Most sentimental value: a cashmere coat my mom bought for herself in 1949–the year she graduated from college. Some bastard that I worked with stole it.
Most expensive: about 70 CDs out of my car
Most annoying: cell phone out of my car–it took a few hours before those sonsofbitches at ATT turned off the phone so I called some of the numbers when I got the next phone bill and told the people who answered that they’re friends with a goddamned thief.
Weirdest: this happened today: 3 packets of instant oatmeal out of my desk drawer at work.
Well, I had a large bag of recylables on my back porch once, and those got stolen. Not so weird when you realize that you get $.10 per can or bottle in Michigan.
We had our house burgled on my birthday, just as we were moving in. We had stuff everywhere as we were still unpacking. It’s a wonder the thieves didn’t break a leg. The beauty of it was, they stole my TV, and it was an AWFUL TV. When we bought it, we didn’t realize that it wasn’t cable-ready. To make it work, you had to set it up in this complicated counterintuitive way and you had to have the instructions to figure it out. They didn’t take the instructions (of course) so someone got awfully frustrated.
This year someone broke into my husband’s car and took his radar detector. It too was a piece of crap and we hadn’t used it in 5 years.
I hope I am not jinxing myself to reply to this thread, but the only thing of any value that was ever stolen from me was my ten-speed bike that I had when I was about 14-15. My parents’ homeowner’s insurance covered it, though.
someone stole the hubcaps off my 84 chevette
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hub caps…
thjey attempted to break in,but didnt, so they were obviously really stupid cuz even I can break in
so they took my hubcaps instead
theyre worth NOTHING
but it still pissed me off, cuz my car looked all ugly :I
fuckin amatuers
We once had a breakin in my fathers house, they stole his knife collection and of my stuff they took a bag of candy…
To get to school, I used to drive a moped to the train station and then take a train from there. One day my moped was gone when I returned… I cursed a lot and took my bike the next day - when I returned the bike was stolen too.
6 months after I bought a new moped - had it for 4 months, then it was stolen - at the same train station.
I spent last Christmas night at my parent’s house. When I got back some kind person full off Christmas spirit had decided to help themselves to my children’s Christmas money (£70 - which I should never have left in the first place but with it being Christmas and all I just forgot about it) and our video. They’d also filled a plastic bag full of the kid’s sweets, ice cream and a broken camera that I’d never got round to throwing out, but left it in the kitchen.
My car got broken into, once. They tried to start it with a screwdriver, but the ignition had to be welded in the week before. So, they didn’t get the car.
They sure as hell stole the FACTORY STEREO, though. Out of a '93 Ford Escort. Whoah buddy, are you sure you can handle the power of a factory stereo? They also stole my tape collection. I had one of those big wooden tape cases that holds 100 tapes. It was hidden in the back seat, and they took it. I got the insurance money, and put a nice Alpine stereo in.
When I lived with my boyfriend’s hoodlum little brother, I lost:
6 movies, including one my boyfriend was in.
10 Playstation games
Money. Lots of it. A little at a time, though, so I wouldn’t notice it. I probably ended up losing about $500 living with him.
A pair of Doc Martins. Why they would steal these, I don’t know. All his friends were guys, and I bet my feet were a lot smaller than theirs.
I suppose we’ve been pretty lucky. Some of Mr2U’s tools have been stolen, and I had a couple CD’s disappear when some “friends of friends” have dropped by - my biggest losses involved ex husbands, though. Not random acts of shitheadedness in that a stranger stole something from me.
In fact, there have been a bunch of break ins in vehicles in the apartment complexes near us lately - we see at least 3 or 4 reports in the blotters daily. One morning we came out of the old house - BOTH vehicles doors were open - and NOTHING was missing. I swear, we could leave the keys, a gas card, a map to California and a big old sign saying “Have a great trip - write soon” on EITHER windshield and they’d still be sitting in the lot, just a’waitin’ for us.
In high school gym class, someone swiped my brand new sneakers during floor exercise class. (We had to leave our shoes along the wall during class)
Someone took off with my bike when I was living in Coronado - my own fault for not locking it, I guess.
Before my folks moved into their house, I went over and did some weed-pulling for them. While I was weeding in the front yard, someone entered the back door and left with a radio and my purse (which had about $100 in it - I was home on leave, so it was my traveling money)
Last year, someone took my kid’s bike at school. All told, we’ve been pretty lucky.
I had my digital camera and two phones stolen last week. One of the phones was a Korean rental and it cost me 400,000 won for a lost charge, about $320. So that sucked. I wouldn’t have minded losing the camera but then I had nothing to take pictures with while on vacation. These were taken from my hotel room, still no word on whether insurance will cover at all. At least it got me out of Sprint PCS!
I’ve had my car broken into twice, both times nothing of real value was lost. The first time they stole a blanket (which was in a pseudo leather case which maybe made it look valuable). The second time they stole a bag full of garbage; it was near Christmas so maybe they thought their were presents inside. Only bummer in both these cases was repairing the broken windows.
box o’ tapes (imagine their surprise at finding out they were air checks from the radio station)
HS graduation ring (this one hurts, still…)
Several checks cleverly picked off not-in-sequence from the back of my checkbook (only one did get through, they paid their utility bill with it… weird)
my parking space, repeatedly and frequently
Not directly stolen, but criminal action that cost me money:
attempted removal of car stereo, w. smashed window
burglary of the apartment in the back of the house; cost me some serious cash in beefing up security
I suppose I long ago paid off the karma from the porn magazine I 'lifted when I was 15 :o
A while back, I was in a “life transition” and renting a room out of a house, so much of my stuff was in storage at one of those u-sotre-it places. Well, someone broke the lock and must have had a truck becasue they got just about everything:
Aplliances: washer, dryer, some smaller items
All my SCUBA gear
Nice set of golf clubs
All my CDs
All my VHS tapes
All my stereo equipment, including a nice set of Klipsch Forte II speakers
Couch and chair
The insurance covered it (about 14K cash plus replacement of the CDs and movies off a list I provided), which was actually a blessing because I was about to move cross-country and I never would have gotten replacement value for the larger items trying to sell them. I STILL miss the dive gear and golf clubs, however. The theives also did not touch my books. If they had known the First Edition value of my collection, they would have!
A break-in to my apartment while I was on vacation netted someone a VCR, diamond engagement ring (I was waiting to give to my lovely “Kim”) and my government credit card which was used to rack up over $2000 worth of booty. Again, insurance came through (got a better quality and slightly larger diamond out of it), and of course, I was not responsible for the charges on the card.
Ruger 44 mag stolen out of my apartment locker (the ONLY reason it was in there was because I had a 9-year-old kid visiting). It was only out there a couple of days. I gave the police the serial number and they recovered it about 3 months later. So, I got it back!
Just last month I opened a bank account using my work address. The ATM card was sent and someone in my agency mailroom pilfered it. All they had to do then was wait for the PIN to show up in the mail a few days later. I didn’t realize the card was in action until I saw $1300 worth of ATM withdrawals on my account. The bank refunded that money.
Back in college my drunken roomate (and mind you, for me to call him drunken is quite a statement) moved out and took all my Dokken, Night Ranger, and Dio tapes (oh my god I’m dating myself).
Otherwise, the only other thing stolen from me is my self-respect by my former employer. However, I’m now bringing home more than he and take every opportunity to meet my old coworkers for lunch (and buy) so that I can offer to pick them up at the office.
I had a really nifty tricked out paintball gun,
i mean tricked out stock, sight, silencer, several barrels. I had it in a briefcase that I had got some foam and cut out the molds of the cylinder, and the gun, etc.
It was just the intimidation factor - kinda swagger into the paintball game cammo’s and mask in one hand - this briefcase in the other. put in the cases combo, pull out the gun and screw it together - Damn did the opposition pale a little
kinda cool
hehe - luckilly insurance paid for it -
but I can see some poor motorist or shop owner been held up in Johannesburg SA with my paintball gun - that pisses me off.
I’ve had my car plates stolen twice in the past MONTH! My car has been broken into and the steering column broken twice this year. The last time was just last week, and as I lost my job three weeks ago, I have no money to have it repaired.
The strangest thing I had stolen was towels. The person took them from the dryer in the apartment laundry room. They broke the lock, took my towels, and left the rest of the load, including the good sheets and a few washcloths. They actually picked through and JUST took the towels.
My first real, one on one date with Tiggamoo (we had been going out in groups with friends as we got to know each other) we went to the movies. I had a '91 Cavalier, not the world’s greatest car, but it was bright red and I had put a lot of money and effort into accessorizing it and turning it into a decent ride. We came out of the movies to discover someone had stolen my blacked out headlight covers. I’m still proud of myself for not flying into the usual cursing fit I would have in that situation. I was so excited about being with her I just laughed about it. I don’t still have the car, but we’re getting married next year, so alls well that ends well.
I picked it up at a garage sale for $0.50, someone else then picked it up for free.
Someone stole the CD player from my car. Thing is, it was the CHEAPEST CD player made at the time. The metal on the doors below the locks was bent on 3 DOORS! Idiots thought you could bend the metal back, stick a screwdriver in and pop the lock…JUST LIKE ON TV! They finally got in by breaking a window. $1200 damage for a used $200 unit.
A couple weeks later I spot 4 hoods, three gazing into the car, the fourth a watchout! FUCK! I ran out there, and as soon as I hit the door, they try to walk away as if they’d just been minding their own business. “'Sup,” one says to me. “'Sup, indeed!” I wished I’d said. I ran back up and called the cops.
There was this time in December 2000 that my family was eating lunch at a Chinese restaurant, and had parked in an underground parking lot. While we were eating, someone broke into the van and stole all our stuff. Among the items stolen were:
[ul]
[li]Bibles[/li][li]wallets with personal ID, library cards, money, etc. in them[/li][li]library books (both from the public library and the university library)[/li][li]binders[/li][li]various other books[/li][/ul]
Luckily, we got it back, because the people that stole these items were apparently just looking for money. Our stuff was dumped in back of a store, and there were church bulletins in among the bags. A store employee saw our stuff, found the church bulletins and phoned the church. So my parents got a phone call from the church clerk, saying that our stuff had been found.
Other than that, a bunch of money that people said they’d pay back, but didn’t.
They also stole my tape collection. I had one of those big wooden tape cases that holds 100 tapes. It was hidden in the back seat, and they took it. I got the insurance money, and put a nice Alpine stereo in.
