People will Nick Anything

Dog Breath

Spent some of Saturday & Sunday cutting down a 6 metre long hedge in my front garden ready for digging out the roots. This left a tidy pile of branches etc on my front lawn.

Went to work today (Monday), and imagine my surprise when I got home to find that it was all gone !! Every last branch of it. WTF

We do have a garden refuse collection service, but it is every other Wednesday and it has to be put in the appropriate coloured wheelie bin, whereas this was just piled on the lawn.

But it's all gone. Not complaining as I would have had to have got rid of it all myself. But it's just totally bizarre.

(No Scouser jokes please)

fast as fupp

more likely birkenhead tip-rats that denizens of Gods own city.

Giant Jon

We once had a little Japanese Maple nicked from our front garden. It'd been there for months, then one day there was just a hole!

My neighbour also had some old wooden bench from his garden that he put out at the local bus stop for the elderly folks to sit on waiting for the buses that never come, and sure enough two days later that vanished...

There's just no shame anymore.

Ginjafro

Wow, Its not even near bonfire night!

Ands

When I was a student, our student house got burgled - the little scumbags nicked a tub of fairy cakes that my nan had baked me. (They also nicked the MFI TV trolley but didn't bother with the little TV that was standing on it.)

brucey72

My mate worked for the council and was laying new turf around a kids play area. Some blokes pulled up and said to him that he might as well put it straight onto the back of their van as they would be back for it later........................sure enough he turned up the next morning to find all the turf had gone.

hammerite

Ginjafro wrote:

Wow, Its not even near bonfire night!

Although dried out it could provide the perfect material for starting a fire and heating ones home.

iain_j

brucey72 you have no idea how much your avatar has just irritated me, trying to blow that spider off my screen

downfader

Someone chiselled part of our front wall off and had that, corner stone and some bricks once. We've had garden furniture and tools stolen from the shed too in the past.

Loads of stuff gets nicked at work too. Plates, cutlery, signs, wetfloor warning signs at that... they'll take it from a wet floor too.

GiantMike

I stole a woman's heart once. I made up for it by marrying her.

cathald

I keep leaving the wife outside the front gate but no one will take her

dilemna

Some one's rubbish is another man's treasure.

Aggieboy

Dog Breath wrote:

Spent some of Saturday & Sunday cutting down a 6 metre long hedge in my front garden ready for digging out the roots. This left a tidy pile of branches etc on my front lawn.

Went to work today (Monday), and imagine my surprise when I got home to find that it was all gone !! Every last branch of it. WTF

We do have a garden refuse collection service, but it is every other Wednesday and it has to be put in the appropriate coloured wheelie bin, whereas this was just piled on the lawn.

But it's all gone. Not complaining as I would have had to have got rid of it all myself. But it's just totally bizarre.

(No Scouser jokes please)

Have you noticed a few other weird things as well - the dog you had disappeared, the wife's dyed her hair etc? Yep, you're in the wrong house.

nolf

I left my bike locked up at the library the other day and some git nicked my skewers!
Special shiny anodised ones that I'd had for about a week.

What a git!

Anonymous

Some scrotes nicked the wooden bench from outside our house a few christmases ago. I don't mind really, but it was useful in the summer to annoy my snotty DM reading, faux wealthy neighbour with a rod up her bum, by sitting on it in the summer with a can of lager and singing songs with the kids.

beverick

Working at a local large hospital cured me of any surprise at what people will steal. All sorts of things, over and above what you'd usually expect, dissappeared including toilet seats, cubicle walls, hand driers, office doors, tables, chairs, carpets, endless bits of kit and equipment and a lawn mower. The two largest items to vanish were a floral display in the entrance to the main entrance (comprising five planters each one weighing substantially more than a tonne) and a mechanical hoist capable of lifing five tonnes.

Bob

taz3611

Nothing is sacred. Some people would nick the sugar out of your tea.

cee

we got burgled in a flat we used to live in...I managed to capture him and get the stuff back (the slly billy had left his methodone prescription in the back garden...i got him when he came back for it), which he had hidden in a bush round the corner....

but he took the weirdest things...

the list included...terramundi pot full of change (could understand that)
half empty bottles of perfume and aftershave (eh!)
my razor (eh!)
packets of batteries (eh!)

and other weird stuff....but left ps2, pc, tv, dvd player, hifi...all the valuable stuff basically...

rob_spedding

Someone nicked my shoelaces recently. Not making it up.

nwallace

A mate was burgled a while back, he was about to go on holiday to PEru so had a load of US Dollars sitting around with his passport.

They got some small bits round about the passport and US dollars but left them. They also had his computer out ready to nick but left it.

HonestAl

some pathetic turd keeps pinching the dustcaps off of my car wheels while it's parked on my drive. Just to see how keen the sad bastard is, I tightened some on with a pair of pliers, no way I could undo them with fingers alone but a couple of weeks later they were gone.

sicknote

If you ever go to a 99p store, you will see that people have nicked stuff from there and also Lidli's and Alidi's :shock: :roll:

Infamous

I stole a woman's heart once, I keep it in a shoe box under my bed.

Richie63

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Firecrakka

I had a slab of blue stone we removed from the base of a fireplace stolen from the front verandah one night. The thing must have weighed in at over 600Lbs. It was directly under the bedroom window. No idea how they got it up and out the gate without waking me up.

tlw1

had a shower cover for my old Elise for when you couldn't be bothered to put the roof up - that got stolen!

morstar

back in the early 80's my raleigh arena was locked up in the school bike shed with a pretty common cable lock. The sort that you wouldn't bother with these days.

At the end of the day, the bike was still there, unmoved and the lock was nowhere to be seen.

Off topic, but related to this is a tale a friend told me last night. His sons bike lock had the key sheared off it whilst in his schools bike shed. Dad turns up un-announced, suited and booted around 9:30 and makes his way to the bike shed. Once there, he sets about his work of resolving the boken lock issue.

Need l carry on???

Anyway, teacher turns up after 10 minutes and uses his best intimidating voice to ask, "and exactly what do you think you're doing", the faltering reply comes back that it is his sons bike. This is met with a demand to prove it and the information that the police are on their way.


The best bit is that he was made to go the the head teachers office.

Ands

I used to be part of the technical team setting up at pharmaceutical conferences. These were always well-attended by medicals professionals from around the world. It always amazed me how light-fingered people were. I watched one time as a medical professional carrying a pile of folders looked around her to see if anyone was watching, put her folders down on the nice, branded, corporate mouse mat, then relifted the folders complete with mouse mat underneath. Unfortunately for her, the mouse mat had a cable router on it so she ended up pulling the mat, the mouse and the laptop across the counter. Very funny.