Strangest thing you've had stolen from you?

[Newdress93]

Am really annoyed that someone has probably stolen the center cap off my car wheel , have looked on Ebay for a replacement, none fit, contact the main dealer - £50 to replace. £50! Dealer has assured me there is NO OTHER COMPATIBLE wheel cap, so will likely just suck it up and pay which is the last thing we need this month.

What other weird things have people had stolen? (Call me naïve but I thought the world had moved on from stealing other peoples things!)

Oh gosh I just remembered, I had an old beater car that I couldn’t lock. Someone stole my scraggly and sad artificial Christmas tree from the back seat! I remember cursing their Christmas’s for all eternity.

Years later I was mentioning to coworkers that I hadn’t bought a new on since the theft and one offered me their old one. It was the same scraggly tree! Well not the same one as I had relocated since the theft… but the same model. We had a laugh as I jokingly accused him 😁

I live in an apartment by the canal and have a lovely, huge patio space next to the canal path. I have tubs of plants with ornamental flamingos sticking out of them. I was once sat outside sunbathing and a man was walking down the canal path, dont think he saw me, and he suddenly reached through the railings and yanked a flamingo out of one flower pot and threw it in the canal. I was gobsmacked! It was so unecessary!

Food waste bin. You can pick them up for free from local council office 🤷‍♀️

Someone stole my doormat once. I’d only had it a week or two, it was outside the front door (as doormats are). It was about 2pm in the afternoon; I heard someone come through the gate and waited for a knock on the door but it never came so I went to see if anyone was there, and the doormat had gone. Just…why?

We ran pubs for about 20yrs and had alsorts nicked. A toilet was the most bizarre though.

The planters out the front of my house, the ones attached to my actual house. All caught on cctv.

As a kid my parents car was broken into. Early 90s. I had left my ballet box in the boot. It was a hard sort of cardboard box, with a ballerina on the front and my leotard and shoes inside. Nothing else was stolen (radio etc was what was normal to steal back then). Wtf did they take a small child’s dance uniform.

Mÿ Dyson Hoover. Kept looking for it, asked dh to check the house incase I was overlooking it. Asked family if they'd borrowed it....suddenly remembered I'd washed the filters and parts were on the back step drying (rest was just in the doorway). Our son was playing in back street with friends so it was a purely opportunist theft .
Reported to local police so could claim on insurance. Policeman said he'd had a wood/metal framed bench, which was screwed into the concrete, stolen from secure back garden with 7ft fences.

A mobile phone. Now before you say that's not all that unusual - it was stolen from the person who gifted it to me.
Long story short, she found out AFTER gifting it to me that it was actually stolen, hence the extremely low price, and panicked. Came to visit me, waited for me to use the bathroom, grabbed it and bolted.

My DFs car was stolen. Kids would nick a car, drive to the next village, nick another....
Police found it and said they were sorry but it wasn't in great shape. Dad went to collect and apart from 1 keyed mark in the dashboard it was in exactly the same condition as it was when stolen! He didn't tell the police that when they were pointing out the damage though!

This isn't a strange thing to have stolen - in fact it is a logical thing but I'll mention it because it happened for such a long time.

Every Sunday night we would have one bottle of milk(out of five) stolen and a pizza box left in our privet hedge. So someone walking home from the pub very late (after midnight) with a takeaway would have finished it by the time they got to our house, then take the milk to quench their thirst and leave their rubbish.

We told the milkman to cancel our order as we would buy from supermarket instead. Then in addition to still getting the empty pizza box every week, because there was no milk, our wheelie bin would be tipped over.

After this had been going on a while, everyone on the road would have their bins tipped over. You could hear bins going over for ages every Sunday night and anyone who challenged this person would have a fruitless chase on their hands as he was quick.

Of course the police caught the person eventually as it took ages to tip every bin over and he was caught in the act. He was walking home from the pub with someone else's milk that he'd picked up along the road.

Can't believe that it went on for so long before the police actually decided to act.

It turned out to be the son of our ex milkman who lived just a few hundred yards further up the road - he'd lived in our house as a child.

I stupidly left a window open in my car and my satnav was nicked. It didn't break my heart as it was about 10 years old and had never been updated, in fact if anyone was stupid enough to buy it off the thief they would have regretted it instantly. However, the thieves ignored all my CDs - I didn't quite know whether to be pleased or offended at the fact that they obviously despised my music tastes.

This exact thing happened to my grandparents, was it in Pateley Bridge ? They had special York stone stolen from their patio, my grandpa said it was from York Abbey. It was stolen whilst they went out for a walk back in the late 90s or early 2000s I guess .

No not PB but not a million miles away. A lot of our town has York stone pavements and apparently they’ve been coated in some sort of smart water in case of theft.

In Thailand over 20 years ago both me and my friend had our flip flops stolen from where we were staying. They were the only footwear we had so we ended up walking barefoot through the dirty streets of Bangkok to the market to buy some more.

My ceramic pumpkin bowl at Halloween 🤨

Not so much the theft of the bowl that pissed me off - I chose to use it instead of a cheap, plastic pumpkin, but the fact that it was a limited edition M&S bowl that I won’t be able to replace now 🫠🫠🫠🫠

Ripped t-shirt that would have been too small for the thief.
Along with a negligee (never worn) that she'd given me for Christmas.

A lovely shopping bag out of my trolley in the shop.
Milk delivery. Regularly missing milk. Neighbour's orange juice used to disappear as well.

Woman stole my perfume and shampoo from my bed room.
This woman who my first boyfriend worked with used to drive him to work. She definitely had a crush on him, and was definitely not all there. One day she was at ours and she kept asking me about my hair and make up. I told her what I used and thought nothing of it. She needed the loo but said she was claustrophobic, so I let her go through our room to the big bathroom. The next day my shampoo and perfume were gone along with my skin tint. I told boyfriend I thought she had stolen them. He said I was being insane and I had probably misplaced them. Next morning he gets in her car and instantly knew she had nicked them because she smelled like me. Exactly like me. He stopped getting lifts form her because he was a bit freaked out, and a few weeks later she got fired for yelling at their boss because he wouldn’t give her the day off to see the killers. She would have absolutely skinned me and wore my skin if she had the chance.

I had my wheelchair stolen while flying from the UK to Spain. It was the first time we'd flown since I became disabled, and we asked for advice at the airport as to how we should proceed. We were told to check my wheelchair in, and use an airport one from check-in to the plane. When we arrived, we waited for it to come through on the conveyor belt, our suitcase arrived, but no wheelchair. Eventually everyone else's luggage had been and gone, and with no sign of my wheelchair, the signs at the conveyor belt changed for a different flight, so we went and asked what we should do at the Help Desk. It was suggested that it might come in on the next flight, so we waited for that, but no sign of my wheelchair, and we still had a 2 hour drive to get to our accommodation, so eventually we were told that we could borrow one of the airport wheelchairs, which don't fold up, and as we'd only ordered a small hire car, we then had to pay for a larger vehicle, and wait for it to be ready for us. My wheelchair was made specifically to fit me, so this was far from ideal, but there was no other choice. The airport promised faithfully that they would deliver it to us when it arrived, but it was never seen again!! I did of course put in a letter of complaint, and received a telephone call from the CEO of the company we flew with, who made abject apologies, sent me a bouquet of flowers, and paid the excess on my claim for a replacement wheelchair through my travel insurance, but the whole thing was a nightmare from start to finish. Needless to say, I now don't let my wheelchair out of my sight, travel out to the plane in it, and then my DH watches it being loaded, before joining me in the plane.

Someone once stole a large snowman from our front garden! It was found further down the road, back in one piece and complete with DCs hat and scarf!

My car was stolen in the early 90s. I found it abandoned the next day. I had a couple of veg crates of music tapes in it. They took the ones they liked and left the rest.

My sister had her clothes, shoes (& food) stolen by her tenant/lodger. She saw her out wearing them but the girl denied they were my sister's. She got a lock put on her bedroom door, I'd have just evicted her.

A pack of my monthly contact lenses. Absolutely no use to 99.99% of the population who don’t have my terrible eyesight.

Jesus!! You win.