I remember I once lost £1530 about $3060 to a conman and he said he would give me twice what I had given him but of course he didn’t and someone said that because I had given him the money he hadn’t committed any offence.
Just wondering about you.
And what has happened out there.
This seems to prove people can take money from people under false pretences and it’s not fraud and so does anyone know anything about the law here well actually? Anyway I could have something in the law so that I could get it all back now then?
I’ve hired some pretty worthless, shady lawyers in the past, does that count? 
A marijuana addict ex-friend of mine stole some videogames from me
A burglar once stole a laptop from my house. I was a victim in a hit-and-run accident. I had a car that was damaged (twice) by someone trying to steal it. I’ve also been the victim of car break-ins.
I was on jury duty several years ago. We were given forms with a bunch of questions, one of which was whether we’d ever been the victim of a crime. I said, “Yes.” During the jury selection process, the judge asked people to clarify their answers. It turned out that many people who said “no” to this question actually had been crime victims. The judge said it was common for people to say they hadn’t been victims when they actually had. I don’t know whether people forget, or they think minor crimes aren’t worth considering, or they’re just lying.
they probably lie because it’s shameful to admit you’ve been victimized
I’d suggest you specify where you are - this is a US based message board, so most lawyers here would only know USA law. I assume you’re somewhere in the United Kingdom from your mention of £ but even then, as I’m sure you know, Northern Irish law is different from English law is different from Scottish law. I’d suggest you go find a local Citizens Advice Bureau to be honest.
And yes, I had my handbag stolen from my house, when my housemate and her partner were IN the house, which was so strange I still find it hard to believe it was stolen and not just misplaced. But it never turned up, even when we moved, so I guess it was.
And more annoyingly, last year, the day after Bonfire Night my wheelie bin full of rubbish was stolen. I never even found burnt out remnants of it in the local parks or wasteground - and why else would anyone steal a FULL bin?
(note to self - it’s that time of year, chain the bins together just in case)
Poor guy, he was probably under the evil grips of the Madness. Reefer Madness, that is. I’d feel sorry for him if I were you, he’s much more the victim here. 
Burglary, with breaking and entering.
Car window smashed and items stolen. Assaulted at work a few times.
My car was stolen in Baltimore in 1992.
Multiple burglaries. Had stuff from outside stolen overnight also.
I got mugged one night when out for a walk. Five of them and one of me. I managed to outrun three of them, and only had to deal with the youngest two. Fortunately, I survived, though bloodied.
Once that green monkey is on your back, it’s anything for a fix. He probably sold that game and bought a “roach” to shoot up.
Many times. The first was a few days after Christmas when I was a young girl. Someone stole the bike I’d received as a present.
My battery was stolen out of my car. A moped I owned was stolen. My lunch was taken from the work fridge more than once (I know it’s not a crime, but it should be!)
Yes, if you need to know and for polling purposes. But its not something I want to talk about now.
I’ve been molested. Groped.
When I was younger and naïve I believed it when my landlord said the other tenant, who worked for the landlord, needed keys to my apartment “just in case”. I’m pretty sure he stole some VHSs and stuff but more urgently, some of my underwear.
I’ve had sexy chemises stolen out of the public Laundromat twice. :eek:
I can’t remember others. I could see me being one of those people saying no, because you forget the minor things, or you try to forget them.
Ivylad has a beer bottle broken across his face by two men pissed off he wouldn’t let them in the apartment complex.
Some guy (who said I took his parking spot, but I didn’t) put sugar in my gas tank.
Knock on wood, that’s the worst of it.
I was once attacked from behind on the street by a guy with a long crime history of attacking and raping women. I subdued him with a punch to the mouth (I was aiming for his nose), and then ended up on top of him banging his head into the ground until the cops came.
I once subdued a male dog who attacked me by kneeing him in the balls. The owner was furious, particularly when the police told him it was self-defense, and sited him for not having the dog on a leash on public property (He was only on the sidewalk outside my house. Well, that’s public property).
Annie’s one tough cookie 
Burglary, mid 80s, took some jewelry and electronics. Car break-in early 90s, seems they started to take radio but were interrupted at some point. Check fraud early 90s, couple hundred.
When I was in high school my house (my parents’ house) got robbed while we were all out at the school play. It was traumatizing.
Really nearly everyone has committed a crime in their lifetime. When you take into account the numerous laws that are created annually; the laws already placed under regulation; the diversity of each law; and foreign laws or laws unique to a specific region; and the lack of the knowledge laws in impoverished areas, then it would be ignorant not to think a person could break a law once (even if just for the simple fact of not knowing they were doing so).