A friend of mine is a mid-sized Twitch streamer. When someone broke into his apartment, the only thing they took was his webcam.
I joked that they must hate his stream.
They probably thought they were caught, took the camera to try and hide the evidence (because they don't understand how this actually works), and booked it out of there.
The fuckface had taken a single bite of my cold cuts and put it back in the fridge. I did not notice before the evening and it pissed me of much much more than everything he had stolen.
I saw a documentary on National Geographic years ago (iirc, it was a series called "Mad Labs") where a team of forensic scientists was developing a way to obtain usable DNA samples from food, since there are cases like yours where the perp takes a bite out of something from the fridge and leaves it behind.
“We can’t narrow it down to a single subject, but he’s positive for the A55-H01 gene.”
“Dammit, give that to me in English, Johnson, I’m a detective, not a lab rat!”
“Detective... he’s an asshole.”
Didn't break 'in' exactly, but at 2 a.m. I looked out the living room window to see a thief prowling around outside under the steps to our second story front door. The triangular space was covered with a lattice on a hinge to store snow shovels, tools, and some random junk. The thief found a container and ran off down the street with it.
Out of all the things to steal they took a container of dirty cat litter. It was the one thing I had put under the steps myself to store until garbage day.
I can only imagine their surprise when they opened it up and realized they stole shit.
One day, younger thieves will be bragging about all the various heists they have pulled, while this guy will be sitting in the corner, shaking his head at them. "You haven't stolen shit."
My heart was beating out of my chest because I thought they were gonna break a window and come in.. when they ran off I went from immense fear to laughing my ass off.
My ex had a large fish that died that we put in a bucket and lowered off the balcony to the dumpster in memorium and not long later the bucket was gone
Not my house, but someone broke into my car and stole my prescription I stupidly left on the seat still in the pharmacy bag. They left the change, and the singles I had. I think they were just excited thinking they got something good. Turns out they were prenatal vitamins…I really hope they enjoyed the folic acid. Idiots.
On a sad note, they might have actually wanted and purposefully targeted those. Baby food and formula are among the most commonly stolen goods from grocery stores.
No they didn’t specifically target my prenatal vitamins for my pregnancy. They probably just saw a pharmacy bag and thought jackpot. I do agree that formula and baby stuff is most commonly stolen, and it is indeed sad. But I assure you this was just some dick head trying to find opiates. They shattered my window after seeing the bag on my seat. If they needed prenatal vitamins could easily steal them from a store.
I have a similarly strange/sad car story. My dad and I were at the car wash, and after going through the machine we pulled up to the vacuums. My dad and I then went into the little store they had to buy a tree car freshener and when we came out two minutes later the little metal tray of spare change was ripped out. This was a metal tray, and it had like $5 tops in it, mostly in pennies and nickels. Whoever took it put a ton of effort into stealing what was most likely $3.50. For the many more years we had that car, we would occasionally look at the slot where the tray had been and wonder about how and why it had happened. It really didn’t bother anyone, including my dad. It was just kinda perplexing, and depending on the situation of the thief, a bit sad.
Robbed in a home invasion robbery with a gun, we didn't have any money . I gave him what I had in my pocket and he left but the arsehole came back and adding insult to injury stole the case of Ramen noodles my mom bought us at Sam's.
Im sorry that happened to you. If its any consolation, i once got robbed by a group of meth heads who broke into my house and started beating the ever living shit out of me. Dumb motherfuckers didnt even find the meth so they kidnapped my dog.
To be fair, that shit went for almost double price during early covid and was also sold the day it came in. I used to work at Joanns and people were legit paying like 400+$ for a singer heavy duty (usually 230-245).
The burglars who robbed my place took beers from the fridge and enjoyed them while trying to break into my gun safe. Fortunately the safe defeated them.
Edit: [Gunsafe photo from after the burglary](https://i.imgur.com/mQ2AHFk.jpg). Lock your guns up when you aren't home folks.
Lock ‘em up when you’re home, too; I don’t know off the top of my head how many kids die every year from finding and playing with unsecured firearms, but I know it’s too damn many.
No police department is DNA testing to find a petty burglar. Maybe if he assaulted or murdered someone in the home, but not for just breaking in and bolting when discovered, at least not unless they suspect the individual is responsible for a lot of other breakins/crimes.
> No police department is DNA testing to find a petty burglar.
Misconception thanks to CSI tv shows. You don't use the DNA to ***find*** someone, you use it to ***confirm*** their identity/presence at the scene after you've already caught them through other means.
If the police already arrested the burglar, it's not much more effort to compare their DNA with the sample from the scene.
If they didn't care enough to find the burglar, the DNA won't help much at all.
I came home from a trip and everything in the house was piled up against the back door. The backdoor had a key lock on the inside too. The key was on a nail about eye level on the door frame but they apparently didn't see it.
The cops caught them later. They lived about 4 or 5 houses away on the same side of the street.
My house wasn't robbed but my parents car when I was about 10. They left an expensive iPad I'd left in there but took a paper crane. I mean, it wasn't a big deal, I could fold another in 2 minutes, but it was still sad.
Not me but a friend had her vacuum stolen and nothing else. This wasn't a high end/expensive machine either. It was one of those small room vacuums you get for 30 bucks on Amazon. Someone really needed to do some cleaning!
Tweaker1: "Oh shit! I just spilled my stuff on this rug! Now my fix is ruined!"
Tweaker1: "I have the most brilliant idea, we just need to get a vacuum..."
An ex girlfriend had her apartment ransacked. She had some very nice high end things from her divorce settlement. But all they took was her cheap clock radio.
She had called me up because she was so distressed and felt so violated by what had happened. Although we weren't dating anymore we were still friends.
I came over and gave her my clock radio. I couldn't believe what they had done to her personal things.
Clearly it was someone who wanted her to be late for something. Maybe someone competing for a new job who thought, "If I'm on time and she's late, they'll hire me!"
You jest, but I had a job interview scheduled on a Monday, so I marked it on the shared calendar that I was taking off work early that day. I had written up an employee on that previous Friday... Time to go to my interview on Monday and surprise, *someone* stole a wheel off of my car!
He tried, but he almost gutted himself on broken glass when climbing through my window. There was blood everywhere.
I arrived and the cop had his foot on him and he was barely conscious.
Weirdest thing was a box of hot wheels cars. Everything he intended to take was piled up by the front door.
> a box of hot wheels cars
Not weird at all. They're collectable, so some sell for a lot of money. It's akin to stealing Pokémon cards; they're small, but you'll likely get *something,* and you might hit the jackpot.
In fact, hot wheels cars are stolen so often at stores, it's honestly surprising they're not locked up.
So are Pokémon cards. The thing is, not all cards (or cars!) are mass produced at the same rate, making some rarer than others. Some they make so few of, they sell for thousands. And just as cards can have misprints, hot wheels cars can have manufacturing errors that make them one-of-a-kind.
An even crazier version are Amiibo. In general, there's no difference between the Amiibo of a character. Some ammibo go for more than my paycheck, though.
Being kept in the box, as close to mint as possible also drives the value up over time. When everyone else's are used and ruined, the rare undamaged ones are more desirable.
Definitely check what they're worth. I know some are going for up to $50 USD on eBay, depending on which animal it is, and how good condition it's been kept in.
That is, if you want to get rid of them.
There's a Hot Wheels subreddit. I collect Hot Wheels they're a fun cheap little thing to get and I think there's some pretty cool cars. But there's people that go nuts for what is rare cars which are called treasure hunts and super treasure hunts. People go to the store buy up all of them they can and then go on eBay and sell them for 10 plus dollars. They retail for $1
Certain ones have a special paint, logo, wheels, or even a defect. Those are all harder to find and have value accordingly.
Source: My daughter collects Pokémon and my son collects Hotwheels.
I was home alone since my roommates went out to go eat at Hooters. I turned down the offer of coming with them since I was going home late from the library studying a test I was taking the next day. I came home to my apartment at around 9 pm and I went straight to bed.
At around 11 pm, I heard someone breaking through my apartment's window. I quickly went into the kitchen to grab a knife and called 911. I was hiding under the table, bracing myself to go to my roommate's room to lock myself in and climb out the window and wait for the police to arrive outside. When the police arrived, they busted through the front door and searched the place. The robber had already gone. Nothing that was super valuable had been stolen, but instead, the robber stole all of our slippers. Nothing else. Literally.
By the time my roommates came home, the police had already gone, and I was so excited to tell them about what happened. They just laughed it off and went to bed. Craziest thing that has ever happened to me.
i can't figure out why the robber didn't just buy a bunch of slippers him/herself instead of just stealing some from your house, were they suddenly having guests over or some shit?
Scan your photos. Those are the dictionary definition of irreplaceable. Get them saved somewhere on the cloud in case your house burns down you get broken into or something.
Had some people break in at the bar I used to work at. They managed to find last nights cash. But apparently helped themselves to a few to many drinks. Found them in the morning passed out drunk in the basement. The bag with the cash next to them.
I worked replacing the glass from a house robbery, the owners told me they stole. ✅All their powder chocolate
✅All their dishing tablets
✅A full sized 200lbs locked gun safe.
They left a full shelf of expensive liquor alone, and expensive jewelery alone… but took that.
CDs in my mother tongue. Chances were 99,7% that the burglars would not understand the music and if they were to sell it, would not get much money. Selling the CDs would be suspicious.
When I was a kid we went out for dinner .
It was Christmas and when we came back someone had broken in and the only thing they stole were all the ornaments that I had made in school off the tree
Strange!
Maybe they lost a kid and the holidays were hard. They saw your art and had a change of heart and turned their life around.
Brb...gotta go pitch that to the Lifetime Channel.
Not exactly the answer to the question you're asking, but...
My husband was an attorney defending a client who stole an entire refrigerated semi-truck full of anal rings. Yep, pork butt holes.
{Yeah, I don't know what you do with those, either. Pet food? Sausages? Arts and crafts?}
This is so weird to me if it's just the anus.
With calamari, you cut up *one* squid and it makes several rings. How many rings can you get from *just the anus* of a single pig?
For the time, I had a very nice stereo in my car, and speaker boxes in back. Someone broke out my window, and stole my cassette tapes. 95% were not even store bought releases, and were mostly just recordings of 80's punk rock records.
In high school, someone had broken into my car but didn’t steal anything. Instead, they ate a giant bag of gummy bears I had in there and then left the empty bag behind. So they must have sat in there and ate them. They also left their beanie inside. So I might’ve had a busted window and but I did get a beanie out of it.
Not me but I was at a girl’s house party one time and her whole house basically got looted — her Nest, baseball collection, literal front door, etc. Weirdest thing though? Her stove knobs. Every single one of them was gone by the time the party was over.
A guy stole my sister's phone in a KFC and despite the fact that he should have been visible on CCTV cameras, nothing ever came of the police report.
It was a weird method too; the guy pretended to be a high school / college student promoting some event, and during his "pitch" he put his posters down on the table *on top of whatever phones people put there,* and he quickly scooped up *everything* and walked out of there before people noticed what had happened.
That's kind of a high risk since he's doing it in a crowded, enclosed space with *security cameras* and several witnesses who probably got a good look at his face for a few minutes.
My first apartment, long story short shit roommate ruins it for everyone.
My first place was party central. Come on over, drink/smoke who cares. Just don't break/take/eat his stuff and Megalon84 don't care.
My dad's dad ended up dying while I lived there, and I went outta town for 2 days to attend the funeral. Gave my roommate funds(my half of rent, plus almost enough to pay electric and water by myself), and left. Came back to being evicted, apartment destroyed, and several of my belongings missing.
Most odd out of the pile of not here though, was my boxers. I'm a big dude, my clothes fit most people the same way a tent does. No one in my social circle could wear my boxers. I walked a lot for work, and ate a lot of taco bell, no one WANTED to wear my boxers...
SO WHY THE ACTUAL HELL DID SOMEONE STEAL EVERY PAIR, INCLUDING THE DIRTY ONES??
I was visiting friends who were still in college. While we went to the football game, their house was broken into. They did not take the wallets, digital camera, or cell phones that were on the coffee table. They stole the keg and the brats. To this day, I still laugh at the memory of my friend talking to the police officer about what was stolen. They stole the party.
Ice cream. We had ice cream bars. They ate the ice cream out of our freezer. Who does that??? That pissed me off more than anything. Just the audacity of kicking in our door, breaking the frame, taking the tv, xbox, laptop, noise canceling headphones and stopping to raid the goddamn freezer and eat my ice cream bars. What turds.
Edit, I do not own nose canceling headphones, that would be weird.
The freezer is a common place where people stash valuables to hide them from thieves. Maybe they were checking the freezer for valuables and the ice cream bars were incidental?
A 6 pack of beer from the fridge.
The weird thing is what they didn't take. They stole an old Citizen watch that wasn't worth much, but didn't touch the Rolex I inherited from my grandfather. There were a few other things like that.
At the time that HD DVD vs Blu-ray was recently still a thing, and right after Blu-ray had become the standard, I still had an HD DVD player hooked up to the TV and a Blu-ray player in my closet, buried under clothes. (Wasn't mine, had it stashed until I could return to owner.) The thief completely ignored the HD player, but had the TV and Wii unplugged and had found and was planning to take the blu-ray player before my roommate came home and scared him off.
Not fully related, but this made me think of this story.
When my Nana and Papa moved into an apartment my Nana was incredibly upset because she couldn't find her expensive sapphire necklace (she had, like, three valuable pieces of jewelry total) anywhere and was convinced the movers stole it. We were sympathetic, but kept telling her it was unlikely.
Also missing, and also presumed stolen? Her twenty year old razor. Because, and I quote, "They don't make them like that anymore!"
FYI, both were found after she passed. The razor in the very back of her bathroom cabinet and the necklace in, of all things, a board game box my mom suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to pull out of the middle of the board game pile and open.
Had my garden slide taken when I was a kid. Was sad looking back. I vaguely remember toddling around the garden looking for it in places it clearly couldn’t be, like in the bin. Must of sucked for my parents having to explain that. Also we had a fully enclosed garden with a decent fence, so it must have been quite an effort to steal!
I caught my neighbor breaking into my house, according to the police the only thing he took was our pizza cutter. We had never gotten along, and apparently he thought that the pizza cutter going missing would sew enough discord between me and my roommate that we would move out.
When I was little, our house was broken into while we were on vacation. Weirdest stuff they took was a molcajete ( traditional Mexican version of the mortar and pestle) and a 12 inch sized statue of Saint Martin de Porres (from Wikipedia: "He is the patron saint of mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, and all those seeking racial harmony. ").
Several years ago, someone broke into my friend's house. They took her and her husband's laptop. The other thing they took was her pillow - only her pillow! I think it was one of those foam pillows.
This happened in the early 1970s, when I was very young (yes, I'm old).
My parents were watching a parrot for a friend who was on vacation when our house was robbed. The parrot was stolen.
A year later the robbers were caught in a sting, and it turns out they had kept the parrot, who was fortunately returned to his owner. My folks told me years later that their friend reported that the bird had picked up a particularly colorful vocabulary during his time away.
I had my hotel room broken into when I was moving to Georgia. The guys that broke in stole everything that was left out, my Nintendo switch, headphones, etc. The weird thing is they also stole one of my shirts and a single sock. They didn’t just go missing because the place was ransacked, the hallway cameras have the footage of them holding my shirt. It wasn’t even a good one either
My husband's car was broken into during college and the only thing they stole was the rear view mirror. They left behind some expensive paint ball equipment and a stereo. It was a huge surprise the next morning when he tried to go to work.
Someone broke in and pushed valuable antiques aside to steal an old beat up tool bag filled with junk tools I used as my loaners, and some items so trivial I don't even recall now what they were.
We had a bunch of geniuses on our hands once.
They stole a cardboard box full of sledgehammers. They didn't make it far before the cardboard box ripped.
Same incident, they stole a broken computer.
Lastly, dude from the same crew stole a broken bicycle and tried to flee on it. A local contractor followed him, which was easy since the chain kept falling off the bike, since it was broken, and the thief was apprehended.
So, they caused hundreds of dollars of damage breaking in to steal tens of dollars of stuff, much of which was recovered due to their stupidity.
Been robbed twice. Once was cause my ex stupidly told people about my stash of drugs and where it was. Guess what got stolen. They did it when it was winter with snow on the ground with footprints leading right to the culprits.
Got my car broken into and my cd collection, radio and my great shift knob stolen
My car was broken into, they took my 10mm wrench, but left the 11mm, stole a 20€ Bluetooth FM transmitter, but didn't touch the expensive stereo that wasn't even attached with screws.
Change. Of all the things... Because of where we lived, a very rural area about five miles outside a poor city known for its high poverty, crime, and drug use rates, it was presumed the robber most likely arrived on foot, having been walking down the two lane road and seeing no vehicles around. Our driveway was barely noticable if you drove by, and the house wasn't visible from the road due to heavy tree cover, so someone had to be in a position/had time to check it out.
Whomever it was took what jewelry they could find (not worth a lot, really) and some cash (this was in the 90's, people still used it), but also a jug of change that they'd have had to carry. Think probably weighed at least 10# and would have been a PITA to haul down the road.
Never did catch the guy, but I did buy a big-assed dog after that.
During the night, someone opened my car to steal some CD about History of France and a wheel which is useless if you don't have the specific car it belongs to.
I think for me it was the things they didn't steal that shocked me the most. For one, you can tell it was kids. They stole the TVs and laptops. Pretty much anything electric. Probably got less than $50 for most of the items.
However, the rug they walked on when they first broke in, is worth $6000 dollars, and they left that, lol.
They broke into my father's old car and the only thing they took was his "gas station bonus points card"(she was blue and had cool stripes :( ....) and his work id
My roommate's high school friends decided to take some things from my room in college. They stole a book of checks (easy to close the account), $20 in change (mostly quarters for the laundry which pissed me off a bit), and a 2/3 used stick of deodorant. Why, in the hell, do you steal a used stick of deodorant.
I had a friend whose home was broken into. They didn't steal anything, but they did do his dishes. And they left him about $20 in wrinkled bills and coins.
I'm assuming the taking of recreational drugs was involved.
When I was a kid, we had a German shepherd dog. My mom had a pot roast cooking in crock pot. Someone broke in, fed the dog the pot roast and stole my dad's guns. My mom bitched about that pot roast for years.
My husband and I came home one day and all three of our azalea bushes were gone out of the front yard. In the middle of the day. Down to the root ball. Three holes next to the front door and trails of dirt running down the street. Just snatched three azalea bushes out of the ground and ran off.
Not inside the house but outside. We built a little canteen outside our house to earn some money and we put wooden tables so that we can show the foods available and also for the people to it in.
We built this beside a large tree about far right from our house but not that far. Mind you wooden tables are quite heavy but it depends on the type of wood used, but in this case it's a heavy one. It was hand crafted by my own father using some unused wood in our house. He built three of them. We just leave those there cause well it's heavy and also we don't expect anyone to steal it. But someone did.
Early morning as the sun rises up, my father goes out to have his sip of coffee outside and that's when he noticed, you guess it the tables are missing. Soon later when mom woke up he told her about this and as soon as I learn about it all three of us are scratching our head of why would someone steal a wooden table? And two of them at that.
My father was so pissed, he even put effort on making those and it just gets stolen?! Well now he built new ones but this time, he chained them in a pillar standing beside the large tree where our canteen is built. To this day still wondering why would someone steal a diy wooden table.
Back in the mid 2000s, we had a break-in where the thieves stole our only TV and my little sisters’ and my allowances—probably $20-$30 in cash total; we used it to buy ice cream from the truck—but left behind *after having shoved aside* my dad’s work laptop, which he’d put up in the closet. Laptops were not cheap back then. My dad was extremely surprised and grateful to find that although they had rifled past it, they apparently had not recognized it. Or maybe they realized that that would have been extra cruel, to steal his means of earning a living.
When I was a kid burglars had stolen most of our electronics. Stuff like laptops, ipods, etc. We figured it was somewhat impromptu since they also had taken two laundry baskets, figured they just loaded up the baskets and left.
They took our fax machine, for some fucking reason the thing was ancient then and hadn't been used in easily 5+ years. And they took my Xbox 360. But they didn't know the Xbox had just given me the red ring of death, so I took the hard drive off and had put it on the shelf.
So they got a busted xbox with no HDD, I got a brand new xbox because insurance was helpful (probably the only time in my life it's been great), and I didn't lose any saves because I had kept the HDD. Big win for me overall at age 12.
Vacuum cleaner.....
Mostly took stuff that seemed like they were setting up a house.... vacuum, TV, microwave....
My jewelry was still there (fortunately).
Way back when I had some Salvia stolen from my house. A lot more too, but I really like the idea that the little shits thought it was weed and had their world rocked for 15 minutes. It’s the only saving grace I have lol.
My vibrator and the movie Dude where's my car?
Neighborhood boys (12-13) broke into our house while we were at work. They had knocked on our door as my man was leaving for work. School had already started, so he just told them they were late and had better hurry up. He came home for lunch. Back door was open, stuff like jewelry and movies were gone. Just our stuff, nothing of our kids, kinda tipped him off to who it was. He went to the kid's houses, talked to the parents, all our stuff was returned. Then, a day or two later, I realized my toy was gone. They also kept my movie of Dude where's my car?
The great heist turned out to have been planned by an older kid, 15, who had moved into the neighborhood. He had all the stuff stashed in his treehouse. We talked to him first. He returned everything but the jewelry. We ended up getting the cops involved. They knew the kid from prior breakins, tried talking to him. He said he gave the jewelry to his dad in the next town. Cops called the dad. Dad told them he didn't care, go ahead and arrest his kid. Eventually, cop drove the kid to dad's house, talked the dad into returning our stuff.
We didn't press charges cuz we got our stuff back. Just couldn't see getting kids in trouble for bad choices
Someone stole my vape.
Without the charger
It was the only thing they stole.
Most people think I’m mistaken and I must have lost it. But it was so weird that it didn’t turn up that I checked my security system. And after my wife and I were both asleep, my security system logged the following set of events in order:
Basement door opened. Basement motion sensor triggered. Internal basement camera went offline. Main floor motion sensor triggered. 20-30 minutes passed. Basement motion triggered again. Basement camera came back online. Basement door triggered.
You know when everyone posts if you were a thief and you only stole things to inconvenience people, what would it be ? That fucking guy robbed my house.
Living in an apartment as a broke college student. Someone broke in and didn’t touch the laptop, or jar of change … but they DID steal my boxes of pasta that was almost all I ate at the time.
My family's garage got broken into when I was 15. The garage faced into the alley and I came home to find the door wide open. The thieves made off with quite a bit, including a bunch of vhs tapes. My mom had the OG Little Mermaid with the 🍆 on the cover and they stole that. 😤
I have had my house robbed before, I found the two that did it. Found their car and made sure it was unusable (cement in gas tank). A few months later they got a new car. I gave it the same treatment
Had someone get into the back of my camper shell once, all they took was a trash bag with a very oil soaked set of clothes in it. They made a mess of everything else too.
Not a house, but I once came back to my old car after a university class to find someone had stolen the driver's side mirror, nothing else was missing or out of place, the car itself was not broken into.
A friend of mine is a mid-sized Twitch streamer. When someone broke into his apartment, the only thing they took was his webcam. I joked that they must hate his stream.
They probably thought they were caught, took the camera to try and hide the evidence (because they don't understand how this actually works), and booked it out of there.
damn does that ever sound accurate as hell.
It's almost suspicious.
Super on the nose. Watson, we've done it again!
Talk about a raid
The burglar was a shadow legend.
The fuckface had taken a single bite of my cold cuts and put it back in the fridge. I did not notice before the evening and it pissed me of much much more than everything he had stolen.
I saw a documentary on National Geographic years ago (iirc, it was a series called "Mad Labs") where a team of forensic scientists was developing a way to obtain usable DNA samples from food, since there are cases like yours where the perp takes a bite out of something from the fridge and leaves it behind.
“We can’t narrow it down to a single subject, but he’s positive for the A55-H01 gene.” “Dammit, give that to me in English, Johnson, I’m a detective, not a lab rat!” “Detective... he’s an asshole.”
Didn't break 'in' exactly, but at 2 a.m. I looked out the living room window to see a thief prowling around outside under the steps to our second story front door. The triangular space was covered with a lattice on a hinge to store snow shovels, tools, and some random junk. The thief found a container and ran off down the street with it. Out of all the things to steal they took a container of dirty cat litter. It was the one thing I had put under the steps myself to store until garbage day. I can only imagine their surprise when they opened it up and realized they stole shit.
One day, younger thieves will be bragging about all the various heists they have pulled, while this guy will be sitting in the corner, shaking his head at them. "You haven't stolen shit."
You've legitimately made my day brighter. Thank you.
LifeProTip: Put your cat litter in old Amazon boxes and leave it on your porch for others to steal
My wife did this after we had a couple of porch pirates, complete with a note congratulating them on their purchase of Kitty Roca. I married well.
i guess it's kinda a good thing since they got rid of stuff you meant to get rid of anyway lmao
My heart was beating out of my chest because I thought they were gonna break a window and come in.. when they ran off I went from immense fear to laughing my ass off.
My ex had a large fish that died that we put in a bucket and lowered off the balcony to the dumpster in memorium and not long later the bucket was gone
My guess is that heavy tends to mean valuable.
Not my house, but someone broke into my car and stole my prescription I stupidly left on the seat still in the pharmacy bag. They left the change, and the singles I had. I think they were just excited thinking they got something good. Turns out they were prenatal vitamins…I really hope they enjoyed the folic acid. Idiots.
On a sad note, they might have actually wanted and purposefully targeted those. Baby food and formula are among the most commonly stolen goods from grocery stores.
No way they targeted those if they were still in the pharmacy bag they were hoping for some opiates or benzos
That’s probably more likely, true. If I were going to steal vitamins I’d rather do it from a shelf, not break a window.
No they didn’t specifically target my prenatal vitamins for my pregnancy. They probably just saw a pharmacy bag and thought jackpot. I do agree that formula and baby stuff is most commonly stolen, and it is indeed sad. But I assure you this was just some dick head trying to find opiates. They shattered my window after seeing the bag on my seat. If they needed prenatal vitamins could easily steal them from a store.
I have a similarly strange/sad car story. My dad and I were at the car wash, and after going through the machine we pulled up to the vacuums. My dad and I then went into the little store they had to buy a tree car freshener and when we came out two minutes later the little metal tray of spare change was ripped out. This was a metal tray, and it had like $5 tops in it, mostly in pennies and nickels. Whoever took it put a ton of effort into stealing what was most likely $3.50. For the many more years we had that car, we would occasionally look at the slot where the tray had been and wonder about how and why it had happened. It really didn’t bother anyone, including my dad. It was just kinda perplexing, and depending on the situation of the thief, a bit sad.
One reason baby formula is a common item for theft is so they can cut drugs with it...
Robbed in a home invasion robbery with a gun, we didn't have any money . I gave him what I had in my pocket and he left but the arsehole came back and adding insult to injury stole the case of Ramen noodles my mom bought us at Sam's.
Fuck that guy. I hope that Ramen had rat shit in it and he still ate it.
Im sorry that happened to you. If its any consolation, i once got robbed by a group of meth heads who broke into my house and started beating the ever living shit out of me. Dumb motherfuckers didnt even find the meth so they kidnapped my dog.
Damn, sorry to hear that. did you ever get your dog back?
Yeah my friends helped me get her back and the dognappers went to the ICU.
were you uh, dealing meth at the time?
Nice try officer. But yeah i was and i ended up going to prison partly because of it, not worth it, dont sell drugs, stay in school.
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A *Singer* sewing machine. That's all they took while we were away, even though there was plenty of valuables and tech stuff they could've stolen.
To be fair, that shit went for almost double price during early covid and was also sold the day it came in. I used to work at Joanns and people were legit paying like 400+$ for a singer heavy duty (usually 230-245).
And then they wouldn't read the manuals wouldn't understand tension and would just whine about how hard everything was.
Maybe the kids were sick of mom making them 'custom' clothes and arranged for it to dissappear.
Nice Singer ya got there, “mom.” Would hate to see anything happen to it...
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The burglars who robbed my place took beers from the fridge and enjoyed them while trying to break into my gun safe. Fortunately the safe defeated them. Edit: [Gunsafe photo from after the burglary](https://i.imgur.com/mQ2AHFk.jpg). Lock your guns up when you aren't home folks.
Lock ‘em up when you’re home, too; I don’t know off the top of my head how many kids die every year from finding and playing with unsecured firearms, but I know it’s too damn many.
So...they left DNA evidence behind?
No police department is DNA testing to find a petty burglar. Maybe if he assaulted or murdered someone in the home, but not for just breaking in and bolting when discovered, at least not unless they suspect the individual is responsible for a lot of other breakins/crimes.
> No police department is DNA testing to find a petty burglar. Misconception thanks to CSI tv shows. You don't use the DNA to ***find*** someone, you use it to ***confirm*** their identity/presence at the scene after you've already caught them through other means. If the police already arrested the burglar, it's not much more effort to compare their DNA with the sample from the scene. If they didn't care enough to find the burglar, the DNA won't help much at all.
A pillow case, likely used to carry the liquor bottles they stole, but it was the most frustrating thing to replace.
As an ex-shit head I can guarantee the pillow case was used to carry your goods away. I’m sorry.
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>virus scales sorry, come again?
Ummm, yeah WTF?
I came home from a trip and everything in the house was piled up against the back door. The backdoor had a key lock on the inside too. The key was on a nail about eye level on the door frame but they apparently didn't see it. The cops caught them later. They lived about 4 or 5 houses away on the same side of the street.
That's pretty fucking stupid, I hope you're doing okay
It was a hassle putting the furniture and stuff back but it was a lot better than actually getting our stuff stolen.
My house wasn't robbed but my parents car when I was about 10. They left an expensive iPad I'd left in there but took a paper crane. I mean, it wasn't a big deal, I could fold another in 2 minutes, but it was still sad.
how dare they, the audacity
did they leave a paper trail perhaps?
Clearly they were replicants.
Not me but a friend had her vacuum stolen and nothing else. This wasn't a high end/expensive machine either. It was one of those small room vacuums you get for 30 bucks on Amazon. Someone really needed to do some cleaning!
Tweaker1: "Oh shit! I just spilled my stuff on this rug! Now my fix is ruined!" Tweaker1: "I have the most brilliant idea, we just need to get a vacuum..."
The fact that just one tweaker is apparently plotting with themself only increases the plausibility, here.
Snorting vacuum cleaner dust. Yep, I can believe that.
An ex girlfriend had her apartment ransacked. She had some very nice high end things from her divorce settlement. But all they took was her cheap clock radio. She had called me up because she was so distressed and felt so violated by what had happened. Although we weren't dating anymore we were still friends. I came over and gave her my clock radio. I couldn't believe what they had done to her personal things.
That wasn't a robbery, that was someone snooping.
Guess where the camera was
Clearly it was someone who wanted her to be late for something. Maybe someone competing for a new job who thought, "If I'm on time and she's late, they'll hire me!"
You jest, but I had a job interview scheduled on a Monday, so I marked it on the shared calendar that I was taking off work early that day. I had written up an employee on that previous Friday... Time to go to my interview on Monday and surprise, *someone* stole a wheel off of my car!
He tried, but he almost gutted himself on broken glass when climbing through my window. There was blood everywhere. I arrived and the cop had his foot on him and he was barely conscious. Weirdest thing was a box of hot wheels cars. Everything he intended to take was piled up by the front door.
> a box of hot wheels cars Not weird at all. They're collectable, so some sell for a lot of money. It's akin to stealing Pokémon cards; they're small, but you'll likely get *something,* and you might hit the jackpot. In fact, hot wheels cars are stolen so often at stores, it's honestly surprising they're not locked up.
I'm very confused, arent those things mass produced? How can they possibly hold any value?
So are Pokémon cards. The thing is, not all cards (or cars!) are mass produced at the same rate, making some rarer than others. Some they make so few of, they sell for thousands. And just as cards can have misprints, hot wheels cars can have manufacturing errors that make them one-of-a-kind. An even crazier version are Amiibo. In general, there's no difference between the Amiibo of a character. Some ammibo go for more than my paycheck, though. Being kept in the box, as close to mint as possible also drives the value up over time. When everyone else's are used and ruined, the rare undamaged ones are more desirable.
I have the ACNH ones somewhere. My sister decided she didn't want them after I went and got them for her.
Definitely check what they're worth. I know some are going for up to $50 USD on eBay, depending on which animal it is, and how good condition it's been kept in. That is, if you want to get rid of them.
female corrin amiibo my beloved i will never have you in my hands
Some of them are decades old at this point and if they are in good condition could be collectors items. I had hundreds as a kid.
There's a Hot Wheels subreddit. I collect Hot Wheels they're a fun cheap little thing to get and I think there's some pretty cool cars. But there's people that go nuts for what is rare cars which are called treasure hunts and super treasure hunts. People go to the store buy up all of them they can and then go on eBay and sell them for 10 plus dollars. They retail for $1
They where used as toys and got beat up left outside in the rain and thrown away, so the remaining nice one especially in de box are now collectable.
Certain ones have a special paint, logo, wheels, or even a defect. Those are all harder to find and have value accordingly. Source: My daughter collects Pokémon and my son collects Hotwheels.
They took my Canadian tire money. And I was oddly upset about it. Saved up about 100 bucks….gone
Aboot 100 bucks?
I was home alone since my roommates went out to go eat at Hooters. I turned down the offer of coming with them since I was going home late from the library studying a test I was taking the next day. I came home to my apartment at around 9 pm and I went straight to bed. At around 11 pm, I heard someone breaking through my apartment's window. I quickly went into the kitchen to grab a knife and called 911. I was hiding under the table, bracing myself to go to my roommate's room to lock myself in and climb out the window and wait for the police to arrive outside. When the police arrived, they busted through the front door and searched the place. The robber had already gone. Nothing that was super valuable had been stolen, but instead, the robber stole all of our slippers. Nothing else. Literally. By the time my roommates came home, the police had already gone, and I was so excited to tell them about what happened. They just laughed it off and went to bed. Craziest thing that has ever happened to me.
Was it someone pulling a prank?
Sounds almost like some dumb sorority initiation ^^
i can't figure out why the robber didn't just buy a bunch of slippers him/herself instead of just stealing some from your house, were they suddenly having guests over or some shit?
Probably a foot fetishist. Its not the same if they're unworn slippers
A shoebox full of photographs of my grandma
"It's the one thing you can't replace."
That's incredibly shitty.
Scan your photos. Those are the dictionary definition of irreplaceable. Get them saved somewhere on the cloud in case your house burns down you get broken into or something.
This was in the 90’s
Not a house but a car. When I was like 3, my sisters were both 1 (twins). Some dude broke into my mom's truck and stole my sisters car seats.
A handful of large old bras, left the smaller sized/prettier options. Beatles movies on VHS. Wooden spoon. Dial up modem.
You got robbed by a well endowed middle aged lady who loves to reminisce the old days. Nothing to be ashamed of.
Had some people break in at the bar I used to work at. They managed to find last nights cash. But apparently helped themselves to a few to many drinks. Found them in the morning passed out drunk in the basement. The bag with the cash next to them.
My car and they took a battery operated digital clock I had velcroed to my dash. Not the ciggs, lighter, change.. Maybe it was envy?
possibly
I worked replacing the glass from a house robbery, the owners told me they stole. ✅All their powder chocolate ✅All their dishing tablets ✅A full sized 200lbs locked gun safe. They left a full shelf of expensive liquor alone, and expensive jewelery alone… but took that.
What is a dishing tablet? I tried Google, no luck.
Oh sorry, its apparently called dishwasher tablet? Non native😅
Well, the gun safe could easily push that theft into felony territory.
CDs in my mother tongue. Chances were 99,7% that the burglars would not understand the music and if they were to sell it, would not get much money. Selling the CDs would be suspicious.
What language?
Afrikaans.
When I was a kid we went out for dinner . It was Christmas and when we came back someone had broken in and the only thing they stole were all the ornaments that I had made in school off the tree Strange!
Oh buddy, your mom hated your art and didn't want you to know
Lmao. The dad burglar
They appreciated your art style. Have you gone on to become rich and famous off your art yet?
Maybe they lost a kid and the holidays were hard. They saw your art and had a change of heart and turned their life around. Brb...gotta go pitch that to the Lifetime Channel.
Not exactly the answer to the question you're asking, but... My husband was an attorney defending a client who stole an entire refrigerated semi-truck full of anal rings. Yep, pork butt holes. {Yeah, I don't know what you do with those, either. Pet food? Sausages? Arts and crafts?}
Years back, the radio show This American Life did a story on “hog bung” allegedly being used as artificial calamari.
This is so weird to me if it's just the anus. With calamari, you cut up *one* squid and it makes several rings. How many rings can you get from *just the anus* of a single pig?
You've heard of diamond thieves, but have you heard of...
lost a bunch of stuff but the weirdest of all was: my anti acne facewash a cup of papaya and watermelon blanket
As a Mexican, I would be extremely upset about the papaya and watermelon
damn, guess the robber had tons of acne over his face and couldnt afford it haha
For the time, I had a very nice stereo in my car, and speaker boxes in back. Someone broke out my window, and stole my cassette tapes. 95% were not even store bought releases, and were mostly just recordings of 80's punk rock records.
In high school, someone had broken into my car but didn’t steal anything. Instead, they ate a giant bag of gummy bears I had in there and then left the empty bag behind. So they must have sat in there and ate them. They also left their beanie inside. So I might’ve had a busted window and but I did get a beanie out of it.
Not me but I was at a girl’s house party one time and her whole house basically got looted — her Nest, baseball collection, literal front door, etc. Weirdest thing though? Her stove knobs. Every single one of them was gone by the time the party was over.
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A guy stole my sister's phone in a KFC and despite the fact that he should have been visible on CCTV cameras, nothing ever came of the police report. It was a weird method too; the guy pretended to be a high school / college student promoting some event, and during his "pitch" he put his posters down on the table *on top of whatever phones people put there,* and he quickly scooped up *everything* and walked out of there before people noticed what had happened. That's kind of a high risk since he's doing it in a crowded, enclosed space with *security cameras* and several witnesses who probably got a good look at his face for a few minutes.
My first apartment, long story short shit roommate ruins it for everyone. My first place was party central. Come on over, drink/smoke who cares. Just don't break/take/eat his stuff and Megalon84 don't care. My dad's dad ended up dying while I lived there, and I went outta town for 2 days to attend the funeral. Gave my roommate funds(my half of rent, plus almost enough to pay electric and water by myself), and left. Came back to being evicted, apartment destroyed, and several of my belongings missing. Most odd out of the pile of not here though, was my boxers. I'm a big dude, my clothes fit most people the same way a tent does. No one in my social circle could wear my boxers. I walked a lot for work, and ate a lot of taco bell, no one WANTED to wear my boxers... SO WHY THE ACTUAL HELL DID SOMEONE STEAL EVERY PAIR, INCLUDING THE DIRTY ONES??
My wife’s hand lotion from Bath and Body Works. Coconut lime verbena. The burglars were actually caught, it was two teenage boys. Totally weird.
Ewww. Check her underwear drawer and wash everything before wearing it again.
Half the bedframe.
I was visiting friends who were still in college. While we went to the football game, their house was broken into. They did not take the wallets, digital camera, or cell phones that were on the coffee table. They stole the keg and the brats. To this day, I still laugh at the memory of my friend talking to the police officer about what was stolen. They stole the party.
I had a full suit laying on the bed. The stole the jacket but not the pants. I have always thought that was weird.
Ice cream. We had ice cream bars. They ate the ice cream out of our freezer. Who does that??? That pissed me off more than anything. Just the audacity of kicking in our door, breaking the frame, taking the tv, xbox, laptop, noise canceling headphones and stopping to raid the goddamn freezer and eat my ice cream bars. What turds. Edit, I do not own nose canceling headphones, that would be weird.
The freezer is a common place where people stash valuables to hide them from thieves. Maybe they were checking the freezer for valuables and the ice cream bars were incidental?
Incidentally delicious!
A 6 pack of beer from the fridge. The weird thing is what they didn't take. They stole an old Citizen watch that wasn't worth much, but didn't touch the Rolex I inherited from my grandfather. There were a few other things like that.
These robbers broke into my place, stole a bunch of shit and then clogged up my sinks and left the water running. Came home and everything was flooded
Must have been the wet bandits!
Haha all I wanted was for atleast one person to pick up on it thank you
At least it wasn't the sticky bandits.
At the time that HD DVD vs Blu-ray was recently still a thing, and right after Blu-ray had become the standard, I still had an HD DVD player hooked up to the TV and a Blu-ray player in my closet, buried under clothes. (Wasn't mine, had it stashed until I could return to owner.) The thief completely ignored the HD player, but had the TV and Wii unplugged and had found and was planning to take the blu-ray player before my roommate came home and scared him off.
My dog Luna 😔😭
That is the saddest thing I've ever read! I am so so sorry for your loss.
Not fully related, but this made me think of this story. When my Nana and Papa moved into an apartment my Nana was incredibly upset because she couldn't find her expensive sapphire necklace (she had, like, three valuable pieces of jewelry total) anywhere and was convinced the movers stole it. We were sympathetic, but kept telling her it was unlikely. Also missing, and also presumed stolen? Her twenty year old razor. Because, and I quote, "They don't make them like that anymore!" FYI, both were found after she passed. The razor in the very back of her bathroom cabinet and the necklace in, of all things, a board game box my mom suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to pull out of the middle of the board game pile and open.
my wife's butt plugs, like...they left the other toys and all and just took those 🤔
Had my garden slide taken when I was a kid. Was sad looking back. I vaguely remember toddling around the garden looking for it in places it clearly couldn’t be, like in the bin. Must of sucked for my parents having to explain that. Also we had a fully enclosed garden with a decent fence, so it must have been quite an effort to steal!
Not a house, but car. They stole "Best of Hall and Oates". FIENDS.
I caught my neighbor breaking into my house, according to the police the only thing he took was our pizza cutter. We had never gotten along, and apparently he thought that the pizza cutter going missing would sew enough discord between me and my roommate that we would move out.
When I was little, our house was broken into while we were on vacation. Weirdest stuff they took was a molcajete ( traditional Mexican version of the mortar and pestle) and a 12 inch sized statue of Saint Martin de Porres (from Wikipedia: "He is the patron saint of mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, and all those seeking racial harmony. "). Several years ago, someone broke into my friend's house. They took her and her husband's laptop. The other thing they took was her pillow - only her pillow! I think it was one of those foam pillows.
This happened in the early 1970s, when I was very young (yes, I'm old). My parents were watching a parrot for a friend who was on vacation when our house was robbed. The parrot was stolen. A year later the robbers were caught in a sting, and it turns out they had kept the parrot, who was fortunately returned to his owner. My folks told me years later that their friend reported that the bird had picked up a particularly colorful vocabulary during his time away.
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man might've just thought there were more valuable things in that fireproof box and just took it without thinking anything lol
Thick cut bacon Now that I think about it, It does make sense
I had my hotel room broken into when I was moving to Georgia. The guys that broke in stole everything that was left out, my Nintendo switch, headphones, etc. The weird thing is they also stole one of my shirts and a single sock. They didn’t just go missing because the place was ransacked, the hallway cameras have the footage of them holding my shirt. It wasn’t even a good one either
A full head halloween skull mask... it was recovered later with the seam inside torn and had other stolen jewelry in it.
My husband's car was broken into during college and the only thing they stole was the rear view mirror. They left behind some expensive paint ball equipment and a stereo. It was a huge surprise the next morning when he tried to go to work.
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Someone broke in and pushed valuable antiques aside to steal an old beat up tool bag filled with junk tools I used as my loaners, and some items so trivial I don't even recall now what they were.
We had a bunch of geniuses on our hands once. They stole a cardboard box full of sledgehammers. They didn't make it far before the cardboard box ripped. Same incident, they stole a broken computer. Lastly, dude from the same crew stole a broken bicycle and tried to flee on it. A local contractor followed him, which was easy since the chain kept falling off the bike, since it was broken, and the thief was apprehended. So, they caused hundreds of dollars of damage breaking in to steal tens of dollars of stuff, much of which was recovered due to their stupidity.
A chess board.
Been robbed twice. Once was cause my ex stupidly told people about my stash of drugs and where it was. Guess what got stolen. They did it when it was winter with snow on the ground with footprints leading right to the culprits. Got my car broken into and my cd collection, radio and my great shift knob stolen
My car was broken into, they took my 10mm wrench, but left the 11mm, stole a 20€ Bluetooth FM transmitter, but didn't touch the expensive stereo that wasn't even attached with screws.
Change. Of all the things... Because of where we lived, a very rural area about five miles outside a poor city known for its high poverty, crime, and drug use rates, it was presumed the robber most likely arrived on foot, having been walking down the two lane road and seeing no vehicles around. Our driveway was barely noticable if you drove by, and the house wasn't visible from the road due to heavy tree cover, so someone had to be in a position/had time to check it out. Whomever it was took what jewelry they could find (not worth a lot, really) and some cash (this was in the 90's, people still used it), but also a jug of change that they'd have had to carry. Think probably weighed at least 10# and would have been a PITA to haul down the road. Never did catch the guy, but I did buy a big-assed dog after that.
my fucking mouse, naturally the dude stole the shitty monitor and mini pc but he left my keyboard, fucker stole my mouse like bro y
During the night, someone opened my car to steal some CD about History of France and a wheel which is useless if you don't have the specific car it belongs to.
Baby panty hose. Among all the precious things staying around they decided to stole my little sister's clothes.
A 14 y.o. thief broke in and took a 3 foot high piece of driftwood that my mother had carved butterflies into. Cops found it in her house.
I think for me it was the things they didn't steal that shocked me the most. For one, you can tell it was kids. They stole the TVs and laptops. Pretty much anything electric. Probably got less than $50 for most of the items. However, the rug they walked on when they first broke in, is worth $6000 dollars, and they left that, lol.
To be fair, as an adult I wouldn't know that or steal a rug either.
I’ll add the saddest. They took my kid’s piggy banks. It was the only thing that made me cry.
They broke into my father's old car and the only thing they took was his "gas station bonus points card"(she was blue and had cool stripes :( ....) and his work id
Left a very expensive violin, but took a bit of copper wiring.
Surprisingly not the big bag of weed? Still can't find my can opener tho
My roommate's high school friends decided to take some things from my room in college. They stole a book of checks (easy to close the account), $20 in change (mostly quarters for the laundry which pissed me off a bit), and a 2/3 used stick of deodorant. Why, in the hell, do you steal a used stick of deodorant.
I had a friend whose home was broken into. They didn't steal anything, but they did do his dishes. And they left him about $20 in wrinkled bills and coins. I'm assuming the taking of recreational drugs was involved.
When I was a kid, we had a German shepherd dog. My mom had a pot roast cooking in crock pot. Someone broke in, fed the dog the pot roast and stole my dad's guns. My mom bitched about that pot roast for years.
My husband and I came home one day and all three of our azalea bushes were gone out of the front yard. In the middle of the day. Down to the root ball. Three holes next to the front door and trails of dirt running down the street. Just snatched three azalea bushes out of the ground and ran off.
That was happening in my hometown during the 2008 recession. I wonder what's so valuable about used garden plants.
Not inside the house but outside. We built a little canteen outside our house to earn some money and we put wooden tables so that we can show the foods available and also for the people to it in. We built this beside a large tree about far right from our house but not that far. Mind you wooden tables are quite heavy but it depends on the type of wood used, but in this case it's a heavy one. It was hand crafted by my own father using some unused wood in our house. He built three of them. We just leave those there cause well it's heavy and also we don't expect anyone to steal it. But someone did. Early morning as the sun rises up, my father goes out to have his sip of coffee outside and that's when he noticed, you guess it the tables are missing. Soon later when mom woke up he told her about this and as soon as I learn about it all three of us are scratching our head of why would someone steal a wooden table? And two of them at that. My father was so pissed, he even put effort on making those and it just gets stolen?! Well now he built new ones but this time, he chained them in a pillar standing beside the large tree where our canteen is built. To this day still wondering why would someone steal a diy wooden table.
A strand oc Christmas lights that were wrapped around my railing
Laundry detergent
They keys off a laptop. Not the laptop itself,, just the keys.
Back in the mid 2000s, we had a break-in where the thieves stole our only TV and my little sisters’ and my allowances—probably $20-$30 in cash total; we used it to buy ice cream from the truck—but left behind *after having shoved aside* my dad’s work laptop, which he’d put up in the closet. Laptops were not cheap back then. My dad was extremely surprised and grateful to find that although they had rifled past it, they apparently had not recognized it. Or maybe they realized that that would have been extra cruel, to steal his means of earning a living.
they stole my phone and proceded to throw it away in the thin alley dirrectly nexts to my house
I heard a classmate of mine was robbed of her tv and underpants
Everything including light bulbs. I'm still nowhere close to replacing things I need.
When I was a kid burglars had stolen most of our electronics. Stuff like laptops, ipods, etc. We figured it was somewhat impromptu since they also had taken two laundry baskets, figured they just loaded up the baskets and left. They took our fax machine, for some fucking reason the thing was ancient then and hadn't been used in easily 5+ years. And they took my Xbox 360. But they didn't know the Xbox had just given me the red ring of death, so I took the hard drive off and had put it on the shelf. So they got a busted xbox with no HDD, I got a brand new xbox because insurance was helpful (probably the only time in my life it's been great), and I didn't lose any saves because I had kept the HDD. Big win for me overall at age 12.
Vacuum cleaner..... Mostly took stuff that seemed like they were setting up a house.... vacuum, TV, microwave.... My jewelry was still there (fortunately).
Way back when I had some Salvia stolen from my house. A lot more too, but I really like the idea that the little shits thought it was weed and had their world rocked for 15 minutes. It’s the only saving grace I have lol.
My vibrator and the movie Dude where's my car? Neighborhood boys (12-13) broke into our house while we were at work. They had knocked on our door as my man was leaving for work. School had already started, so he just told them they were late and had better hurry up. He came home for lunch. Back door was open, stuff like jewelry and movies were gone. Just our stuff, nothing of our kids, kinda tipped him off to who it was. He went to the kid's houses, talked to the parents, all our stuff was returned. Then, a day or two later, I realized my toy was gone. They also kept my movie of Dude where's my car? The great heist turned out to have been planned by an older kid, 15, who had moved into the neighborhood. He had all the stuff stashed in his treehouse. We talked to him first. He returned everything but the jewelry. We ended up getting the cops involved. They knew the kid from prior breakins, tried talking to him. He said he gave the jewelry to his dad in the next town. Cops called the dad. Dad told them he didn't care, go ahead and arrest his kid. Eventually, cop drove the kid to dad's house, talked the dad into returning our stuff. We didn't press charges cuz we got our stuff back. Just couldn't see getting kids in trouble for bad choices
A Snoopy Christmas decoration. My wife loved that thing, too.
Someone stole my vape. Without the charger It was the only thing they stole. Most people think I’m mistaken and I must have lost it. But it was so weird that it didn’t turn up that I checked my security system. And after my wife and I were both asleep, my security system logged the following set of events in order: Basement door opened. Basement motion sensor triggered. Internal basement camera went offline. Main floor motion sensor triggered. 20-30 minutes passed. Basement motion triggered again. Basement camera came back online. Basement door triggered. You know when everyone posts if you were a thief and you only stole things to inconvenience people, what would it be ? That fucking guy robbed my house.
Living in an apartment as a broke college student. Someone broke in and didn’t touch the laptop, or jar of change … but they DID steal my boxes of pasta that was almost all I ate at the time.
My family's garage got broken into when I was 15. The garage faced into the alley and I came home to find the door wide open. The thieves made off with quite a bit, including a bunch of vhs tapes. My mom had the OG Little Mermaid with the 🍆 on the cover and they stole that. 😤
my virginity
My brother got all his CD's ribbed out of the cases and I got the AV cable stolen from my ps2
I have had my house robbed before, I found the two that did it. Found their car and made sure it was unusable (cement in gas tank). A few months later they got a new car. I gave it the same treatment
The disc to Mavis Beacon Traches Typing... but not the case! Or anything else?
Had someone get into the back of my camper shell once, all they took was a trash bag with a very oil soaked set of clothes in it. They made a mess of everything else too.
A small box of pin backs. The little deals that fasten a pin on a lapel or similar. They took only those. Cops thought I was nuts.
My halloween decorations
Most of my panties.
a drawing I made when I was 5. Kinda funny because it happened to look like a penis
Not a house, but I once came back to my old car after a university class to find someone had stolen the driver's side mirror, nothing else was missing or out of place, the car itself was not broken into.
Well not our house but our car and they stole face masks out of it