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!)

The rubber strip trim thing off the roof of my car. Didn't pinch the other one so it now looks ridiculous. Can't afford to replace.

Oh, I forgot this one....an entire, fully assembled Little Tikes playhouse from our enclosed back yard. They must have carried it up 6 steps, through the stone gateway, then about 20 yards along a back alley to get it to their vehicle. We had a skip in the alley at the time, and we think that attracted scrappies/skip divers who then wandered along the alley to see what else they could lift. My little girl was heartbroken, and is still angry about it 30 years later!!!

When my daughter was in India, monkeys used to hang around in the trees near the shop, and if someone came out with fruit (usually sold in a clear plastic bag) they would leap down, steal it, and run back up the tree, then eat the fruit and throw the peel and bags back at the victim, shrieking with monkey laughter!!!

About 60 years ago, my aunt was on the bus, going to the doctor, taking a urine sample with her. The only container she could find was a small whisky bottle, which she washed thoroughly before decanting her wee into it. Someone who pickpocketed her shopping basket got a nasty surprise 🤣

This was in Indonesia!

The jack point cover off our old Saab.

That was the day I realised that jumping up and down in fury was a real thing.

We had a hub cap nicked while we were away for the weekend leaving the car in a long stay carpark. We also had the electric plug which linked the caravan to the car cut off while the caravan was parked outside our house....DH was cross about that as it was a real faff having to rewire the whole system once he'd bought a new plug.
Some lowlifes tried to steal the homemade Christmas wreath I'd hung on our front door one year..... but I'd padlocked it on, so although they bent it out of shape they couldn't get it off the door.
The weirdest theft was of the rotating warning light attached to our gate to warn traffic that someone was about to pull out (installed after someone took my bumper off as I inched carefully out with my view obscured by the wall.) It was an old light we'd repurposed and without the electric system DH had rigged up (which they left ) it would have been no use to anyone.

You've just reminded me of when my old flat in central London got burgled whilst I was away. The thief/thieves stole a large bar of chocolate & wine from the fridge, some hair extensions, packs of tights, CDs, clothing & lingerie but left the electronic items. We concluded it was kids, a female or some kind of pervert.

Not me but my mum’s car got stolen. It was found later that evening. It was all smashed up but the only thing actually taken was a tape of Bach Cello Suites. No other tapes taken either!

It was massively inconvenient and very upsetting for my mum not to have a car for a bit but we were always curious to know why Yo Yo Ma playing Bach was taken.

Vending machine from the foyer of the magistrates' court, middle of the day with lots of people milling about. Just walked in wearing overalls and put it on a trolley and wheeled it out. Looked official and confident etc and all the actual staff just assumed it was someone else's department / authorization / whatever.

My nephew once stole a hairdryer from my house. He was probably about 19, from a comfortable home and the hairdryer was a £9.99 Argos type. I got over it but last year realised his true nature and am now happily estranged, some 15 years on.

My exh stole my
kitchen sink plug! I can’t prove it was him but it’s exactly the sort of thing he’d do if he didn’t have one.. he still thinks what’s mine is his.. 😫

Someone broke into my car when parked overnight 300 miles from home. Stole a very good sleeping bag (gutted as it was pretty unique and very new), and a large box of very plastic perpetual wall calendars branded in the company name. Must have struggled to carry both as the box was an awkward size and quite heavy.

Compost from the compost bin. They left the bin behind.

It was completely contaminated with potato scab, so I'd been wondering how to get rid.

I was delighted someone fixed that for me