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!)

Somebody stole the bus stop in my DB'S village. There are only two buses a week so maybe they thought it wouldn't be missed.

This was lifted from my bathroom by a guest
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Not stolen from me but something I stole... at a house party when I was 18, very drunk to the extent someone called my dad to pick me up. I was vomiting and went home with the plastic insert from inside my friend's bathroom bin on my lap, using it as a sick bucket. A few weeks later said to her "oh, I've got the thing from inside your bin by the way" and she couldn't stop laughing as her dad had been scratching his head and searching for it, not understanding where on earth it could have gone.

Miffy model figure from
my classroom!

oh lord i have done that to my mother in law. she has those annoying sound like ornaments that make noise when you walk past them 🙄 everytime we go there( and not just us but other members of family too ) sneakily move it to the bin or throw it in the car to go in our bin. latest one was a gnome that whistles every time you walk past it. like why ?
she has cottoned on it us we think but because of there us like 10 of us altogether she can't blame a specific one 🤣 but just keeps buying them

Someone broke into our garden and dug up 4 fuschias!? It still baffles me.

I did wonder about this last time I was in an Airbnb. They had the most beautiful pink huge Le Creuset pot. I obviously wasn’t going to take it, but omg, I was drooling at that and the stunning place mats (National Art gallery style). I wonder if they’d charge/have the ability to charge if they noticed stuff missing in between guests. I can’t imagine not using such a fantastic item myself: why leave it in the Airbnb? It was a ‘proper’ country property, I think I’d buy it were it for sale (the house).

Tarantula

We were broken into. They only took a jardiniere. It had a plant in it. I only noticed it missing when I went to water the plant. That's all they took though 🤔

Edit: managed to post twice!

Smashed the window in to get the parcel shelf out of my Peugeot 205 I think it was H reg so a long time ago

My left headlight.

I had an old car - so old in fact that I noticed the one other who drove in the area. I assume they noticed me too as I went out to the car one day and I was missing a light. The same car also had a missing branded hub cap at one point. Until one day it didn't and I did....

Someone stole 2 bits off the front of my mini, only realised when I drove home and my front grill fell off.

Someone was obviously trying to steel our wheels off our folding caravan at a service station, we must have disturbed them. As got back and the trims had gone and all the wheel nuts were loose or on the floor, good job we didn't move off. I was more annoyed as there was a bus next to us all the time and the driver sat on a chair next to our caravan the whole time.

Someone took my bat man radio aerial bobble off my car. My mini didn't look the sane without it.

A sheep’s skull from my garden - it was a next door neighbour as they were moving away

Can I confess? To set the stage… this was while I was at university and I belonged to a large group of friends from related but different clubs.

some friends and I went to a house party held by other friends who shared a house. I don’t know why we thought it was a good idea drinking…yes drinking is why this was a good idea at the time but we thought it would be fun to take one of the guy’s desk chairs. Ok so at the time all student furnishings were basically the crap your parents were tired of so gave you to go to school (the pic is is the exact one that we took but I think his was orange)

So anyway this chair rode around in my friend’s car for a week until the following weekend when we went to a different house party. Somebody probably me thought it would be funny to swap a desk chair at the current house with the one in the car. So we did. It was just as bad as the original one.

This practice of swapping chairs went on for several weeks at different houses until we got bored of it and promptly forgot about. Right up until we ended up back at the original house and all the guys were going on about the desk chair (very much like this thread “who would steal a crappy desk chair?!”)… several of the guys lived in the various houses we did this at, so then all of the similar stories came out.

Without missing a beat I blamed the rival club to mine and wandered away sheepishly.

Not read the full thread, but does anyone remember the post where a friend had stolen the OP’s sunglasses, I think it was, then blatantly lied about it. I think (hope!) the OP got them back in the end…
I’ve had a pair of (used!) walking boots stolen from my porch. They weren’t even particularly fancy/expensive ones but they were very comfy and I was gutted.
Also — the opposite situation — we were burgled and they took various electronic stuff, including my DH’s laptop. A year or so later, I was going through some stuff — and, lo, there was his laptop. I tried to tell our insurance company but they said not to worry about it. (TBF, it was very cheap!)

Cover off the spare wheel of my 4x4. Stupid idea to put them on the back of a vehicle with a “special” cover on them.

Not me but a friend worked in Habitat in Milton Keynes back in the last century.
They had a wooden tree thing used to display maybe 20/25 cushions. The entire thing was nicked one Saturday afternoon. A customer asked about a cushion "oh yes, we have one here on the stand". No stand, no cushions
It remained a mystery and cctv was yet to be used in shops

Jeez @NewsdeskJC

🤣twas v funny watching folk jump😁, the postie called it a few choice words, I suspect him. To be honest when I forgot I called it a green twat a couple of times 🤣🤣🐸🐸🐸🐸.

On an outward bounds type holiday my entire toiletry bag went missing, presumably stolen. This was before the days of premium skin care so I don't know why anyone would want it. Where I used to live a neighbour put his mop out to dry and someone stole it!!

Was it a Reliant Robin, or did they leave one wheel behind?

Friend got broken into about ten years ago. Just stole a bag of Babybels from fridge and the bottle of supermarket own vodka on the sideboard. Bottle only had a fifth of the contents left. Yet a full bottle of Absolut next to it!

My friend had a bag nicked, containing her urine sample collected in an old miniature whiskey bottle! Very mellow flavour, I bet!

🤣 No it was a Ford Cortina with Go-fasta Stripes. They nicked 3 wheels and left 1 and propped 3 the missing spaces up on bricks. It was dark & late and we didn't notice it until he started the car up. I did date a biker who had a Del Boy yellow Reliant Robin as he could drive it on a motor bike licence. It had no reverse & we used to have to push it to reverse it.