to think that karma won yesterday

[redlockscelt]

This will no doubt out me if you know me but never mind.

We live in one of a pair of farm cottages down a small lane on the way to another village.
Our lovely neighbours shared their ring doorbell footage with me yesterday as we were the targets of the theft. We'd had a large, awkward, cumbersome package delivery which was (as instructed) left in the side yard and was visible from the lane. Two men, older and not that fit, came passed in a car and stopped to look at the package and with great difficultly manhandled it into the back of the car, having to shove the seats down and go to some effort putting it in.

If only we had access to cctv at the other end to see their faces when they opened their spoils to discover that they had approx 40kg of hay

Annoying for us of course but they got what they deserved I reckon.

@ShebaShimmyShake

I know of someone whose bag was snatched from her by a jogger as she walked her dogs. Shame it had nothing in it but full dog poo baggies, which she was planning to dispose of in the dedicated dog mess bin at the entrance to the park...

I've always hoped that this happened. Karma

We moved house, final load, a few bin bags destined for the tip were in the back of our old van, we went to the pub, came back to car park van door open, all the bags gone. Saved us a trip to the tip. I have a lovely cordless mower and live a rather bad area. If i have to stop mowing the front part way through I take the mower into the alley and lock the gate, don't want to risk it.

Lol. Classic.

@mumsnut

What a great idea! I’m going to save all my Amazon boxes and fill them with stuff I need to take to the dump and leave one out every other day... 🤣

There is a legal doctrine called "assumption of risk"

Is that the same as "volenti non fit injuria" @MissConductUS?

I did my paralegal qualification so long ago that Latin was barely dead and still in use in law.

If anyone wants more store es about people doing stupid things, getting injured then suing the place they got hurt, you need to Google "Darwin awards". There are some really funny ones in there and a lot of WTF ones as well.

@LakieLady

There is a legal doctrine called "assumption of risk"

Is that the same as "volenti non fit injuria" @MissConductUS?

I did my paralegal qualification so long ago that Latin was barely dead and still in use in law.

I've just given it a bit of research (I am not a lawyer) and yes, assumption of risk is the American legal term for volenti non fit injuria.

@Mumsnut

H’mmm

I have an old tv to dispose of

If I find an imposing box and some labels
And leave it under my doormat , will someone nick it so you think,

Fabulous idea! I have some broken electrical stuff to get rid of.

When I finished university I was getting rid of a load of old lecture notes. I put them in an old tatty suitcase I no longer wanted to be taken to be recycled. I struggled to get the suitcase out the front door as it was very heavy. I then decided to wait till one of my friends got home to help me get it into the car. By the time we came to move it it was gone. Still makes me giggle that some thief had lugged that away just to find my maths notes.

@BunsyGirl

We had a similar incident - a pair of plain black kids jogging bottoms were delivered by Next (worth about £8). We then had another delivery via Amazon. The Amazon delivery person stole the Next parcel - it was caught on our Ring doorbell. Amazon were fantastic and took it very seriously. They ensured us that the thief would no longer be working for them and it would be reported to the police. They also refunded us the cost of the stolen parcel and sent us a case of wine to apologise. Hope the thief thought it was worth losing his job over a pair of kids jogging bottoms!

Bloody hell! If you can't trust a courier with parcels that's saying a lot!

Sat at my desk on a routine conference call a few years ago sucking a boiled sweet. Was asked something so popped the sweet back in its clear wrapper and twisted the sides thinking i will finish it after the call, but forgot and left the office for the day. We had a guy who routinely liked to help himself to any biccies and the like that got left on the cabinets and desks, he always stayed late I'm sure for this reason! Yep, the followin morning my boiled sweet had gone off my desk. Dined out on this story a few times now, still makes me smile

There was a story in the news, last year I think, about a delivery driver who stole someone’s dog! The dog went missing out of the garden the exact same time that the drivers tracker put him there and he was found with the dog. Little bastard. He lost his job as well.

I was just watching the local news on telly while we had dinner tonight. They ran a story about a couple in New Jersey who were arrested for stealing potted plants and flowers from people's front yards at night.

Video recordings of several of the thefts were posted on social media and someone recognized them and called the police. When the police arrived they had all of the pots lined up in their front yard.

I'll post a link if I can find one.

Maybe the police will contact them and ask for their feed back on the theft .

a friend of mine was house sitting and the dog died. Didn't know what to do with poor doggo so she put it in a suitcase to bring to vet, somebody snatched it and ran while she was on the street. Love to have seen their face when they found a deceased doggo

1lb squid, that’s brilliant 🤣

I'm a horrible person I laughed at that @FloraButterCookie !

Definitely Karma but Amazon do leave deliveries etc in view my daughter had a delivery put in her rubbish collection box luckily she had the sense to look in there before him date!

@maudlucy. I hope you mentioned to him that someone had pinched your (sucked) sweet?

This guy went to extremes to catch out doorstep thieves (makes the revenge envelope filled with glitter sometimes suggested on MN look tame )
www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-46604625

Not a karma one but a theft nonetheless, I ordered my partner a jacket from Superdry online, it was too small so sent it back via our local corner shop only to receive a dirty, scruffy old sweatshirt back with a note saying “sorry we don’t sell this item” someone had swapped the jacket for this during its journey, thankfully Superdry believed me and sent a new jacket

That’s brilliant. On the other side, Hermes left a parcel on my front door mat on Friday, I was on holiday until Monday!
I don’t have a front garden but must live in quite a safe area as it was still there when I got home

@ginghamtablecloths

Someone stole a wooden pallet from my drive - worth about £4 at the time. They left behind some mesh ( the type you put on a wall arch before you plaster) which luckily was soft enough to fold up and put in the bin. Cheeky sods.

I'm trying to get rid of a pallet. I might try leaving it outside rather than work up the energy to take it to the tip

As a child we would regularly get our milk stolen off our doorstep. We thought it was next door neighbour. My dad carfully took the top off a bottle of milk and added a cup of salt and resealed.He got up really early and replaced milk delivery. Funnily enough our milk never went missing again.........I would have loved to have seen their faces.

As a child we would regularly get our milk stolen off our doorstep. We thought it was next door neighbour. My dad carfully took the top off a bottle of milk and added a cup of salt and resealed.He got up really early and replaced milk delivery. Funnily enough our milk never went missing again.........I would have loved to have seen their faces.

Haha - they were lucky he only used salt. If I'd been him, I would have been tempted to mention to the neighbour that I'd had problems with birds or wild animals stealing or pushing away the milk to drink, so I found a simple solution to teach them as "they're only dumb animals who obviously don't know any better - I only have to do it occasionally now and I think they've got the message" - all completely innocently, of course