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I know this has probably been done before, but another thread reminded me of when I had the Exhaust stolen off my car.
Nothing else, just the Exhaust.
My mate had his van broken into and they only took his packet of Jaffa Cakes.
Any other good stories about random stuff going ?
My clean laundry.
My clean laundry.
Which immediately reminds me of a mate who came back from uni, his Mum did all his washing, hung it on the line then they all went out for lunch. Came back to find naff all on the line.
Except his Sunderland shirt.
True story.
A hose pipe and an empty hippo bag.
A length of 3"x2"...had 4 length in the drive one day, went to use them and there were only 3!
An ancient Dunlop inflatable boat.
It was a total shed, was kept out the back of our industrial unit, was a total PITA to get out when we took it to Cornwall each summer. It weighed a tonne. Trailer was probably dangerous but one morning it was gone...
Half expect to see it on one of those Lifeboat TV shows some day..
Pair of manky old trainers (and the glasses that were inside them).
Slept at an Aire on the way back from a winter climbing trip to the Alps. Bivied next to my car and awoke in the morning to find the trainers gone. They were the only pair I had so ended up driving the rest of the journey in the inner boots of my mountaineering plastics. Raised eyebrows when the car was searched at customs. Probably worse was driving without my glasses though!
A friend had a tree stolen from his front garden. It wasn't new, had been there years, but wasn't enormous. Just middle tree size. They cut it off, left a stump, took the tree.
not taken, but left behind
Car stolen
police chased it into a wall driver ran away
leaving my POS Astra full of stolen loo roll, eggs and baby oil
My virginity.
(Someone had to say it!)
Some dickwipe smashed the window on Mrs Futtocks car when she worked at Leeds General Infirmary & stole.......her one & only....ice scraper.
A customer of mine, years ago, a farmer, had a Bedford TK cattle truck.
He went to start it one morning ready for a trip to the mart but there was nothing when he turned the key, so he thought the battery was flat. He checked the battery but was more than slightly dismayed to find the whole engine was missing. (Bedford engines were very popular in Hong Kong at the time apparently)
A colleague of my dad's got home from holiday to find his front drive had been stolen.
A pair of Reebok walking boots - whilst I was still wearing them!
23 years ago now - I went on holiday to Spain with a mate's family - can't remember where now but it was a caravan park holiday. We'd been out to the welcome party (which was 4 days after we had arrived) - I'd been swimming in the sea that day and had managed to get my trainers soaked - so I'd left them out to dry rather than wear them that night so they didn't start stinking. I only had a pair of walking boots as my other shoes (I'd planned on disappearing for some walks in the hills whilst there).
Anyway, I got properly trolleyed on the Sangria and ended up getting back to the caravan around 02:00 - it was very warm and I thought I'd sit on the doorstep and have 5 minutes just to relax.
I woke up the next morning - still in the doorway - but without any socks or shoes on. I was convinced I'd got myself undressed but only socks and shoes were off - and neither were in, on, around, under or near the caravan. I think as I'd been asleep on the doorstep with my legs hanging out the door, someone else came along and removed my socks and shoes whilst I was so drunk to have not noticed.
Mate and his family turned the caravan upside down to try to find them, but they never turned up.
Friend had a brand new Shogun took it back to dealers for a 6 week check or similar, hour later phone call you had best come in to the garage , got there to be shown he had had the front drive shafts stolen, whittled it down to a weekend in Liverpool doing a track day previous week, was told it was an hour to two hour job to remove them!! Think it cost him about £1K, another time side window smashed , cigarettes stolen , laptop and phone left!!
My virginity.(Someone had to say it!)
Breaking and entering?
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A GT RTS-3. It belonged to my mum. I'm surprised they didn't bring it back.
Parcel shelf for a 2001 Renault scenic
A lamb. It was a very photogenic and trusting bottle-fed one. A few months after it went missing, it was mysteriously returned to the field, in desperate need of worming and covered in its own poo.
A box of Christmas decorations. Yep. All the little things my grandma had made for me to hang on the tree over the course of my childhood gone.
But I'm not bitter.
A pack of paracetamol - someone put the window through on my car, left the CDs & the old mobile phone! Think my wallet was even in the somewhere too
Not stolen from me , but I stole them - apples - from a greengrocer in town with my best friend.
However that same friend's dad owned the other greengrocer in town and if we asked we could have had as many apples as we could carry 🙂
Cheap prescription sunglasses and the keys to a house nearly 100 miles away.
Neighbour accused me of stealing underwear off his clothes line.
I near shat his pants.
All the energy saving light bulbs from the equipment store at the outdoor centre - including the ones illuminating 40 new fangled mountain bikes, circa 1996. The folk in Kirkcudbright are odd 😉
A 7' x 18' security fencing panel.
Was pissed. Thought I might grow beans up it or something.
Carried it for two miles through central Hull.
The Plod were either asleep or having a right old laugh that night.
My grandfather used to send me Dinky Toy cars from the UK when I lived in the US, I had a friend who used to nick them.
I'd go around, see the cars and nick them back.
A week later they'd be back in his place.
My Mother didn't believe me despite my protestations (of a stroppy 8 yr old) until she came around unannounced, whilst I was there.. she saw them all over the floor.
I won.
I got an apology.
He got a slap.
The friendship ended.
All at my current place of work:
A 2015 calendar, stolen in November 2015.
Every pair of scissors in the office.
All the teaspoons.
A broken keyboard.
matt_outandabout - Member
All the energy saving light bulbs from the equipment store at the outdoor centre - including the ones illuminating 40 new fangled mountain bikes, circa 1996. The folk in Kirkcudbright are odd
A church hall I lived near as a kid had a dark, walled in, off street car park. They'd never had any trouble, thefts or break-ins before, but saved up and put in some security lights just in case. The night after they installed them, they all got nicked.
A lamb
Choplifters.
security fencing panel.
Stolen to border.
Boot of car, joyride, everything back except Stravinsky cassette and ice axe. Shudders.
My MkII Golf got done in a rather unsavoury part of bristol one day. Apart from my Blaupunkt slide mount and about £100 worth of CD's, they took..... A three pack of mint flavoured Durex with one left! 😯 W the actual f??
My spare shirt. Left at work for commuting, 2 shirts the same, but one blue checked, one brown.
The blue one was nicked, never saw it again. Wasn't even clean.
The side trim from the front passenger door of our Vivario van whilst we were out for a paddle on Windermere! Year later still not got round to replacing it!
Bag containing the smelliest rock shoes in the world. Must have been an unpleasant surprise. 😀
Commode chair
Wife wanted a old style chair to sit and feed the baby. Bought one on ebay, I collected it in the van left it in the living room when i went to work next day. She called me upset that Id left a ****ing toilet in the living room. She got our neighbor to put in the drive for me to take to the dump. Someone stole it before I returned home saving me a trip.
I have had a bike rack for a CRV rear wheel by our wheelie bins for two weeks now and unfortunately no one has stolen it.
Years ago someone broke into my old Ford Escort,left the car but stole the 'Crooklock' which was locked to the steering wheel at the time! 🙄
Eight samples bags of soil from a Morrison's car park.
A completely shagged Casio watch that I'd been wearing for almost a year of climbing, trekking and travelling in the Andes. Ripped off my wrist on a busy street in Lima. Scruffy gringo climber 1, Peruvian street thieves: 0.
Big bag of old cycling kit. Team manager wouldn't issue new kit unless you brought him the old kit back. Anything that was salvageable either went to the emergency spares box or a cycling charity in Africa somewhere (if it was out of date, but good condition).
The crap (man it really was crap, ripped, bloodstains, completely worn out, see through) went to the tip. I know how bad it was, as i did most of the sorting out. I wore gloves to do most of it.
They stole the bag that was going to the tip.
Probably a 150 bits of kit. Team probably paid 10 grand for it. Couldn't even use it as rags (lycra rags are useless).
a pair of jeans...mid wash from a friend's student flat in Liverpool. whole bunch of washing a drying machines in the basement, machine was jimmed open and my (no name cheapo) jeans were nicked, water and suds all over the floor.
just...weird.
Not quite stolen as I caught him in the act - a toilet brush that I had left outside by an open drain (I had been trying to clean it).
I walked into my house to see this guy crouching down and about to take it so I yelled at him to f%&k off. He just stared blankly back - turns out he was high on glue (known to the authorities) so presumably in his altered state he thought an ancient and dirty toilet brush had some inherent value.
Someone stole a bag of horse poo from our driveway once.
Someone attempted to steal the head light off my Land Rover 101 FC at a junction in Nigeria, whilst i was sat in it with the engine running!
Had a bag stolen in Spain which was my dirty washing and included a t-shirt that a mate had thrown up on, rolled down dry bag, so they would of got an horrific stench when they opened it!
Years ago someone broke into my old Ford Escort,left the car but stole the 'Crooklock' which was locked to the steering wheel at the time!
From the way you write, it seems you consider this a strange decision.
A rubbish pair of steps from the top of my van. Went back to the yard that night and "modified" an even worse pair. Went back to the job the next day and they got lifted as well.
I had a car window smashed and tax disk stolen. The disk had about 3 days left on it.
I also caught someone trying to steal my bike from the tenement stair when I lived in Edinburgh. I chased the guy down the road. I was naked.
A few years back someone stole both side repeater indicators off my Ford Mondeo while it was parked at work. Brand new replacements were about £9, so god knows why someone thought it worth nicking them.
A few years further back one of my mates swapped the tyres on his MTB, left the old ones (muddy and worn out) in the back garden of his student house. They were gone within 12 hours.
Changed the battery in my car and left the old one next to the wall.
Went in for a cup of tea with the intention of taking the battery to the tip later in the day. Something came up and didn't go.
Came out in the morning to find the battery was gone.
Saved me a trip to the tip , but was also a bit peed off that it had been lifted.
Left my bike locked to a fence once and when I came back later and rode off I quickly realised someone had stolen the two LH side brake blocks.
Came home from a late shift one friday evening, it was royally horsing it down with rain, dumped my old kona hardtail at the back door, and stripped off for shower.... Promptly forgot about bike left unlocked.
Up next morning for a wee saturday morning OT shift, bike was still there but mudguards and lights were gone. They were all screwed on, it must've taken the buggers longer to undo all that than it would've to pedal the bike away!
Not that I'm complaining!.
Someone once stole the plastic sliding bracket thing that clamps the front bike wheel onto my Thule roof bars.
I rang Thule to enquire about the price of replacement, thinking it would cost a fortune, and they just sent me one for free.
Exterior trim panels from a vivaro van clearly isn't that odd, I had all six pinched from my van. The cost to replace with body coloured ones was £600, and they only clip on and off, so I bought bogo black ones.
4 cans of Mackesons out of the fridge in the garage, ignored 3 trials bikes, mountain bike, riding kit and tools. Door to the house was locked so they couldn't get in but just seemed like a random theft.
Two body coloured wing mirror covers from a Mondeo.
"Stolen" from the car whilst it was in a Ford dealership for a service.
After much ranting from me, the cheeky b'stards finally admitted that they'd taken them from my car to fit on another car that was sold and was being picked by a customer.
A pack of jelly babies out of my old nova, they left the £1k of stereo stuff alone! Cost me £30 to get a replacement door as they'd bent the passenger window frame out to get in.
A second hand steel bath. My brother in law is a builder and had a steel bath for me to put in my first house. Hot july day so we put it in the garden for 10mins to get a drink from the shop. The local metal pikeys took it by the time we returned...
A few years back, I had a new bathroom suite fitted. I was replacing an old suite in some sort of toxic yellow that had been there at least since the 70s and probably much longer.
The builders got the toilet out and into a skip. By the time they'd got the bath out, the throne had gone.
Who the hell would want a second-hand crapper in bronchitis yellow that's probably half a century old?! 😯
Windscreen wiper blades from a Skoda Octavia.
Old blades were getting a bit knackered so replaced them with a nice new pair of Bosch ones.
A few days later in town it was raining when I turned the car off so the wipers stayed in the up position instead of being safely out of the way below the bonnet.
Back in the car and noticed that the wipers were now crap. Somebody had nicked mine and replaced with their knackered ones.
Plastic hub cap from a Ford Ka (on load whilst mine was being repaired).
I was leaving a friend's flat in Salford, saw the chavvy little git with it in his hands. Legged it down the stairs (shouting like a women possessed) and he dropped it.
A well-used pair of flip-flops!
There's some great stories here....
The OP (I think) mentioned having an exhaust nicked....a girl I know from uni had this happen to her 1 litre Fiesta, the day after having a new exhaust fitted. Nothing suspicious there, hmmmm?!
She started it up in the morning & it was really loud so she turned it off & asked her boyfriend to come and have a look. He peered underneath & the whole exhaust from the manifold back was missing. They'd even left the bolts on the ground under the car....
My Dad was a black cabbie and had a really old radio hung in the front of the cab - one of those with a fake leather case that poppered around it. One night our Boxer was going nuts, barking at the door & we kept telling her to calm down & stop being silly - we peered out the front of the house a couple of times but didn't see anything. When my Dad out to the cab the next day, someone had broken into it and nicked the radio (perhaps understandable, although it was a wreck) as well as prying the rear view mirror out of the socket fixing, rendering it all but useless as a rear view mirror.
Last one - at uni one of the girls in the next hall to us went into the kitchen late at night & found blood all over the worktops & door. She panicked and called her mates who decided the logical thing that must have happened was that a murderer had broken into the halls & they were all in mortal danger, so all went back to one room. Eventually, they decided to go & have a snoop around so followed a trail of blood down two flights of stairs to the bath on the first floor (all floors had two shower rooms, apart from the first floor which had one shower room & one bath room). Inside they found a bloke in the bath passed out with blood everywhere, a family sized can of rice pudding and a knife.......turns out he was known to the Police as a serial thief who did it for the thrill. He'd broken into the halls, nicked the can of rice pudding & rather than look for a can opener he'd tried to stab the lid with a large kitchen knife. This had slipped & he'd badly cut his hand. After smearing the kitchen with blood for some reason he decided to hide in the bathroom until he could make good his escape but passed out through blood loss - I think it was lucky they found him when they did as he was in a bad way.....
Many years ago when I lived in Reading my housemate had her front wing taken off her Citreon Saxo one night. Turns out they're made of plastic and affixed with press-studs..
My rear number plate off my Golf a good few years ago. G786EKB if I remember rightly.
Got home from work one day to find the back door open, they'd taken a big jar full of coppers, about 20 quid at most, a VCR but not the remote (and this was a good few years after people stopped using videos), and my Les Paul guitar which was worth about a grand and a half.
Pacing around the garden on the phone to the police, I found the guitar leaning against a tree, but no trace of the other tat. There was a guitar shop across the road too.
Brilliant stories so heres mine.
Friend of a friend was burgled at a student house. Their stuff was so bad the thief left empty handed.
Commode chair
...the thieves left nothing to go on?
Just looked out the window and realised some chunt has nicked the rubber strips out of my Thule wingbars.
Just the 2 rear ones, the front ones are still there ( 4 bars on the van)
Friend of a friend was burgled at a student house. Their stuff was so bad the thief left empty handed.
That reminds me, a friend of mine had his student digs burgled. They stole all his CDs except for his Dannii Minogue collection... 😆
bike lock. From inside our underground carpark (with only employee access) at work. none of the unlocked bikes were touched.
My first car was stolen from a tube station, an ex-police panda car. Blue and white Allegro with rubber bungs on the roof from the Police sign. The Police found it two weeks later in Wembley, told us it appeared drivable. We went to collect it and it had no engine, seats, lights, steering wheel, wheels, doors etc etc...
My Aunt had the windscreen stolen from her old fiesta one night, insurance wouldnt pay out as it "isn't part of the car"
Some bugger nicked my workshoes from the changing rooms so I had the choice of wandering round the office with no shoes or where my sidis, made for an interesting opening for the interviews I had that day.
Recently when we were broken into they nicked a dyson hot cold air fan, really bloody annoyed by that, it arrived on Friday plugged in, used once and then nicked on the Sunday.
DT78, somebody's SIDIs have been nicked from the changing rooms at my work. Was it you, seeking revenge?
My Aunt had the windscreen stolen from her old fiesta one night, insurance wouldnt pay out as it "isn't part of the car"
We did that to a teacher at school - he didn't notice until it was a bit breezy driving down the road. We put it back though.
My then-girlfriend's flat got broken into when she was a student. Everything had been thrown around and most of the CDs were gone, but they left a £4000 saxophone. Also her jewellery box had been upturned, but no jewellery stolen, only the small plastic cards with holes in for storing ear-rings. The thief had actually removed the earrings and thrown them on the floor, and only stole the plastic cards.
Very odd.
I had my wash bag containing a (very used) toothbrush, maybe enough toothpaste to brush teeth three or four times and my (week old monthly) contact lenses swiped from a shower block at a campsite in the lakes.
I was very very cross about the contacts as i didn't have any alternative eyewear with me and had to get my glasses driven over to me by (equally cross) gf.
I now keep a set of glasses in the car.
[Edit] there may also have been a used roll-on deodorant in the bag. I doubt think that makes it better. It wasn't even a reasonable bag, just a big clear Ziploc
Someone stole a punctured inner tube and a very rusty specialized EMT multitool from the saddlepack on my commuter, but left the £10 note.
When I was 15 (1987),my two best friends and I camped out in my back garden. Finally went to sleep after wandering around our estate which was clearly inspired by images of bombed out Beirut in the 70's. I awoke whilst being dragged out of the tent feet first by my incredibly irate dad, who proceeded to give me a good hiding. My friends were nowhere to be seen. They had uprooted 10 conifer trees from a neighbour's garden and planted them in our garden,then made their way to the local bowling green to steal a 1ft square slice of turf from the centre. Seeing your neighbor digging up conifers in your garden whilst being dragged across wet grass by your feet, is one of the oddest things I've ever experienced. Not the oddest though.
Parked at Reading Festival a few years back, 1.0l Corsa,just another car in a huge car park came back 3 days later to find both wing mirrors gone, carefully and neatly removed.
Our apartment got robbed on holiday. They mostly took cash, but they also nicked some minidiscs (it was that long ago!), not all, just a few, including the Bee Gees...?! WTF?! Didn't take the portable Sony minidiscman or ghetto blaster!