Memorable things you've robbed or stolen.

When I was a kid I nicked a copy of Wings Venus and Mars on cassette. Now, 40 years on, I still have a sense of guilt every time I hear a track from it.
 
calumdown said:
we'd light a fire in the quarry and use an old pan someone nicked from their mum's pantry.
we'd melt the lead down into ingots using newhey bricks.
the dealers preferred it and it was much easier to discreetly transport.

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and, more than anything, it was just great fun.
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You're nicked sunshine. Get your knickers on.
 
J.G.Blue. said:
I spent a lot of my weekends as a kid (if not at the football) following dad round the local car scrap yards while he got bits he needed to fix cars, while wandering around I started "collecting" car badges & over the years ended up with over 100 different makes and models, sold them all a couple of years ago on ebay & ended up with around £250 as some were quite rare,
Sadly it set me off on a young life of stealing stuff from the scrapyards which culminated in me loading 2 big heavy leather seats out of the front of a very old Jag onto the back of my crappy old marina pick up and just driving out of the scrap yard without paying, I realised the error of my ways when I needed some bits from the scrap yard to keep my crappy old pick up (now with very nice front seats) on the road but could not go back to the same scrap yard in case I was recognised :-)
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I always thought tool boxes were for that....SU carbs and Smiths rev counters fit perfectly
 
Tuearts right boot said:
I always thought tool boxes were for that....SU carbs and Smiths rev counters fit perfectly
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Good few years ago now but before most of the scrap yards were closed down a lot of them around us had started checking tool boxes for stuff you might be liberating,
I have very early memories of my brother getting a drive shaft out of a scrap yard by putting it down his trouser leg and "limping" past the site office :-)
 
JULES said:
I was one of the 7, I think, that stole the..BUTHOLE ROAD sign in Rotherham or somewhere near, think it was the most stolen street sign in England according to the Sun.
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Would have imagined Clamhunger Lane would be quite popular too - but then, probably only fun for blokes mostly.
Buthole Road is a target that’s open to both sexes…
 
dickie davies said:
My sister was a volunteer in a Cancer charity shop and had her eyes on a pair of shoes that were on sale for £4
A little later that morning, she noticed they'd gone. She asked everyone who'd been on the till if they'd sold them and no one had, so she looked at the shoe rack more carefully and there were a soaking wet pair of shoes on the rack
Someone had done a swap
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Went bowling with work. French student intern came with a rucksack and shittiest pair of old trainers you’d ever seen.
Handed one in as ‘deposit’.
At the end put the bowling shoes in his bag and pulled out another pair to walk out in.

Being foreign and young he had the elan to pull off wearing the bowling shoes about town and not look like a total ****.

Lad’s a genius…
 
About 20 years ago we had a spate of cat poisonings round my way.
So some twat didn't like cats, and was leaving food out laced with God knows what.
Anyway one night when I was walking home from the local, I happened to notice that a house round the corner from me had one of those electronic animal repellers in the front garden. The owner of this house was obviously the poisoner I quickly reasoned, in my drunken state.
I went in to the garden and pulled the repeller out of the ground, and shoved it in my coat.
As I was making my escape, I decided I was going to nick the front gate as well. It was only one of them waist height wrought iron ones, not very heavy. I gave it a quick pull upwards, and to my surprise, it came off the hinges, so that was that, off it went with me back to mine, where the next day I had it behind the shed.
The cat poisonings stopped, could have been coincidence, I don't know.
I waited till he replaced the gate, then like the good neighbour i am, returned the old one back to his front garden.
 
Many many Moons ago when I was about 17, 4 of us went up in a mates car to Alderly Edge on Halloween.I got out of the car to nick the pub sign from outside the Wizard as a souvenir but it was chained up. It was my lucky break because with 4 teenage lads in a car we were stopped by the Police as we got back to Stockport and the car was searched. There but for the grace of God as I would have fessed up to avoid all 4 of us being nicked.
 
When I was about 16 we were getting a new bathroom. The plumber said to me yo take the cistern to a scrappy and I would get a few quid. My big Rangers fan pal and I took it down to the Salt Market. The owners were as rough as a bastard file and looked demented. Anyway, we got about £4, ripped off, it was part of the deal.

About a month later all thevhoyses were being renovated. I said to my pal, every single house has the same cistern as mine. We are going to break into every single one and steal them. It was going to be taken by whoever was renovating. We felt we had a stronger claim.

And thats what we did. The first one was the most fraught. We were shitting it. It is quite noisy ripping out a cistern. Anyway, it took us about an hour, maybe more. To get the **** out. By the end of the enterprise. We did it in five minutes. We employed a number of my young brothers and their pals. We needed mules to take the cisterns into town, on public transport. What a laugh. Made plenty.

When the work started, we all took the brand new copper pipes. A lot. Happy days.
 
In order...Mars bars and sweets aside. My brother's motorbike, an ambulance, a double-decker bus, a 1972 Rover 2000. I stopped circa 1992 after trying to nick a caged pheasant and nearly getting ripped to death in the process.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Many years ago me and some mates who i was going away ganes with had a phase of bringing back momento's from games that we had to pack in as it threatened to escalate and get out of control. The best thing i got was a sign from Goodison Park (when in Rome) that read "Goodison Park is a no smoking ground" i know I've still got it somewhere, bet it's quietly worth a fortune to the right Toffee now with their ground move.
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You could do a straight swap for your hub caps
 
Me and a few drunken mates nicked the coloured bulbs off the town’s Christmas tree one year. Sadly the following year they announced they weren’t going to have a Christmas tree due to the previous year’s loss.

We all felt pretty rotten tbh.
 
oakiecokie said:
My greatest was a football from Vienna, the day before our Final in the European Cup Winners Cup. I won`t bore you all too much as quite a few of you know, me and my mate hitchhiked it all the way there and back and we slept in the stadium for two nights.
We found out where the City team were staying, way up in the mountains and got a taxi to the hotel.I asked if I could talk to Glyn Pardoe, as Glyn used to take me to some City home games when I was 13 years of age.
To cut a long story short, we were invited down to the training ground by non other than Joe Mercer, so we travelled on the team bus and watched them for a good hour.
Somehow one of the training balls came our way and me and my mate had a kick about. It somehow made its way back to Mid Cheshire with me and we used it virtually every Sunday afternoon on our local rec for about 4 years before it became absolutely knackered.
True story as it can be confirmed by those of you who have read the book by Don Price "We Never Win Away ..." and my story is related on page 81 Chapter 9 Vienna Cup Final 1970.
As the great old song goes "Memories Are Made Of This". ;)
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Thought you was gonna say your seat from Hyde road x
 
Not me, but when I was a student I had to drag my mate away from trying to steal an ambulance that was parked up with its doors open on a night out.

Haven't seen him for years, hopefully he's not in prison for ambulance theft.
 
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