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!
We had a containerised substation broken into for its copper but they also took the time to carefully unscrew and remove the fluorescent lights.
Another one....a few of us at work used to swim at lunchtime at the local pool. Used to lock stuff in locker, swim, shower then walk back to work.
So 1 day 2 of us went, i finished early so went back. 10 mins later work colleague walks in with just a coat on, nothing underneath, coat was not his. Turns out someone nicked all his kit from his locker and staff had lent him a coat.
Thieving scrotes also spent loads on his stolen credit card, this was refunded though.
I just returned to my van- parked on a public road at home- to find a wing mirror glass has been carefully removed and stolen! 👿
My car was broken into but only the knob off the gearstick was pinched.
My car was broken into but only the knob off the gearstick was pinched.
Knobbery! 😆
My mum and dad had a camel stool stolen from outside their front door.
Really useful as Surrey is chocked full of camels
A 40 cubic yard skip. Police asked how did I think it was taken, did they need specialist kit. 🙄
A bag of tripe, stolen from my motorbike pannier.
Presumably they hoped it might be lamb chops, or best steak.
I had the local metal collecting scumbags try to make off with a set of filing cabinets from the yard at work, I caught them and went so bat-shit mental they carried them back inside for me.
The we decided that we didn't need them after all. Left them outside the gate and they stayed there for 3 weeks til we got a letter from the council.
A pair of ball finials from our victorian garden gateposts. We still haven't been able to find suitable replacements, 13 years later
