People really will pinch ANYTHING!

[marthamoo]

Bit of background info so you get the idea - I live in a terraced house with a communal passageway that runs down the back of the houses with a gate at each end. My actual garden is up a few steps and through a locked gate.

The other night I was picking up snails and slugs in the garden with a pair of old kitchen tongs I keep for such jobs. Then I hung them on a little pipe that sticks out of the wall by the back door. Just looked for them to pick up more snails and some t*sser has pinched them! They were rusty, and snail slimed and disgusting - I hope they are using them to turn sausages over and I hope they get very, very ill.

A few years ago I also had my pram ramp pinched - two planks of wood which dh had made a lip for so they fixed onto the doorstep and I could get the pram in. Absolutely no use to anyone except me. Weird.

ha ha - my flat was broken into once and they took, among other things, a frozen leg of lamb from the freezer

i figure they must need it more than me!

Just remembered that our secretary at work came in one day to find her electric typewriter (which she was still using in 2002!) was gone and in its place a note reading (sic) 'Sory for this.Need the money to buy kids Chrissmas presents.'

Who would want an electric typewriter????

We've been wondering why the council was replacing a perfectly good wooden fence around the playarea in our local park. I just found out that someone stole the old fence - in several stages...

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I used to work at the Post & Mail building in Brum and there was a security guard who worked there who was a kleptomaniac - things kept going missing from various offices like nice pens, a jacket etc. When they opened his locker thousands and thousands of paper clips and post it notes fell out

someone stole a plant from the middle of our lawn - dug it up over night. When I reported it to the police he said there had been a lot of vandalism round our way, I had to patiently explain that someone had obviously brought a spade and carefully dug a hole to get - not vandalismat all!

someone knicked a rockery stone from our garden once.

somebody pinched dps valve caps off his tires

A Teddybear my sister was playing with in the garden...

My ds' drinking beaker at a toddlers group (affluent area where frankly they could afford to buy their own)

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Someone nicked half my holly bush!

Nothing's gone missing since ....at least the people who wanted our old tumble dryer (didn't work and was plonked on the drive awaiting pick up by the council) and the people who wanted our week old (useless) left over turf had the decency to ask first! As did the man who liked my clematis, so asked if he could take a cutting!

Oh no, hang on, someone did take our recycling bin when just a phone call would have got them a lovely new one.

It's all so strange!

someone broke into my friend's car and stole.....the clock. nothing else, just the clock.

Someone nicked an rotary washing line from my parents garden a few years back..........we bought a new one, and they nicked that too!!

the area we lived in at the time was dreadful for thefts and break-ins, cars (of all types) being stolen, car windows being smashed (including ours).

BUT when we had a konked out old Skoda (it was a horrible red one too - so when my parents picked me up fromschool in it - and dad STILL doesn't understand why I was embaraased ). We neeeded to get rid of it, but could't afford it at the time, so left it on the drive, windows open, doors unlocked................and no-one even pinched radio inside

Yet a few streets away someone had an identical one (which they did want to keep and worked perfectly) stolen

Had our house burgled once and they nicked two telephone books, still wrapped up in BT tape. We think they probably thought they were computer equipment and had lots of laughs imagining their faces as they unwrapped these heavy things they had lugged around over a high fence.

Someone stole our dog once-we caught them leading him out of the farmyard on a piece of string.A member of the same family was also caught stealing knickers of a washing line.The lady caught him at it & chased him down the street with a horsewhip.

I caught someone nicking a charity bag I'd left out yesterday and all the others in the street. I saw red and went after him!

when thew in-laws house was broken into ,they stole the camcorder which had mien and peters wedding tape in it, and a choclate orange from the fridge.

One night dh left the car open. Someone had gone in and nicked a pen, an empty notepad and some tissues.

Could'nt belive it to say there was the stereo, cd's and mini disc.

Doh!

When our house was burgled a few years ago, just after Christmas - all they took was the video remotre control and a christmas cracker!

They'd tried to remove the video (worth about a £10 as v old) but must have been disturbed I guess.

We found the remote in the lane behind the house - minus the batteries (but back put back on)!!!

But a cracker????Why? And they'd pulled it at bottom of garden - dumped the cracker wrapper at bottom of the garden, but taken the hat, joke and toy!

Wierd indeed!

nbg, sure u didnt just clean the car?

Clean?

Whats that?

Also a few years ago my mum and dad had a clear out of old clothes. They bagged a load of stuff up which included my mums wedding dress (1st marriage) and a leather coat of my dads which was v old and looked soooo dodgy.

Anyway my dad put the clothes in the car one night ready to take to the charity shop and yes you guessed it they broke in and took only the wedding dress and the leather jacket.

The police came round and he could'nt speak for laughing. He said
" So we're looking for a thief who's wearing an 80's wedding dress and a 70's leather jacket"

Unbelievably they never caught the person.