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!)

£10

My ex is a nasty piece of work and refused to pay for his kids,so I was really struggling to feed them (he of course had money,he just didn't see why he should have to feed his own children)

I'd save £10 to cover us for food over the weekend

The bellend ex came round to pick up his kids (he was only doing this to control and hurt me)

I went for the tenner so I could nip to the shop and it had gone

He'd been the only person that could have taken it

He denied it but I know he did by the look on his face

£10 was loose pocket change to him but was my lifeline

A few years later,I had a friend who was jealous of my life and would help herself to anything she thought she deserved

A necklace,my mobile phone,make up,the kids/my clothes and money all disappeared

When I'd realised,I dumped her and she started claiming id stolen from her!

Took me over a year to shake her off

Some years ago my uncle went to outpatients and when he returned to the car a very smart woman was removing the newly planted spring flowers from the hospital borders.
Uncle told her to stop but she was brazen.

Had a house party and someone stole the plug for my phone charger. Unplugged it, took the plug, left the lead sad and alone next to the socket.

Bizarre.

A younger cousin,in their teens so should know better, stole my dad's hairbrush . He's very fussy about the brush he uses they are old style with black bristles made from some sort of soft plastic and cannot be got anywhere these days . He said she picked it up brushed her hair and put it in her bag. He visited a few weeks later and saw it and stole it back 😆.

I just love that you were driving around in a 2CV wearing a floppy black velvet beret! 😂❤️

Old house got broken into Xmas week of 2009 so all presents out and ready to be wrapped, tones of cash and even our new puppy downstairs.... for them to just take all the carrots?! and some chocolate boxes.
My uncle chased them down the street while we called the police and said they were off their heads on drugs so would of probably just grabbed the first thing they saw

My dad had a 6 foot conifer/Christmas tree growing in his back garden - one December he noticed it was missing - someone had just come in over the fence, cut it down and stolen it.

Ooh, a monkey stole my and my husband's toothbrushes several years ago!

Were you also innocently carrying them down the street in Lombok, Indonesia, when an errant vicious monkey demanded them?

Not me, but local to me a couple of people have had newly planted laurel trees nicked.

we had an old house brick with a trio of letters stamped into it, very ordinary but we kept it because of the letters. Next doors builders nicked it, we know it was one of them, my partner spoke to the foreman and it was returned the next day. We also had a stags horn hanging up and I removed it somewhere safe as one of the builders had shown an interest in it and asked could he have it.

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Returned to our student house one evening to find that someone had nicked the gas boiler and the fridge. Thankfully, the landlord believed us.

Not me, but after I’d got married, my parents had a break in. They left lots of valuable antiques but took the microwave oven.

DH had the bonnet of his car stolen one night. It was parked on the road outside the house.

Not the same type of theft but years ago my friend left her child's pushchair outside my front door - which was actually at the side of the house. When she left we noticed my cat in next door's garden, a bit of a distance dragging something around and wondered what it was.
She rang me when she got home and said I know what your bloody cat was dragging around - the steak I bought for my tea! He had nicked it from the basket part under the pushchair.

I had a tatty old wooden desk absolutely riddled with woodworm - I'd tried to treat it without success. My neighbour offered to take it to the tip for me and in the few minutes between me shutting the back gate and him driving around with his trailer it vanished.

When I was 7 I stole a friend's tiny blue spade (from a strawberry shortcake toy) because I really wanted to use it to eat chocolate mousse. I have no idea why. I regretted it as soon as I left and pretended to find it in my bag when I got home so Mum would let me run it back and everyone would believe it was an accident... it was in my possession for less than 5 mins and I still feel bad about it 40 years on!

A neighbour had an anvil stolen from her garden.
Many years ago there was a spate of garden gnome thefts in a nearby town. Soon after they were all discovered, patiently queued at a bus stop.

@Newdress93 a huge planter full of soil and plants from front door! weighed a ton! also had a beanbag stolen from the washing line. the police found that in someone flat and offered it back to me!!

Not me but my mam was in hospital one time and someone stole all her underwear when she gone to get a scan. I still laugh thinking about her ranting down the phone "cant even have a knickers in this dump 😅".

I had ordered 3 sandwiches at work to take home for supper. Went to the fridge when I was going home and someone had stolen 2 of them. Had to go and get food for everyone that evening.

I grew up on a rough estate and if someone put their house up for sale and moved out before the new family moved in then it was treated as a free for all.

One house had its fence panels, shed and plants nicked. It was all the next door neighbour and she didn’t hide them- plants were dug up and replanted in her garden, shed was lifted over to her garden and new fence panels in her front garden.

A close friend when I was around twenty, let me borrow a jacket of hers for a night out.
A few days later I realised some cheap, but sterling, silver rings of mine were missing, including an unusual one that my mother gave me as a child.
A couple of months later, I happened to be at hers and for some reason we popped to her room. I saw that she had my rings in a bowl on her dressing table-- I realised instantly I must have taken them off and put them in the jacket on the night out.
I took them back, there and then I was so pleased to get them back I can't really remember the excuse she gave as to why she still had them, but after that I kind of knew not to fully trust her. She must have known they were mine and instead of mentioning them when she first found them she would have happily kept them.

Parked my car under a bridge to go clubbing. Stupidly left coats in foot well to avoid cloakroom fees. Got back and window was smashed. The only thing they'd taken was a can of tango. A few months later I got an email from the police with pictures of stolen items staying to look through to see if I recognised anything I'd lost. Devastatingly the can was not there.

The OP reminded me. My husband had an ancient rusty Fiat Uno (which later became mine) and someone once nicked the petrol cap which was sort of like a screw in plug, completely detachable. A couple of years later I left the replacement one on the roof of the car while refuelling and then drove off. A nice man spotted it, picked it up and followed me all the way to work to return it!

Used to live on a main road which had lots of footfall - people heading into or out of town centre. Our neighbour gave us a virburnham bush when she was landscaping her front garden. I left it in our front garden on a canvas thing while I nipped out for 15 mins to get son from nursery (was then going to drag it through house to back garden). In that 15 mins someone stole it. It weighed a ton so they must have had a van or something.

Someone also stole £9 b&q broom that we kept at the side of the house for sweeping gravel off the path.

Second night of holiday in Corfu someone nicked our beach towels off the railings on the little patio.

Years ago someone broke into our flat then scarpered when they realised we were there. They made off with presumably what they could grab on the way out - a money box full of coppers and my young person's railcard. The most annoying thing was that they let the window slam on the way out and it smashed.