What has been stolen from you?

[Sonoran]

Hi everyone! This is a response topic relating to Peter and his two quads that were stolen. Sorry to hear that.  I just wanted to hear what people have had stolen from them over the years.  My list is relatively small, but here it is.

At the waterslides:  My duffel bag: towel that Grandparents bought me for my birthday, sunscreen, change of clothes and sandals.

Someone broke my window and stole my scriptures.  We were at a bar for someone's birthday party and a group of guys weren't allowed in because they didn't meet dress code.  My car was the last one on the way out, we think they broke the window out of anger and grabbed the first thing they could get...maybe they'll read it.

My wife: car stereo and some cd's.

That's it...I suppose I've been relatively lucky. What about everyone else?

[NM_Shooter]

My house was burglarized on Holy Thursday of 1998.  Main things they got that pissed me off was a camcorder case that had tapes from my daughter's first two years of life.  They stole a tie tack made from silver from the Atocha, that was my dad's.. the last time he wore it was at his wake. 

I've had trailer balls stolen off the back of my truck.  I've had my wallet stolen twice. 

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[considerations]

The top half of my antique wood cook stove (go figure), a 6 foot bronze statue of a mermaid, a stair stepper, an all in one gym, a wooden chest full of glass and brass beads plus the widgets for making jewelry, 3 ballgowns, a chainsaw, a stereo, two antique Italian birdseye maple night stands, my bed (creeps)....basically one pick up load. 

[Ernest T. Bass]

That's the nice thing about being poor. Living remote helps too... Though, we are accumulating quite a large tool assortment and our garage is right on the road. We weren't too concerned until a bunch of druggies started occupying an old house just a half-mile down the road.... Now we lock up at night... 

Only thing I remember having stolen was a cellphone out of our car. At church, none the less.... A family that just moved into the area had a large trailer stolen right off their car at a motel. Caught the thieves with a security camera and everything, but so far that didn't help. Now they have a table with no legs, etc.

[StinkerBell]

My YOUTH!

[considerations]

I was insured, they paid the claim then canceled me.   

They lost my business on house insurance and the vehicles. 

Well, I don't a house (yet), and wouldn't have kept about half the stuff that was taken anyway....it still really freaked me out at the time. 

The only thing that I really regret not having now is the top half of that cook stove.

I caught the guy cruising the storage facility a few weeks later, wrote down a description of him and his pick up, made a sketch of him, faxed it to the detective, who KNOWS the guy, but they never got enough hard dirt for an indictment.

I cashed the check from the insurance company and never looked back.

[Ernest T. Bass]

My YOUTH!

Heh, I'd letcha' borrow mine if I didn't have such a need for it now.

[MountainDon]

Two sheets 4x8x3/4 red oak plywood, from the trailer in a parking lot while I was inside HD
Ducati 250 motorcycle
Five Cibie lights, 2 driving, 3 fog (2 front, 1 rear), right off the Volvo 123GT
My magnetic base Wilson 2000 ham antenna

Those are the things I recall because I was so tee'd off

[rwanders]

Have been burgled twice--both times they made off with a brand new pistol, first was a S&W 9mm model 39, second was a 38/357 chiefs special hammerless my wife had just bought----neither one had ever been fired. In the second burglary they also got another revolver and about $10,000 in jewelry. Worst of all, my 12 year old son came home while the burglars were still in the house----fortunately they hustled out his bedroom window before he came downstairs and surprised them. With two loaded guns in their hands it could have gotten very ugly! He heard them downstairs and took the phone into the bathroom, locked the door and called 911---I was proud of his level headed action in a dangerous situation.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Gosh, compared with y'all, my stuff is nothing.  I used to have a two-legged tomato and squash thief in our old house in OK before we moved to WI... and someone took our trash can, though I can't imagine why they would have wanted it.  Then, when we moved to WI, as we were moving in, someone stole my husband's guitar from the tail end of the moving truck while we were carting a load in!!   Also while we lived in WI, I got my purse snatched at a restaurant in Chicago.  I was so ticked mainly because it had the baby's diapers in it and also our digital camera with some pics of the kids that I hadn't had a chance to download yet.  However, the diaper situation was worse at the time because it was snowy and it took us several hours to get back to the house, and the poor thing had to sit in a wet diaper so she cried all the way home.  Thankfully, the purse didn't have a dime in it.  We were able to cancel the bank cards and credit cards within minutes.  Oh, and I had a really beat-up old ten speed bike that got stolen when I was in college one time.  Funny thing was that I hardly ever locked it up, and for some reason I actually had that day, and someone took it while I ran into my house to grab lunch.  If I'd only looked out the window, they'd have been in full view.  Had a roommate in college who used to steal my food all the time... does that count

[Whitlock]

Gas out of my truck and chainsaw. All down in the valley

[glenn kangiser]

Too much to list - big cities and valley -- welders, gas - equipment- my hair.....

[harry51]

We left our garage door open one day a few years ago, and my chainsaw and DW's classic Schwinn bike disappeared. It's a good neighborhood, likely a passerby opportunist. We were home, never saw or heard a thing.

[rwanders]

Just remembered a time----had a 55 gallon drum we kept gas in on construction site----began to notice missing gas. waited until drum was almost empty and stuck water hose in and filled it up. Left hand pump in drum for bait. Gasoline floated on top of water and fooled em good. On Monday morning, I noticed drum was down a foot or so-----never knew who the culprits were but never lost any more gas. Figure someone had a long walk and a long job cleaning tank, fuel lines, carb and various other parts-----wondered how long it took them to figure it out.

[lonelytree]

I lost a S&W 629, lots of important papers, some jewelry, daughters cameras and videos back in the summer. Gave the police a parking ticket with the license plate number on it that was left in the house. The owner is a contractor AND on parole. No arrest made. It is getting OLD. Next person will have his picture taken.

[peternap]

This is the first thing we've lost in 30 years here. Of course, it didn't used to be the burbs. If I hadn't just gotten the things back from warranty repair, they would have been safe at the farm. Half the time we don't lock the house and I almost always leave the keys in everything. That has already changed!
Paradise Lost.

I was hoping they would come back for the bikes last night so I've been sitting out in the rain all night with a 12 ga loaded with rock salt. I should be so lucky!! I'm beat

[ScottA]

Lots of tools from my truck over the years. Had my wallet stolen once.

[Redoverfarm]

I could safely say that 95% of the things stolen were done so to revert it to cash for what ever reason.  The remaining would be used for their personal use.  The sad thing about it is that they only get about 10-20% of it's actual value when sold.  Oh yeah and then there is a small percentage of stolen property they gets dumped (rivers and lakes) because the theives get scared. 

Have you ever noticed that of all the belongings that are taken things like picks, mattocks, shovels, digging irons, sledge hammersand other hammers that require manual labor to operate are always left.

But the real discouraging fact is that the majority of the offenders are repeat offenders who have managed to work the system with plea bargins, lesser included offenses, probation and others. If they had been convicted of the original offense this would not occur.

[Sassy]

Well, I had my car stolen; another car I had parked out in front of the hospital with a new, very expensive stereo, was broken into through the passenger window & just the stereo taken.  Then when the glass place fixed my window they messed up the alarm system but said it wasn't their doing.  Insurance took care of the stereo with no problems (USAA is great!).  I've had jewelry & clothes stolen; brand new bikes that were locked in the garage, even food stolen from my freezer in the garage    Then just recently I had money stolen from my purse at work - I'd just counted it earlier - I'd even hidden a $100 bill & that was taken too.  Probably other things have been taken that I don't know about 

[cordwood]

I had about 10k(replacement value) worth of tools stolen out of my pickup once but so far our home has only been robbed by relitives  .
I think the fact that I go to the most talked about thugs in the area when we first move to a new place and tell them that I don't call the law I just feed them to the pigs keeps the temptation level lower. It's funny but after you shoot 1 bad guy you can't even have a decent yard sale,....Go figure
  When someone stops to ask to buy my stuff (aka JUNK!) I shoot my 30-30 into the woods and yell D@MN KIDS!!,.......Keeps conversations short and to the point I love being a "Hick from the sticks"

[Squirl]

1 car, 2 motorcyles, 3 bicycles.  I can't even think of all the rest.  All just possessions, no loss of life or limb.

[glenn kangiser]

I once followed the tracks of a doper thief across my parking lot from my equipment to his Cadillac in plain sight beside the sidewalk.  The funnel was still in the tank and the gas can and hose was beside the car.  He must have went in the house and passed out.

I called the police, they came out - investigated and they said since I didn't actually see him they couldn't do anything.  He was a known doper and thief.

As he was leaving an officer took me to the side and  said that if the doper's car accidentally caught fire that night that they would be looking the other way.  It unfortunately didn't catch fire that night but that was 30 years ago....

[considerations]

"It unfortunately didn't catch fire that night"

Darn it Glenn, the only day you weren't packing a lighter!

[glenn kangiser]

hmm Maybe I was wanting him to be in it.

I don't know why it didn't but it really should have. 

I still had a few questions about whether they would all look the other way or just some of them as I recall.

[Sonoran]

I called the police, they came out - investigated and they said since I didn't actually see him they couldn't do anything.  He was a known doper and thief.

As he was leaving an officer took me to the side and  said that if the doper's car accidentally caught fire that night that they would be looking the other way.  It unfortunately didn't catch fire that night but that was 30 years ago....

I've heard stories like this before. The victim was certain of who did the crime but they didn't actually see them doing it so the criminal gets off the hook.

A good person loses because they are honest and the criminal "get's lucky" because of the rules. I've decided that if I'm ever in a situation like this I will say I saw them doing the crime.