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!)

Creepybookworm · 29/04/2025 11:30

2 knives from my knife block....left the others. Same burglars stole all the meat from freezer and my laundry basket...but not the lid. Perhaps to transport the loot.

I got burgled and the fucker took 4 pillowcases off the bed. The cops said it was to carry the loot away. They stole my old Zenit camera, but left all the lenses and equipment, the insurance assessor was great, he said it was worth more than my little digital camera and camcorder together.

A tent, & everything in it, at a festival, in broad daylight

My iPod that I bought from the Sony centre in Tokyo - someone lifted it from my bag on the Tube. Gutted as it had much sentimental value to me as that was a holiday of a lifetime!

Did they take the toner out of the printer, or a spare one? If it was out of the printer, they'd end up covered with the stuff. It's messy enough when you're changing the cartridge officially.

Friend bought a new tv and put the old one by her front door, as was taking to the tip. Someone took it, thinking it was working. No it was not!

A pair of jeans I bought from Jags in Hull. Took them off my washing line then threw them back over the garden wall a few days later !

My late mum had my grandad's military cross stolen from her by an electrician doing some work on her flat. That's the highest medal a non officer soldier can get which he got from being in the Somme from start to finish . The electrician said o can I have a look at it please and mustve watched her put it away because we noticed a few weeks later that it a gone .

When my lodger moved out, she stole one of my spatulas. It was £1 from Poundland but it was amazing at getting all the cake batter out of the bowl.

Years ago my friend's car was stolen and the thieves threw all her CDs into a hedge. The police returned them to her in a carrier bag. She was more upset about the slur on her musical tastes than she was about the loss of her car.

The brakes off my bike- only realised as I tried to stop- they’d left the levers and done it while it was locked up in the shed. Scary moment for me and the car coming the other way😱

A garden wheelie bin, twice!

It was the spare ones next to the printer. Took quite a lot of them too.

A loo brush.

It was new (so no faecal matter!). Friend half inched it off the table while I was putting my shopping away. Didn't realise until later.

When I asked her to return it she paypalled me 59p!

Cheeky mare, it was £3.99.

I got my money in the end. We're still friends but she's not been in my house since.

Are you my friend!
That happened to me, they also took all the Christmas presents as it was 2 days before Christmas, I was a single Mum and only had to go out because someone had set light to one of my Mums trees.

Our back garden fence!
DH had been doing some welding on my car which caught alight and the garage and back fence burnt down.
After the new garage was erected he built the fence himself. We woke up a couple of days later and it had gone.
We believe it was a neighbour a couple of doors down because we'd asked him to quote for the work, but had no proof.
Replaced it again but doubled up on the nuts inside which made it more secure.

My son's bins have been targetted multiple times when he's not been around to bring them in immediately after emptying.
The local authority has replaced them FOC several times but he's just had to pay to replace one.

Someone nicked a pair of very old, very low waisted pink cord wide legged trousers from my car. They broke the window to get them. They were not a fancy brand.

My purse from my bag. Two women cooing over the baby and asking to hold her, really in her face. Didn't notice the third lady was stealing my purse whilst I was distracted.

I ordered a green wheelie bin from the council, and it was delivered and promptly stolen.
Green bins are for garden waste, and you have to pay for a subscription as a separate thing (£60 per year), so just having the bin wont mean your garden waste gets picked up.

I was burgled twice and my CD collection was left both times 🤣

I know someone who was burgled and she had fentanyl patches out. But the thieves left them and stole all of her Kettle Crisps.

In our student house the washing machine was in an outbuilding attached to the house but you could access it without going inside. Someone stole a load of wet washing. Very odd.

Parked on kendals carpark in Manchester to go christmas shopping. Came back to find back passenger window smashed and the back seats dropped to get in the boot . I was a teacher at the time and the boot was full of newspaper and junk modelling material for christmas crafts so that would have been disappointing for the thieving articles.
But I later discovered they'd stolen a single roll of wrapping paper that had dropped out of a shopping bag into the footwear.

The button bit for the doorbell from the front door of the beauty salon I used to work at. I heard him rip it off the door and I chased him into a nearby hardware store and took it back off him!

We were staying with family abroad and someone stole all the top halves of clothes from the washing line ie all the bikini tops, bras and T-shirts 🤷🏻‍♀️

Cheeky mare indeed! How on earth did she explain stealing it?