Just done my garden and after an hour of hacking through the jungle that I affectionately call my lawn, I decided to feed my beds with some Miracle Grow (TM)

To my horror, I discovered that some bar steward has pinched the nozzle off my garden tap, so I cant now connect my hosepipe up :(

If by some chance my nozzle re-appears I won't press charges :P

What's the most bizarre thing you've had pilfered ? :cool:

Originally posted by rtapper
Just done my garden and after an hour of hacking through the jungle that I affectionately call my lawn, I decided to feed my beds with some Miracle Grow (TM)

To my horror, I discovered that some bar steward has pinched the nozzle off my garden tap, so I cant now connect my hosepipe up :(

If by some chance my nozzle re-appears I won't press charges :P

What's the most bizarre thing you've had pilfered ? :cool:

Sothall seems to do very well for things being pinched from gardens, the allotments up near the Belfry got raided quite a lot during last year and if they ever get catch who is doing it they will be walking home with fork holes in their chests the thieving gets :rant: :rant: :rant:

when I lived at my old house I had two troughs on the stone windowsills at either side of the front door - nothing fancy in them, just pansies etc and a bit of greenery. Both were exactly the same.

One Spring, one of them disappeared. Could never work out why the pilferer had taken one and not both of them - they were only small and light. Took me ages to get round to doing a replacement so my front door looked odd for months. Finally I did a second one to match and that too disappeared a few months later!!! Explain that!!!:confused:

I woke up one morning, to find my entire patio furniture set had been stolen.

four chairs, a table and the parasol stand.
I went to let my dog have his run on my garden, and I happened to glance along the patio.

"that looks strange!" i thought... "there's something missing!"

and then it struck me!

Some theiving sods had nicked my entire set of patio furniture.

Not long after this, I paved- over my front garden, because I thought a small border and about four, small, approximately a foot/ 18" square beds would be much easier to maintain.

some sod stole my fence, and about half my paving stones!

the blighters!

PT

On Crimewatch a few weeks ago there was an item about a large swimmimg pool being stolen from a garden, complete with the water still in it.

We had two childrens plastic hula-hoops stolen from our back yard!! I mean, who on earth would want to steal two bits of plastic worth 99p?

We've also had other bits and pieces go missing as our gate is knackered and dosn't lock. It's a communal yard shared between 4 houses and the wall and gate officially belong to the next doors landlord. We have patched it up and fixed it so many times over the years that I have got fed up of doing it. I asked our landlord to fix it but they say it's the other landlords responsibility and won't touch it. When I asked the other landlord to fix it he said If I complained again he would remove the fence and the gate so we would just have big open space direct into our yard from the street. Nice man ....... not!

My old next door neighbour was about 90 and a little bit loopy. Me and my mum used to commonly see him going into the lady next door's garden, dig up her plants and then replant them in his garden when she was out. Not sure if he ever used to do it to us??! :suspect:

When I was a student around 1989, I had an old Citroen 2CV bought for £25 which I ensured very cheaply, and this enabled me to ride a 250cc motorbike 3rd party insured very cheaply. I didn't drive this car, just left it on some spare land. After about 6 months, the doors dissapeared in the night.
A week later other bits started to dissapear. Then one of the local drunk young residents thought it was funny to start breaking bits off and chucking them about the streets. So I called in the scrap man.

Someone stole a gargen bench from our back garden in Netheredge. You could not see if from the road so they must have been scouting the street out. Gits!

I had a spyhole nicked from my door! Never understood it, I lived in a block of three flats and I was on the top floor. None of the others were pinched.

My next door neighbour were having some work done and their contractors left a machine that flattens the ground. That was pinched in the night. I don't know how they did it as it must have been heavy and they would have had to move it through the passage so we should have heard something.

Originally posted by rtapper
Just done my garden and after an hour of hacking through the jungle that I affectionately call my lawn, I decided to feed my beds with some Miracle Grow (TM)

To my horror, I discovered that some bar steward has pinched the nozzle off my garden tap, so I cant now connect my hosepipe up :(

If by some chance my nozzle re-appears I won't press charges :P

What's the most bizarre thing you've had pilfered ? :cool:

In the late 1980’s I was living in the new houses at the bottom of the Manor. We were one of the first to move into the street. The houses were attractive and the surrounding settings seemed perfect for our then young kids. Then two families from the travelling community moved into the area. People’s property started to disappear from day one. The crime rate shot through the roof. It was a nightmare! You could often spot members of these families out “trawling” the area day and night.

The most bizarre thing we had nicked was the pegs off the washing line. I guess there was nothing left for them to nick.

They must have really upset someone because one morning I noticed that paint stripper had been poured all over both cabs of their trucks.

sounds like if its not nailed down in sheffield the little sods nick anything you want to move to derbyshire not like that here

taken from local paper
New statistics show the number of homes burgled in the town between April and December last year fell by 49 per cent – from 897 to 460 – compared to the same period in 2003.

Meanwhile the level of car crime, which includes the theft of vehicles and theft from vehicles, dropped by 43 per cent for the same nine months.

I keep having quartz pebbles nicked from my front garden.

Once had several Fred Perry T shirts nicked off the washing line.

Next door neighbours were burgled one evening a few years ago. It wasn't until they were opening the curtains to investigate where the strong draught was coming from - and discovered that the window pane had been completely removed - that they then noticed their tv set was missing!

We holiday each year in a remote cottage in Snowdonia. It's on a gated, dead-end road, miles from the nearest inhabited dwelling. No-one else lives or stays up this mountain road. I was woken at 03.00am. by a car driving past our cottage to the end of the valley. Just thought it was someone who'd taken the wrong turning at the junction down the valley. Only it was thieves - who nicked thousands of pounds worth of sheep shearing equipment left overnight in a mountain hut. Just goes to show that thieves will strike anywhere.....and my boyfriend had his motorbike nicked in Hull on Thu night!.

how about a patient wheelchair from the spinal injury unit in sheffield's northern general!!!!

a few years ago I caught two kids trying to wheel out a 4 foot oxygen cylinder!!!!

They had our gate away last year!

Nothing special. Waist high, rust/paint/metal job.

Someone once nicked a third-full can of motor oil from out front of our house. Wasn't even good stuff.

I'd toyed with the idea of leaving another third-full can out there, but with a pound of sugar poured in, but never got around to it.

I once spotted someone disappearing off down the road with our garden gate.

I didn't say anything however, as I didn't want them to take a fence
(ba-dum-tish!)

I heard a tale about someone stealing the soap, toilet rolls and the light bulbs from the Hospital while his wife was giving birth!!!

Hazel

when i lived in page hall i used to get stuff nicked off the washing line quite often funny thing is it only happend when the fair was up at firth park:) :) :)

I used to work for a solicitor, and he told me that one of his clients nicked the wall clock out of the meeting room once. He was pleading not guilty to a theft charge at the time. Priceless!

had some stergeon fish stolen from my pond and a nice koi carp dont know if its local hoodlums or the herron :suspect: