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!)

Maybe they did me a favour, on reflection. 😆

Someone stole 6 cloth nappies off my line, just Terry squares, not even the shaped kind.
but at least the left the line itself 😂

Years ago I was selling my flat and had an estate agent round to value it. At the time I'd just popped a load of laundry on the radiators and left him to measure up. When the guy left, I'd gone straight out and when I came home realised there was a gap in items on the radiator where I'd hung underwear. Wasn't until my DP asked where a particular pair of CK underpants were when it dawned on me that that's what was in the gap. He'd only knicked a paid of my fellas boxers!
Nowt as queer as folk as they say!

We used to have far too many apples on our two trees , so always put a large box on our garden wall with a note on it, saying 'Help yourselves' .

One guy did , he took the whole box !!! Cheeky sod !

Same op

In the past wheel caps stolen all 4.
Friend had number plate nicked.

When a student my DP was broken into and their CD collection stolen... except one. The robbers had taste and left the boyzone CD behind. 😂 Makes me giggle whenever I think of it!

From when I was a teacher: blu-tac.

Posters in my classroom were constantly falling down because kids were pulling back the corners and nicking pieces of blu-tac. This was not one kid or one class, literally happened across multiple schools I worked in over a 10 year period. What's so exciting about bloody blu-tac??

A toaster 🤣 it was purple and my flatmate took it when she left!

My photo from the staff board in reception.

We'd just done our monthly shop when we were burgled. They emptied the freezer in the garage, plus groceries from the kitchen. They also stole the keys and took my Husband's car to take it all away in.

At a music festival in Butlins Minehead, someone stole the patio table from outside our chalet. We were in the middle of the row so why they chose ours is anybody's guess. It was there when we got back in the wee small hours but gone when we woke up.

About 12 years ago, I was at a supermarket, with my bag of bags on the hook below the handle. Somebody nicked them when I parked up the trolley to check something - it was crowded.

A few minutes later, I saw my bag of bags on someone else's trolley and nobody around, so took it off the trolley.

It was definitely mine as 1. the main outer bag was from a French supermarket and 2. there was a shopping list in my own handwriting inside.

That's not unusual!

My parents used old compost bags to bag their garden waste to the tip.

DF got the bags out and left them at the front then the phone rang. These bags were stolen!

Not me but Bristol city council....a "friend" I bumped into looking very smart one lunchtime told me he was up in court for sawing the top off parking meters for the money inside...imagine all that work for £4.60 (parking back.then was 20p an hour)

My ex did some data entry work for the court system and one guy broke into office premises and stole a sellotape dispenser! He also told me a surprising number of guys get done for public indecency when they're found having a wee in a tenement stairwell (Scottish city)!

My son’s day old Nike trainers from outside our door when we lived in HK. The person must have been really desperate because stealing there is taken very seriously, I didn’t report it and bought new ones. Made me really think about the wealth gap. Children’s shoes are very expensive there even though that’s where they are made (well nearby).

My car was broken into and similarly the thieves didn’t take my Olivia Newton John CDs. Which I was quite offended about.

So this happened to my Nan years ago! She had a doctors appointment and was asked to take a urine sample with her but the only container she had was a small, empty whisky bottle. She washed it out and sterilised it with boiling water, decanted her pee into and put it in her bag. By the time she got to the doctors, someone had pinched it! Bet they got a shock when they drank that whisky! Karma!

Comdoms i hope they got used well.

Me and an ex boyfriend went to drive home after a night out at Reading Top Rank Suite circa '78 and someone has stolen 3 of his car tyres and propped the car up on bricks.

Some years ago, I experienced a bizarre but very sad theft . My two pedigree guinea pigs were stolen from their run in my garden and the little bed they used too.

A snowman!

Dd was 2yo and it snowed about 2" so we went to make her first snowman. She was full of cold, so we made one as quickly as we could in our front garden (we had a huge tree in the back garden so snow didn't get through it enough to make one).

It was about 18" high, and we gave it a hat made out of an old drinking chocolate tin, and a scarf from a jay cloth then went in for her to sleep.
When she woke up a couple of hours later, someone had obviously taken it with a spade as there was a clear square of ground surrounded by snow.

It was obviously made by a young child, and fairly rubbish, so I did feel it was a bit mean. Otoh, who on earth pinches a snowman rather than make their own when a normal adult could have made a similar one in less than 10 minutes?

A monkey stole 9yo DS’s camera from him. We got it back and the monkey had taken photos!

Dug a few rows of onions, strung them together and hung them from our veranda to dry.

Next day every single one was gone- I could have cried given the hard work that went into those beautiful onions. 🧅