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!)

In my younger days, a useless bf stole a pack of DoDo decongestants and a roll of bacofoil. Which explained why he was so useless.

A Bob Marley tape and some contracepiive pills. Got burgled. They left the boom box but nicked the audio tape (in the machine at the time). Very odd.

The parcel shelf from the boot of my car.....and a 1m long schooling whip! I'm assuming kids, one picked up the whip, one grabbed the shelf and off they went up the road whacking ten bells out of each other 🤷

Try eBay, we had some fake ones off there for £10 as all 4 of them were stolen. It was enough to spend incase they were stolen too and you couldn’t tell any difference.

A big patio sweeping brush recently.Had it for years and can't seem to find an exact replacement in size and stiffness of bristles .Had left it round the front of the house briefly.Really annoying.

Not me, but a friend had her handbag stolen off her trolley in Aldi. She soon had the whole shop shut down to find the thief and her bag....only to find it hooked to her trolley where she left it. She'd nicked someone else's trolley and left hers behind 😆😆

I once had a garden bench stolen from outside my front door. I wasn't particularly bothered as I didn't really use it. But I was very confused when it reappeared about a year later, back in the exact same spot like I'd imagined the whole thing.

That reminds me of the time I felt someone attempting to pickpocket me in London on one of the big sporting events when it was rammed.

Only problem for them was I had a stinking cold at the time and the only thing in my pocket was a really disgusting snotty hanky!

I really hope they got my cold because it was awful!

That happened a lot at my previous job. Customers put something in a trolley and walk off with it. Or get customers asking where their trolley is.

I remember one lady pushing another customer's trolley and noticed there was a bag of dry dog food in there. I knew she is allergic to dogs. I saw her trolley on the corner of the milk/butter chiller.

Someone smashed my car window and rooted through detritus when I was a student. Deliberately left the "now" pop compilation CDs... I felt it was a judgemental slight ..

I had a boiler stolen from my house. We picked up our keys at 9am, went to start moving in at around 10.30 and no boiler. It had been cut out, sealed off properly. Basically someone had taken out a newly fitted bathroom window, removed the boiler and then put the window back. Leaving footprints, finger prints all over the downstairs bathroom and window next to the utility room.

It was a rental, recently refitted. The landlord and Police suspected the plumbers that had done the refit. Sure enough they were involved in a string of similar robberies, selling probably the same boiler more than once! I was surprised they thought they could get away with it really.

No, but we were in Indonesia! Staying at the tip of Sulawesi, went out diving for the day, came back, no toothbrushes. Spoke to manager, she apologised for the macaques and gave us each a brand new toothbrush 😆

Damn that Indonesian wildlife!

Many years ago at my mum's house she had a medium size tree (10 metres) fall down on her land and next to a public footpath but a fair way from the road.

Any someone came along, cut it with a chainsaw at the base and then nicked the rest of it. Whilst it saved us a tree surgeon job, we were more puzzled about how they managed to transport that much wood away.

When I was in primary school, someone in my class took my keyring off my bag. My friend saw her do it, but she wouldn’t give it back. I haven’t forgotten about it in all these years 😂

Foxes used to regularly steal our washing off the line. I don't hang it out anymore because of them. Tumble dry even in summer.

I had a window smashed on my old banger of a car just to steal 20p off the floor years ago.

And not stealing, but my weirdest one was someone (definitely human) breaking into our garden and taking a shit on the grass. Just caught the edge of their arm on the ring doorbell as they walked up the side of the house, but not enough on camera to FB shame.

a 17ft long carpet being stored in our garage was stolen

A whole months supply of my colostomy bags :)

This is going to sound made up but it’s true. One Christmas a cleaner helped herself to a stollen cake someone had given me. Very weird but quite funny.

I once looked out of my front window to spot a woman walking away with a plant she had pulled up from my garden.

A travel book. On the plane. I left my guide book on the seat, went to the loo and it was gone.

So I had to do my trip without my guide book.

The bastards.

Printer toner, but not the printer 🤔

Foxes stole my Birkenstocks that I'd worn in the back garden, left outside and forgot. I found one up the road chewed to bits. Someone broke into my car & stole a load of vintage medicine bottles that had weird old fashioned compounds in them & vintage glass hypodermic needles. I'd cleared them out of my hoarder mum's house & was researching how to dispose of them safely. It's usually substance abusers that do petty crime like that round here so I dread to think of the outcome.

Back, back, back in the olden days my granny's friend came to visit. Her baby had a dirty nappy and my granny wrapped it up for her in a sheet of newspaper.
Someone helped themselves to this parcel on the bus. 70 years later my granny would still chortle at the thought of this thief spotting a mystery parcel, sneaking off with it and then unwrapping a dirty nappy.

Kids broke into my car one week and stole the knob off my car radio (probably trying and failing to take the stereo). I parked in the same place the following week (no choice!) having had the window repaired. They broke in again and stole a packet of chocolate biscuits off the passenger seat.