to think that karma won yesterday

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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.

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

Put a 'For Sale' sign on it too - that usually helps things be stolen even more quickly.

The only time I've ever had a car window broken was outside my parents' house when I was visiting them. It was an old banger and there was nothing in it except the radio, which the thieves obviously thought was worth the risk, for some weird reason. It didn't work. Having to replace the window was annoying, but almost worth the schadenfreude.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

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

Put a 'For Sale' sign on it too - that usually helps things be stolen even more quickly.

Will do!

I can’t believe what people take.

I left a Tesco bag in my front porch briefly. Whoever it was who took it would of seen a neatly packed bag of milk, eggs, shortbread biscuits, Kipling slices and a box of cereal. Sadly they would of soon realised that it was a bag of recycling and the weight of the bag was caused by bagged food waste at the bottom

I also caught someone stealing my milk from my front porch. I went out and asked him to return it and he had the cheek to say ‘don’t worry about other people who need to eat and drink’. I replied ‘I do worry and that’s exactly why I’ve paid for milk for my family to eat and drink’

Love this thread just the laugh i needed! Karma is a thing

When I was a kid we had our garage broken into. They stole my bike. It had a buckled wheel and a faulty break. I hope they had an accident!

I had a similar experience years ago. On my way home from work one day I had my purse stolen from my shopping bag. It was absolutely bulging and I'm sure the scumbag who stole it was excited at the prospect of lots of money, except the purse didn't contain money, it was stuffed full with dried peas one of my colleagues had given me for my allotment.

We saw a man struggling to push a washing machine in a wheel barrow down a street in the centre of town. About 20 minutes later a man was running about frantically asking everyone if we'd seen his stolen washing machine. I never found out if he caught up with the thief.

@twoshedsjackson

I thought I'd seen that CCTV footage, but couldn't fine it anywhere, but I did find this little gem instead

www.unilad.co.uk/life/guy-throws-brick-at-car-window-it-bounces-back-and-hits-him-in-face/

Years ago there was a gang going around stealing from the very rural villages where I live. My friend got all her tack stolen from the shed in her yard.

I was woken in the small hours by the sound of my garage door being opened furtively, the most almighty kerfuffle and then the sound of a van being driven off at speed.

All my cockerels used to roost in my garage at night. Yes, I kept my horse's tack in there, but it was protected by four feisty cocks who would start up crowing whenever the door opened. They could be quite aggressive too. I almost felt sorry for the gang...

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

I asked if I could help them and they said they presumed it was rubbish as it had been left outside. It was quite obviously new, and they quite obviously intended to take the rest, I gave them a right bollocking, think I scared my neighbour. Cheeky fuckers

We have regular scrap men who pull that excuse - claiming they assume that any metal visible from the end of your property is scrap left out for them to kindly rid you of. Along with rusty, bent old ironing board stands and wrecked old toys, they've also taken a child's brand new double garden swing and grab any abandoned Asda trolleys that lazy people have walked home with, before Asda's own collectors can get there.

Neighbour had this happen when they had an old washing machine waiting to be collected. The scrap men took a fairly new, extremely heavy cast iron table and chairs too.

I also caught someone stealing my milk from my front porch. I went out and asked him to return it and he had the cheek to say ‘don’t worry about other people who need to eat and drink’. I replied ‘I do worry and that’s exactly why I’ve paid for milk for my family to eat and drink’

There really are some people out there who don't actually see others as people too, aren't there? Of course their wants and selfishness should override your family's needs, because you simply don't register as of any importance at all

Neighbour had this happen when they had an old washing machine waiting to be collected. The scrap men took a fairly new, extremely heavy cast iron table and chairs too.

Not that it really makes any difference, but it seems even worse when you might have spent hundreds on something nice and they'll happily steal it from you to get themselves a fiver for 'scrap'. You wonder if people like this would go to Paris, gaze at the Eiffel Tower and be instinctively calculating a scrap value for it rather than admiring it for what it is like the other tourists.

Probably hypocritically, I've called them out once, when I had a really heavy, battered old metal cupboard that I had to clear from a garage I was vacating, but any other scrap metal I have, I just take it to the tip myself now, rather than letting them have it and validating their practices.

In regards to scrap metal, I have a heavy iron umbrella stand in my back garden. We were tidying up the garden so moved it near the gate down the side of the house.

I was home that day, don't know why they didn't notice my car parked right in front on the house. Two guys drove along, saw the umbrella stand on the other side of the gate so stopped their car and tried to lift this heavy stand over the 6ft fence. There was an almighty bang and then they quickly left sans umbrella stand.

I watched it all from the window, didn't even have to question them as I knew they wouldn't be able to lift it. Still the cheek of them to try and take something when I was home in the middle of the day.

I have a empty amazon box. Thinking of filling it full of used/full dog poo bags , resealing it with a fake returns label and leaving it on doorstep 😂

We were out with the dogs one time when a bloke jumped out from behind some bushes and flashed us. He said "Come and see what I've got in my hand". Vera just said, If you can get it in one hand you're no use to me. I'm used to better" and we just kept walking.

My late MIL did similar when she received a nuisance phone call from someone saying "Guess what my girlfriend is doing to me right now". She said "well she can't be much good if you're able to talk on the phone while she's doing it!"

're car batteries and metal no longer wanted, try a scrap metal guy, we have one locally pays very little but takes the stuff away and you get a few quid.

I worked on the checkout at B&Q, this guy was practically running though buying a new bath, asked him why the hurry. He said he'd taken the old bath out to redo the plumbing, left it in the front garden and some "b***d" took it. Really silly thing to do around here

He said he'd taken the old bath out to redo the plumbing, left it in the front garden and some "b*d" took it. Really silly thing to do around here

Is there something in UK law or custom that lets people think it's acceptable to go onto private property and take whatever they fancy there?

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll
You’re very right. It shocked me that he felt he had some sort of entitlement to take it and he totally missed the irony in his stupid comment.

I once got home from work, reversed on to the drive and had a scrap metal man driving by at that very moment stop and ask if I wanted to sell my car - his implications being explicit, considering that he was in a big truck saying 'Scrap Metal' on it.

He actually seemed really surprised that I didn't want to, right there on the spot, give him my old but perfectly decent, functional, road-legal car for £50 (or whatever he would have deigned to offer) and then not be able to get to work or do a load of other everyday tasks the next day.

I don't know if it's pure entitlement or sheer stupidity that makes some people see what they want and not comprehened that the person it currently belongs to might actually want to have a say in keeping it.

Rat bedding for thieving rats

There's been a perfectly serviceable wooden crate left outside my back gate for about a year now - nobody's interested in the thing

Mind you, outside their back gates this week, various other neighbours have left a very good quality bed frame, a large pile of sand, a chimenea and an electric cooker. They are all still there too.