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!)

A bag containing rolls of plastic bags from just inside the back door. Sneak thief had previously taken my handbag and then a fruit bowl (with fruit) on separate occasions. My neighbour said it was probably the fish man (van going door to door selling fresh fish) who was very unreliable.

She made us laugh one day when she came round to say 'watch out, the fish man is back', which made me think of a doctor who episode.

Later found out it was boys from the High School.

I got "pickpocketed" - they stole something from the front zip pouch of my bag (all the other sections were secure so not posible to get into). They stole my Body Shop Moroccan Argan Oil Lip Balm. The only thing in there.

I was in Morocco at the time.

Talk about coals to Newcastle...

On the plus side the staff in the store when I got back thought it was so funny they replaced it for free!

You thought the world had moved on from stealing other people's things?! I'm not being mean I just can't get my head round that sentence. People steal as much now as ever, surely?!

My favourite coat from the corner of a nightclub (only from top shop but couldn't get another!) and my Lego men from a tree in my garden when I was a kid. Heartbroken!!

I had the hose connector stolen last year. They cost a couple of quid, yet someone came round the side of my house, undid my hose, and stole the connector.

A marrow. I accidentally left a courgette on the plant too long and it grew into an enormous marrow. My MIL wanted it for the church harvest festival display where it was promptly nicked within 2 days. Why?? It was heavy and awkward to carry and would have tasted horrid! People are weird.

probably thought they were magic!

There was a thing about this on radio 1 a few years ago but I still laugh about it to myself.

One was they had all of their CDs in a CD case in their car and someone had stolen it but had obviously gone through it first because they’d taken all of the celine dion CDs behind.

Another one was someone stole a multi bag of walkers crisps out of their car but open the bag to remove all of the salt and vinegar ones and took all of the rest.

Its not funny when you think about it because it’s wrong but you have to laugh about how people can be so brass to break into someone’s car and then be picky about what they take.
I guess even low life criminals have taste 😂

How many knickers would a knicker nicker nick if a knicker nicker could nick knickers?

@YesThatsATurdOnTheRug exactly I am naiive as I said!
I've reached the grand age of 31 without having had anything like it happen before. My parents were always telling me stories of things being stolen back in the 80s + 90s!

We had our apartment repainted and one of the painters stole my large Global knife worth £140 that I'd saved up to buy just a few months earlier... Painter denied it (when I politely asked if they had moved it somewhere when painting – I didn't accuse them!) but we had a magnetic knife block in the kitchen and I know I put it back up after washing it before going to work that morning!

My stepdaughter was showing potential buyers (a couple) around her home when the woman stole a perfume bottle left out in the bedroom.

She had lingered behind in the bedroom and came out and had removed a chiffon type scarf from around her neck and had it bundled up in front of her as if to conceal something.

She was fussing with it and as they entered another bedroom she dropped it and simply picked it up and put it down on a bedside table.

Not a word was spoken about it as my stepdaughter was lost for words.

The couple were millionaires and the fragrance was readily available to buy so it must have been some kind of thrill seeking attempt!

The husband didn't bat an eyelid or acknowledge it either!

They didn't buy the house!

When I was a kid I was out shopping with my Mum and we had some shopping in our trolley and just coming out the car park. Someone approached her and bent over the trolley to ask for the time. When we got back to the car she realised one of the bags was missing which was a pair of cropped trousers she had bought with a gift card and a Jacqueline Wilson book for me! Not sure if that was what they were after...

Same. A lovely potted plant I’d just put in my door step. Was bloody raging

A pair of knickers from a hotel in Bordeaux. They were inside the wardrobe in a 'dirty laundry' bag. The socks I'd worn were still there.

Back in my teenage days a ' friend' stole a boyband cassette. Ran into an old school 'friend' recently and in a very vague way (semi confessional) she said when she was younger she used to get jealous if others had things she didn't like cassettes...

I worked out at the time it was her but couldn't prove it. We swapped numbers but I'm unsure about keeping in touch. 👀

Also not me but a good friend. House broken into and among the vast amount of stuff stolen (jewelry, electronics, handbags) they stole her vibrator. Fucking grim that you’d take a used sex toy but I suppose these scrotes have no shame anyway

As an impecunious student I’d just been to the laundrette. I hung my clothes on the line. All my bras were pinched. I phoned up the police (I did not dial 999, just called the local station) because it seemed a bit dodgy. They laughed at me! As I am generously endowed my bras were expensive, and I really couldn’t afford to replace them.

In the long ago days of CDs, my sister’s car was broken into. Turns out even thieves have standards. They generously left her Cliff Richard CDs.

We were burgled during the day about 20 years ago, came home in the evening and someone had kicked a hole in the very flimsy front door. As we drove up my husband asked what the hell I had done that morning because as you looked at the house it was lit up in every window! Someone had come in, gone around the house and turned on every single light then all they took with them was my coat and a bag I had hanging by the front door and my new spare glasses that were on the stairs! I took it quite personally and it did freak me out for a while but nothing like that ever happened again. 🤷‍♀️

All of my Nectar points. We always save them to use on a big shop for Christmas or when friends come for a weekend. I was raging. To be fair Nectar reinstated without question because they could see they'd been used in a place where my own use of the card showed I was 300 miles away about half an hour later. But the faff of having to set up a new account was pretty annoying as well.

Not particularly weird I suppose but it still irks me. My ex had a party when I was at work and someone stole my (probably fake) lucite Dior bangle and my Usher CD. Yes, it was the 00's 🙈

Somebody smashed my car window in a Sainsbury's car park and stole the parcel shelf. A friend had a whole rockery stolen from her front garden and just this week, my neighbour had all of his garden furniture stolen, it was taken up into the woods behind us and when they had finished they set fire to the whole lot.

I had the pole of a sweeping brush stolen. I had left it at the back door, when I went back the pole had gone, but they left the brush part.

I also had a broken hoover that was out the front for disposal stolen.

I bought a beautiful artist made, copper dragonfly that I placed in the garden. My psycho bastard bully of a neighbour who, apart from terrorising me, probably heard me on his CCTV telling my friend how much I loved it, took it one night and bragged about it. He was in the emergency services and was mates with a lot of the local police, so no help there.... Over several years he stole and damaged a lot of my stuff so eventually I moved house. I heard through the grapevine a couple of years ago that COVID hit him hard, and he was reduced to living his life in his chair or bed. I have no sympathy. Karma is all!

At secondary school someone stole a scarf my DGM had knitted for me. Claimed she had bought the clearly handknitted scarf from a shop.

It really upset me at the time because she was so bare-faced in her lies. Eventually someone retrieved it for me but obviously it has stuck with me for 40 odd years.

More recently someone stole a couple of steaks, a bag of chips and a couple of cans of beer from our garage. Obviously fancied them for dinner. They hadn't taken all the contents of the freezer or all the beer, just enough for a meal!

We do now keep the garage locked up at all times.