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Original poster

To laugh at the people who nicked my lawn mower this morning when I left ion the drive

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ruckyrunt · 07/06/2010 22:18

to put in the car later to take to the tip as the mower was broken and I was taking it to the tip would love to see there faces when they realsie that the blade unit undernieth is missing

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OldLadyKnowsNothing · 07/06/2010 22:19

How kind of them to take it for you.

Vallhala · 07/06/2010 22:21

Well that saved you a job!

I just hope that the buggers don't dump it back in your garden when they realise!

paisleyleaf · 07/06/2010 22:22

hee hee

Someone nicked my garden hose on a reel a couple of weeks ago off my drive.

pigletmania · 07/06/2010 22:22

Thats good, serves them right. Got it taken away free, mabey I could put my junk on my driveway for it to be stolen taken away

bibbitybobbityhat · 07/06/2010 22:23

Heh heh heh.

My beloved Volkswagon Beetle was once broken into for the sake of a carrier bag which I had foolishly left in sight on the back seat.

What did the carrier bag contain?

A bucketful of home-made compost which my slightly eccentric mother insisted I took home with me after one of my visits.

But YOU were saved a trip to the dump. Bargain!!!

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ruckyrunt · 07/06/2010 22:25

I didn't miss going to the tip thats for ure but it did confuse me for a bit and I even looked in the boot to see if I had already put it in..

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SlartyBartFast · 07/06/2010 22:26

good idea, i have a sofa needs tipping.

lazarusb · 07/06/2010 22:26

Karma at work methinks?

belledechocolatefluffybunny · 07/06/2010 22:28

I'll have to try this when I get the sofa and the bed replaced, do you think someone will take the old ones?

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ruckyrunt · 07/06/2010 22:29

you need to put the wrapping ont he old sofa - so it looks like new with a note that says don't pinch

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belledechocolatefluffybunny · 07/06/2010 22:32

I can put the wrapping off the new sofa onto the old one

Amapoleon · 07/06/2010 22:33

Hahahaa!

dilemma456 · 07/06/2010 23:16

Message withdrawn

WillowM2B · 07/06/2010 23:21

People will take anything. We had a skip last year and as quick as we were filling it up it was disappearing.

Went to bed one night and it was virtually full (mainly scrap metal and wood) - got up the next morning and it was almost empty. Result!

rebl · 07/06/2010 23:22

I tried that once, left the mower there for 2 weeks. No one ever took it, so well done to you!!!

JeezyPeeps · 07/06/2010 23:24

Ha ha serves them right.

A story appeared in my local newspaper about a girl that was looking after a neighbours dog. The dog died, and when she spoke to the neighbours they told her to take it to the vets for them to dispose of it.

The only way she could figure to transport the dog was in a suitcase. She was trying to get the suitcase up some steps when a kind man offered to help her. And then ran away with the suitcase, complete with dead dog.

What a great way to dispose of unwanted items - get someone to steal them and dispose of them for you!

belledechocolatefluffybunny · 07/06/2010 23:43

Partyofsevensoontobeeight · 07/06/2010 23:52

I heard something the other day, some bloke saying he put an old, but still working fridge freezer outside his house, with sign on saying 'free to a good home', after so many hours no-one had took it so he changed the sign to 'fridge freezer £100', within 20 mins someone had nicked it

honeydragon · 08/06/2010 00:00

when my car was stolen the thieves drove up to where it was stored (no tax was used as run around on a farm) and stole it. It was a knackered nissan sunny. It later transpired that they drove a trailer and physically lifted my car onto it to steal it.

How fucked off must they have been to realise that the pile of scrap metal they stole had petrol in the tank, was unlocked and the keys were on the dashboard

belledechocolatefluffybunny · 08/06/2010 00:08

skihorse · 08/06/2010 05:49

lol@ dead dog in a suitcase!

nanafantastic · 08/06/2010 09:59

Someone I worked with told me the story of her parents-in-law. They decided to take granny with them to France for a caravan holiday.

When they got to the ferry, they realised Granny didn't have a passport, so they stowed her in the caravan.

When they got to the other side, they stopped to let her out only to discover she'd died!

They drove to the nearest police station to come clean.

When they took the policeman outside to check the caravan, it had been uncoupled and stolen!

They found it abandoned fairly close with Granny still inside!

skihorse · 08/06/2010 10:06

I still have tears in my eyes hours later about the dead dog (and soon to be granny in the caravan I fear) - and I can't help but wonder what his version of events were...

Did the man who stole the suitcase go through the rest of his life thanking his lucky stars for his "lucky escape" from the psycho dog-killing woman?

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ruckyrunt · 08/06/2010 22:40

the scrape collects have a really waful horn and shout as well - i had wondered so called on my neighbour who would twitch the curtains but doesn't have any to save the bother - she said the rag and bone hadn't been as he came around last week when I was away - so it was tea leaves with long grass betwen their ears

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scanty · 08/06/2010 22:46

left my old patio table on our front drive as it wouldn't fit in the car to take it to the tip and hate waste anyway. Took a couple of weeks but eventually someone asked if they could have it. Wondering what else I could get rid of next - this could become addictive!

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