Stupidest thing you've had stolen

[White Horse]

Mums cousin who is in his 80's has to have his legs bandaged a couple of times a day. The old soaked wet bandages are put in yellow bin bags and collected by a special truck. He has to leave them by the gate otherwise they don't get collected. The other week the district nurse left two bags by the gate 20 minutes later he looked out of the window and someone had nicked them .........

He saw the van that normally collects them turn up a couple of hours later.

 

[Sandyman]

Few years back I used to leave my trani on our hard-standing at the front of the house.
One night some toe-rag removed the rear screen and all the contents (typical plumbers van) to get access to the front seats. Must have taken him over an hour and all he nicked was a window handle.
The van wasn't even locked.

 

[simon barefoot]

I had someone nick the glass from both wing mirrors on my(the councils) transit. Another time someone stole the petrol from the jerrycan in the back of the truck. Just the petrol mind, they left the can...

 

[Achillesheel]

A friend had her car broken into, all that was stolen was one wellington boot.


Presumably the thief had to hop it......

 

[Blueboatman]

Brake blocks off an old push bike that I had paid 3 quid for. And they were well worn!

Canny chap used to leave his used engine oil in the new oil's container by the gate. Was always gone by the next day

 

[oldharry]

A few years back a woman in Southampton reported her handbag had been snatched in the local park. The Police understood why she seemed more amused than upset by it when they asked her what was in it? It was, she explained, an old one she used for removing her dogs poo..... and she was on the way home.

 

[mlines]

When I worked at Heathrow in the 1980's my friend had the Tachometer stolen from within his dashboard, this was a proper manufacturers Tacho installed with the speedo, not a pod on top.

Another guy had the radio stolen from his Mk1 Escort by tin-snipping around it (it was the metal dashboard escort)

Another guy had the bumper stolen from their Capri.

It was thought that the car park security people ran a second hand car parts business on the side.

 

[A1Sailor]

Garden fence blew down in a gale. 36 hours later a small galvanised football goal had disappeared from the garden - one goal only.

 

[Frankie-H]

Rather too many years ago, my ex wife was making her way to the post natal clinic, with the new baby in her pram. There was an open carrier hanging from the pram handle and on the top of this was her 'sample', in a half size whisky bottle. Yup you've guessed. We always wondered if was taken with soda or plain water.

 

[Rustyknight]

My partner worked a night shift at Yeovil Hospital once, and came out in the morning to find her car (a bog standard Mk3 Escort) gone.

The next day we had a call from the police, letting us know it had been dumped in Weymouth, so it had possibly been stolen just as a means of late night transport.

When we picked the car up, the steering loch and ignition had been smashed, but all that had been taken was my collection of Pink Floyd cassettes. My partners Brian Adams tapes were left behind.......

Even stranger, there was more petrol in the car when dumped than there was when it was taken.

 

[ffiill]

Avon dingys-twenty years apart but both were as old as the hills and had a habit of going down-only good for a quick run out to boat on mooring and return sometimes with a quick pump. They both tended to be left lying about precisly because they were worth very little.

 

[maby]

Personally, I've been fairly immune to theft, but some relatives of my wife, driving from Spain to England with their young baby did have a large hold-all stolen from the back of the car. They hoped that the thief enjoyed the dozen or so soiled nappies that were inside!

 

[LewB]

The sister of a girl at work lost her dog a few weeks ago, lost as in it had died - to get it to the dog cremitorium she had to cross London. She came up with the cunning plan of putting the dog in a bin bag and then in a suitcase (Labrador sized dog) and set off to the tube station. She was struggling to get it up the stairs and a kind chap offered to give her a hand. Puffing as he got to the top he asked what was in it, embarressed to say that it was a dead mutt, she said that she was transporting laptops accross london for her company, with that he picked up the case and sprinted off. Apparently she's still in tears about it. Had to laugh!

 

[DaveS]

The only time I've ever had anything pinched from a boat was the winter I kept my then Vivacity 20 in a shed at Port Edgar. An ancient and visibly disintegrating Campari inflatable dinghy was dragged out of the cockpit, leaving a blue slime trail to mark its removal route. I often wondered about just how long it would stay inflated if someone tried to use it...

 

[reginaldon]

When I was finishing college, prior to taking up a teaching post (I was 36 then), we took medicals & had to take 'samples' there was a raid on the bar for empties ; one girl was on her way to the medical centre with her sample in her basket with other gear, she found on arrival it had been lifted, we hoped the tea leaf enjoyed his drink.
So far, been fortunate with my boats.

 

[benjenbav]

I had an old Montego nicked once. Unfortunately I got it back the next day.

 

[Ron Dean]

Some years ago, travelling on an Italian corridor train, a guy brushed past me and took my wallet from the back pocket of my shorts.
I chased him down the platform and he tried unsuccessfully to vault over the exit gate.
He was still lying there as I reboarded the train and as the train was pulling out of the station, he was able to see me blowing him a kiss as we passed.
My wallet was in fact a cheap (almost empty) pipe tobacco pouch.

 

[Roberto]

Something I have seen stolen, was one of those coloured plastic boxes commercial fishermen use to transport fish and ice, and very handy they are indeed; they are usually marked with the name of the city fish market, which should be an embarassement for the thief though very often it is not

I saw one used by a Spanish boat with the writing (in English) "Stolen from XYZ fishing company"