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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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chipmonkey · 08/06/2010 23:25

Some kids broke into our house once and took dh's bag from the hallway full of his mouldy stinking football gear! They didn't get anything else.
LOL at the dead dog and the granny in the caravan!

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ruckyrunt · 08/06/2010 23:39

thinking back my mum left the car on the drive and this was a long time ago - the car wasn't there when she went out in the morning, so she asked my dad what he had done with the car and he couldn't remember. Just as this was happening they had a phone call to say that the car was in Birmingham near a canal as it had been stolen and the man was chased in the car and got out and jumped in the canal but couldnt swim so got caught. Then they went or a lovely lunch and picked up the car - all whilst I was at school

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Tiredmumno1 · 08/06/2010 23:47

I am laughing so hard right now and i know i shouldnt be

PainSnail · 09/06/2010 00:08

Hate to say it, but I think the dead dog in the suitcase one is an urban myth. Funny though!

biddysmama · 09/06/2010 11:28

someone stole a bag of clothes i out out for recycling last night lol

ive had a washer and a settee taken that i'd put out for the council to pick up as well..

FluffyDonkey · 09/06/2010 11:45

When I was a newborn, my mum went out and forgot to lock the front door. She came back to discover that her old purse, complete with paper money my brother had been playing with, had been stolen.

She was torn between for the burglar stealing fake money and because she hadn't had time to empty the potty (which was in the hall) before going out....

Morloth · 09/06/2010 11:59

Someone nicked a bag from a friend's boot when they were unloading from a camping trip. It was packed full of poo-ey nappies.

Riddo · 09/06/2010 13:04

We left our old broken microwave in the front garden waiting for a trip to the tip. Someone nicked it overnight which was very helpful of them!

nymphadora · 09/06/2010 13:06

My skip is always getting emptied too. SOmeone took a pond mould the otherday that dh had put holes in to drain the water out.

catinboots · 09/06/2010 14:20

I got mugged at knifepoint in SohO. My friend handed over her small going-out purse, and all that was in it was 2p and a hair clip!

LimaCharlie · 09/06/2010 14:25

great thread

RunforFun · 09/06/2010 14:29

if dog is an urban myth its a good one.

Love the granny and going out purse too !

BlameItOnTheBogey · 09/06/2010 14:33

Ha ha.

An ex of mine once had his bag snatched as he walked down the road. He said he considered running after the thief to stop him but the thought of the thief's face when he opened up the bag to look at his loot and discovered the remains of half a raspberry muffin was too funny to bother.

solo · 09/06/2010 14:35

ven funnier if they bring it back!

AmazingBouncingFerret · 09/06/2010 14:50

I work at ELC and one year we had to have out on display a huge sodding Thomas the Tank Engine pool, filled with playballs. Someone had snagged the side with a pushchair because one side kept going down, I got sick of re-inflating it so decided to replace it with a new one. Whilst a new one was getting inflated, I took to the faulty one with a pair of scissors to speed up the deflation process (was alot of fun, did make sure there was no children around to see me gleefully stabbing Thomas though!)
So I took the now very holey Thomas out to the outside bins, it was the day after delivery so the bin was chock full of cardboard so I put Thomas next to the bin.

10 minutes later I was back out there. Thomas was gone. All afternoon was half expecting some cheeky fucker to come in with holey thomas and try and get it swapped! But alas, Holey Thomas was never seen again.

Lexilicious · 09/06/2010 15:34

I used to have to take off the parcel shelf and put the seats down in my 106 to fit my cello in, when I drove to an orchestra rehearsal after work on mondays. Most days I would also have my gym kit with me. One monday night I was too knackered to do two trips from the car (v lazy, wasn't a fifth floor flat or anything - parked on a suburban street right outside the house), so I just took in the cello. In the morning my passenger door was bent, the top had been pulled back enough to reach and pull up the lock stick and open the car to get at my gym kit, which was then strewn in neighbours gardens for 50m down the road. Sweaty knickers and all.

On the other side of the coin, I have done skip-diving for furniture when a student in Selly Oak. We thought there was a sort of unspoken amnesty fortnight in the summer when everyone put their unwanted furniture in their front yards. We picked up sofas, dining chairs, barbecues, all sorts of stuff. A hi-fi one year, that was not really broken, it just had a very weird CD stuck in it.

101damnations · 11/06/2010 22:59

A few weeks ago scrap metal was reaching £200 a tonne.Therefore I was furious when my 20 year old cooker with one broken ring was taken from my drive.I went to work at 9am and when I got home at 11.30am,it had gone.My neighbours saw two swarthy looking men loading it onto a truck and thought I'd asked them to take it away.I had been intending to let my dad have it for the scrap heap,so was very cross-if they'd wanted it they could have paid me for it.

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