Strangest thing you've had stolen from you?

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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!)

Prescription sunglasses from my car . They weren’t even designer but really pissed me off !

I pack of quavers from my car glove compartment. They broke the passenger window in a multi-storey and probably were looking for money, but as I didn't leave anything of value in the car they took the only thing they could. I thought they would be caught as they must have been caught as they left a keyring behind which must have had fingerprints all over it, but apparently not. It cost me £200 to replace the window as it was tinted.... versus a packet of 50p crisps.

A large plant tray that fitted in a frame of three, but not the rest of the article, from our allotment.

A hairbrush from a swimming pool changing room.

A pair of glasses, prescription ones.

Someone stole our washing line, and the pulley that it went through.

Also had the inner Renault logo caps from my car alloy wheels stolen.

Went on a school residential in the early 80s when I was about ten and someone stole the talc from my toiletry bag.

Hanging baskets from outside my house.

About 30 yrs ago I lent a friend who was struggling, a dress for a special occasion. She never returned it even though I went to her house and asked for it back. She refused to let me in. I was still paying for it from the catalogue! So I consider that theft.

A decorator stole my dustpan and brush.

Towels and a pillowcase (from a set) from my holiday let.

Probably loads more!

Someone once broke into my car, without doing any damage, and found nothing to nick. They did leave a nice pair of pliers behind though. I used them for years before giving them to a friend.

Years ago when I was living away from home,wed moved out of the rented place to our own home.went back a few days later,as we'd left a few things behind,and they'd broken in and stolen the marble fireplace.all of it. They'd even cut the gas pipe leaving the place full of gas. Good job the cleaner realised and didn't turn on the light,the whole street would've gone up!!!

In the 80s someone stole my mum's favourite pair of jeans from the washing line.

Years ago. A silky bra and knickers from my room in a Bayswater student hostel. Also a red Etam mini-skirt was bever seen again.

A hanging basket .

Not oerosnally but someone kept stealing airfreshener from toilet in cafe I run. Every fucking time we got new one it dissappeared within couple of days. Sometimes twice a week. I still wonder what did someone need that amount for😂

Bicycle seat

Not me, but my neighbour had his car broken into.They opened a brand new packet of cigarettes and stole one......nothing else was taken.

Our, completely full garden waste bin. That thing was heavy.

A few things...my toiletry bag when I went away on an outward bound type c9urse in my youth, a watch when I was working as a carer for someone who was paralysed...obviously it wasn'thim so i think someone put their hand in the window and took it, left a jacket in a hotel and rang them and they mysteriously didnt have it. The last one didnt happen to me but i heard someone moaning that he had put his mop out to dry and someone pinched it.

I know this is a old thread and you may not still be here but your post has cracked me up 😂 I'm from Skelmersdale and honestly never thought I'd see the town mentioned online nevermind on Mumsnet. I can totally believe this happening 😂😂😂🙈

My wedding shoes :( Rather drunkenly took them off in the hall outside our hotel suite when stumbling back in at midnight, the next morning they’d vanished. Never turned up at lost property or with the cleaning crew. Just seems weird to take someone’s expensive white shoes with their initials engraved and a sixpence stuck to the bottom… pretty obvious what they were and it was a quite posh hotel too. I’m still grumpy about it even though it was partly my fault.

I have posted upthread but this one is more recent. That's been a couple of burglaries in our street recently, targeting people with new cars so the main purpose of the break in seems to be to get the car keys, though other stuff gets grabbed as well. Police asked one family to check room by room what was missing. They were astonished to find a pack of sausages had been taken from the fridge. The police found their cars, TV and other stuff but as for the sausages, I think the evidence had been eaten.

This cracked me up 🤣 especially the Monty python quote

Having a pub it used to be ashtrays, now it’s bar runners and the plants out the pots in the back, home wise we were burgled many years ago. They left two computers ( too big maybe ) but took the children’s stash of jelly babies and a steak from the fridge !

A old man once asked me for a £1 coin to get a trolley at Aldi, I didn’t have one but had a trolley key ring you could put in, unlock the trolley and pull out again. I did that for him and he struggled to get the trolley out as the wheels were jammed, so I gave him the trolley key ring to hold while I unjammed the trolley. He walked off with the key ring and left me with the trolley.

Someone stole a waterproof rain cover I had on my bike saddle. It costs like 1 pound max on Amazon. So petty.

It's not unusual

£50, that's why they've nicked it, to replace one of theirs after they've damaged a wheel. I bought my husband a set of MSport tyre valve caps as a little stocking filler one year, and they disappeared one day when we were parked at a big shopping centre.

At my dad's veterinary surgery, someone pinched a solid air freshener out of the loo, and the vacuum cleaner out of the hallway cupboard!

My aunt lost some new lacy knickers off her washing line, they found the culprit ( a local teenager) and police asked if she wanted them back!!! She declined....🤢