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!)

A Tom Jones cassette tape from the car.
Yet on the backseat was a sports bag with equipment and clothes.

Car was broken into and they stole DP’s sunglasses case but left his sunglasses. Also slightly off topic one bonfire night someone set fire to all the dog poo bins in our local park but left the normal bins alone

A friend had her car broken I to and justvthe steering wheel was pinched!

We're a corner house. According to my neighbour some CF parked over my drive on Easter Sunday, leapt out with secateurs, hacked a big chunk off my rosemary bush in my garden, and then drove off! CF was obviously planning lamb for lunch that day!

Sadly my Ring doorbell doesn't cover that side of the garden otherwise I'd be posting pics on the street whatsapp!

Not me, but a friend.. had a plant pot arrangement newly planted outside the front door. Just followed the trail of earth and took it back.

Not me, but a friend.. had a plant pot arrangement newly planted outside the front door. Just followed the trail of earth and took it back.

I had a frog that croaked when you walked past it on my front garden, some fucker had it away

My knickers - off the washing line!
Not sexy lacy jobs either, but plain boring white cotton M&S ones.
We found the clothes pegs dumped in a neighbours garden round the corner.

I had that happen a few years ago. I only realised when we got some nice weather, and I went to hang some washing out.

off the washing line a tatty rug that was just put their to air; it belonged in the dog basket
someone broke into a car of my ex's and stole the kids pushchair. it was a basic fold up thing just used on a holiday oh yes and bottle of codeine
shed broken into just an old parasol!

2 pumpkins from the front step at Halloween- my son was gutted!

As a teenager I had a beanie hat with my treasured Blue Peter badge pinned to it. A lad nicked my hat ‘for a laugh’. He returned the hat but kept the badge.

I had someone staying with me who over stayed their welcome and them moving out for quite unpleasant.
They moved out mid-winter. The nice weather rolls around, I go to hang my washing up outside on the line to dry and found they took my blooming laundry basket with them when they moved out. (Don’t need it when hanging washing up inside) That really pissed me off! (They had also taken other odds and sods that I found out at the time but this one really annoyed me!)

Another one at work was where someone pinched the toilet paper, mirror, and soap from the toilet. Left a stinking nappy though.

There was a spate of steering wheel thefts a few years ago. I don’t know what the motivation was but I’m sure (but happy to corrected if I’m wrong) they were BMWs.

When I was about 14, I mislaid a piece of art homework.
I wasn't very good at art but this was a surprisingly nice charcoal outline of a woman's body.
My mum wanted it up in the kitchen but I couldn't find it.
I assumed I'd left it at school, chucked it away or it'd been buried in my piles of teenage crap.
I didn't give it a second thought.

Twenty years later, I went to a school reunion.
It wasn't a reunion of close friends, just a very general reunion organised through social media.
At the bar, a woman I'd been loose friends with for a few months at 14 handed me the missing art homework with profuse apologies.
Apparently she'd spotted it in my bedroom, loved it, nicked it, and had it on display everywhere she'd lived since.
I told her she could keep it.

Really outing but hi Christina, if you're here.

I work in a Maccies and this happens more times than you'd think
They suss out the newbies and the ones that look a bit stressed out (I've had it done to me on front counter)
Nothing happens-they get to keep their stolen goods
Cheeky fuckers

My mother was one of these people that if she took a shine to something,it was hers
Even if she hadn't paid for it,she'd just help herself (charity shops are a firm favourite or the 'free' sugars/salt/ketchup in cafes)
Anyway,due to locking myself out one day,I'd given my father a spare key (I knew he'd forget he had it and wouldn't let himself in)
God knows how she got wind of this,but she stole it,had a spare cut and put the original back
For weeks I thought I was going mad
My new cleaning clothes went walkies,then a pair of shoes,then a pan and some other bits and bobs
My post would have been opened and left on the table and food would be missing from the fridge
I went mental at my then teens,thinking they'd waited until if left and snuck back home but they all swore it wasn't them
Then a ring went missing and a candle,I'd had enough,so I took the day off work,set off as normal but hung around,waiting for one of the teens to come home
I saw my mother pull up and let herself in!
I followed her and there she was,stuffing my cleaning products into her bag
She wasn't even ashamed-just brazen and said I bought better products than she did and she deserved them more!
I'm now nc

My mascara!

About 15 years ago, at work, putting on some makeup and nipped to the loo leaving makeup bag on the sink.

It was a crap job, everyone on minimum wage, and I had a Dior mascara that I'd bought myself as a massive treat in the sales.

Someone must have seen it and nabbed it. I hope they were thoroughly disappointed - I'd only bought it because it was the only brand I could find at the time that did a purple mascara!

My guess is that it was had away by your neighbours who found the croaking irritating.

Lost all my white pants in a hotel but all the black ones were still there. It was very random.

A copy of A Room With a View. I was coming home from a festival via coach. I was reading said book when I decided to take a nap. When we were disembarking the book was completely gone. I got on my hands and knees and was looking for the book as was the driver. After 10 mins of looking we gave up.

I only really cared cause the book contained a boy’s number who I had kissed at the festival. I can only imagine that when we stopped at some random Midlands town one of the new passengers swiped it as they walked past. Really random.

Someone kicked our back gate in, breaking the lock. They stole a dead, brown, three month old Christmas tree. They left nice garden furniture, a fire pit, several nice garden ornaments and a expensive bike !

Our goldfish (at Uni). Nicked in a pint glass at a party.

We got him back after some super sleuthing though....

My food caddy waste bin. Along with my neighbours. At first we thought the council had ceased the service but no. Somebody just waltzed by and picked both up and walked off.

A TV remote control disappeared during a house party I had when I was a teenager. Assume someone either stole it or somehow broke it and disposed of it, as it never turned up.