying on the pavement and handed them in at the respective banks.

My bag was stolen once, from a church. I got it back minus the wallet as the bag had been thrown over the wall of a neighbour who kindly returned it. Another time, my purse was taken from my bag in a restaurant. I lost some cash so have carried little cash ever since, and usually only one card. I get a text for every transaction over £25 so keep an eye on things that way.

More recently, someone stole my takeaway coffee in a London park. I put it down behind me, turned my back for a moment and it was gone!

If it isn't red hot or nailed down, you have to sit on it. Well the coffee was hot, but not that hot!

May be mumsnetters can help find him if there is CCTV of the thief - publicity often helps in these cases.

For others do take copies of any precious things in your wallet. Precious family photos - take a picture of them tonight on your moble and store them on your computer or the cloud. Even copies of membership cards can be useful to have in case of a theft.

I picked up someone's wallet on a train - he got off and left it. I carried on to London and took it to him at a hotel the next day off Kensington High St as I was near by and so was he that day. He was very grateful although had cancelled his cards anyway to be on the safe side. My son dropped his once at his sister's graduation in the street and someone found it and posted it to him. People are mostly very good.

So annoying.

My husband was working in New York earlier this year. His bag was stolen from his car. It had his wallet, lap top, iPad, Bose headphones, AirPods, car keys (uk), house keys, brand new personalised Raybans and passport in it.

So much inconvenience caused by a mindless act.

I had a horrible experience returning a wallet I found. It was in the lobby of my building, so I picked it up and checked for ID but the address was for a town miles away. I had assumed they lived in the building. I look up his surname and address on BT to get a phone number, called it and it was his parents house so he had moved. They gave me his flat number and I popped down to give it to him. He then had a proper go at me saying he had £200 in that wallet so where was it. He was really horrible. I'd found it and hadn't taken anything; I just wanted to reunite him with it because it had NHS ID in it, all his cards, some folded up bits of paper which I assume were bits of paper he wanted to keep! And the thanks I got was a man twice my size yelling at me and calling me a thief.

What an idiot! Did he really think the person who’d nicked it would merrily return it minus the money? Dumbass!

I wish the police were a bit less useless.

And I wish that the general public would finally understand that the police do not decide to prosecute. CPS do. Believe me, most police officers are just as frustrated when they’ve done their job properly, gathered evidence, spent ages looking at grainy CCTV footage, yet CPS won’t proceed.

Hopefully there’s also store cctv too of the twats rinsing off the contactless!

As they have a lot of his details from his cards and license, he might want to monitor his credit reports closely in the coming months in case they try and open anything in his name. A CIFAS registration is something to consider as it means new credit accounts will need additional verification.

Make sure his cards are cancelled and reissued with a new number.

I once found a woman’s purse which included her driving license, so I had her address. I just posted everything back to her. This was at a park so there wasn’t anywhere I could have handed it into, just seemed like the logical thing to do!

DH once visited his parents in his home town as a surprise whilst away at uni and walked into the house whilst his parents were out, only to find scum making a run for it after stealing thousands of pounds worth of MILs jewellery and other bits. This was years ago before I knew him, but it’s affected him and his parents a lot even now. He triple checks all our locks every night (we have multiple which was his number one priority when moving) and freaks out if hearing anything dodgy outside. Some people are awful

I feel for you, that's awful. I've had my purse taken twice, once in Cardiff Bay when I didn't realise I'd dropped it under my chair; I was a very poor student at the time and it was all the money I had for the weekend.

The other one was from the bottom of my rucksack which was in a private NHS hospital office when I was just 3 feet away in the facing office but hadn't locked the door. Our CCTV footage, dodgy as it was, however, combined with reports from other local businesses meant the culprit was caught within a couple of hours, and as soon as I realised my cards were gone I cancelled them. I do have contactless but I'm pretty ambivalent about it for lots of reasons. I also have a couple of non-bank cards, one is Revolut and the other is Monese, which I often use for daily transactions in shops now. I keep a small amount of money on each.

In contrast, I lost my purse in Nottingham as a student and it was handed in at the police station, sans cash (not that I'd had much in it, but again, I was a poor student at the time) but with cards; I also had PC World ring me once when my purse was found in their car park and someone handed it in - every penny and every card was there (this was in the same town as the hospital, but a different bit), and in Japan, people in general were SO honest that if you dropped anything you could be pretty sure of getting it back. Petty crime was really rare compared to the UK. (We'll gloss over the Yakuza, though one of my theories was that Japan is SO organised as a society it even applies to the crime world...)

Would your house insurance cover any of the costs for you, after the excess? I'm thinking maybe at least paying for your husband to get a new driving licence copy.

I left my purse in the toilets at Sainsburys some months back, with credit card, debit card, driving licence, (with my full address on,) nectar card, several store cards, photos of DC, train tickets for a trip to London 2 days later, house key, (I know eejit!) a pair of gold earrings (worth about £70,) and around £80 in cash.

I could have cried! I drove back to the store and got back there about 40 minutes after I left it there.

Long story short, it had been handed in, and was all completely intact, with not a THING missing. Apparently a 'young mum' had handed it in. When they said this, I remember the young woman and her toddler coming towards me to the toilets, and I opened the door to let her and her little girl in and she smiled and thanked me. So it must have been her!!!

I wish I could have known/found out who she was so I could have thanked her and bought a little gift for her and her little girl. But I never did find out. I posted a thank you on twitter and facebook, but she never surfaced.

Sorry no help @SmileCheese but I just wanted to share this, to let you know not all people are rotten!

Hope the thieving twonk who stole your DH's wallet is caught, and your DH gets everything back. SURELY there has to be some CCTV where he/she used the contactless card?!

(footnote! I no longer keep my house key in my wallet!)

He'll have no luck with it.
If he buys a shirt he will rip a hole in it or get an iron burn on it within the first couple of wears. If he buys a sandwich he will get food poisoning. If he buys drugs they will be cut with talc and rat poison. If he buys a match ticket his team will get thrashed and he will find himself in the midst of a throng of gloating opposition fans on the way home who chuck a pint of piss over him, and then he will miss the last bus home.
Etc etc.
Go on, enjoy laying the most fantastic curse you can think of on him. It's very therapeutic.
Even if it doesn't work, he'll always be a scumbag. Every time he looks in the mirror he's looking at a scumbag and most of the people he knows know that he is a scumbag, even if they are scumbags themselves. He'll die in a shit flat some day with no real friends and- unlike with nice but unfortunate people who die in shit flats with no friends- nobody will think it's a pity.

(Or if you think this is too bitter and horrible then maybe a lovely magic unicorn of a situation will ensue whereby this theft will be the one that triggers an epiphany and start him on the road that leads to him becoming a fab person and getting an MBE for services to orphaned kittens or whatever, hurrah etc).

@powershowerforanhour that made me laugh - the bloke who stole my purse from the hospital actually was arrested and put inside for a little bit (he had previous); at the time one of the things the police were concentrating on in our area was criminal rehab, and while I didn't see the point of meeting the culprit, which was offered, I was happy to receive a letter saying he was very sorry and while inside he'd managed to do some catering training courses.

If I remember rightly when he came out he did actually go and get a job and got back on the straight and narrow. (We were all very taken by the very personable young plain clothes copper who came to take my statement. We worked in a part of the hospital where it was mainly women. I was delighted to encounter a copper who was normal height, and not all that much taller than me. Most of the ones I've met have all been over 6 foot...)

Sorry OP. I feel the same about the shitty woman who stole my phone recently.

Yet over here a bloke who took an abandoned bicycle (bike share company went bust) as his personal transportation got a choice of either 6 months in gaol or the equivalent of UKP 3,800.

Now fines or gaol time like that in the UK and we might see petty theft rate decrease.

Someone posted DD3's wallet home when she left it behind on a bus. She was miserable to lose it, canceled her cards, etc., and was left with no ID. Then the mysterious envelope showed up and there is was, all contents present and accounted for, but no forwarding address or note accompanying it.

You never know - it might show up again.

I would be fuming too, I do hope someone finds the wallet and posts it back so you at least get the ID back. I did find a young woman's driving licence before and I found her on Facebook and asked if she wanted it posted to the address on the licence. She replied thanking me and giving me a friend's address to post to so her mum didn't find out she'd lost it

I've found numerous things: like a gold bracelet in a dodgy part of town - the police were amazed someone handed it in; an army warrant card - I thought he'd get in big trouble so got it back promptly; a BBC pass - I rang up their HR department and she rang me back to reunite her with it; a lap top and university thesis - that was more tricky as the thesis didn't have his name on: luckily the computer wasn't password protected, so I managed to send him an email. He was on the train to see his son but was so thrilled it turned up, he offered to buy me a coffee. I thought that would be a bit weird but dropped it off at his local university where he worked.

I'd like to think I somehow paid forward as recently someone returned my phone when I was on holiday abroad.