Flipping opportunist scumbags!!

The title of your thread describes them to a T. It would make me livid too.

DH was working to repair the fence at the side of our driveway and left his tools for 5 mins to answer a call of nature. The toolbox was stolen and not another person in sight.

On another occasion we had planted a piece of topiary in the front garden and we could hardly believe our eyes when we discovered it had been stolen overnight. They must have actually come with a shovel and worked very quietly while we were asleep in a bedroom overlooking the front garden. I was totally shocked at their sheer audacity!

Not long after we moved here we had the same thing happen to us - because one of us forgot to lock the car. They only took a couple of CDs and, strangely, DH's battered old walking boots out of the boot. They left mine, which were better than his, and worth a lot more, so they obviously weren't after stuff to sell. There has been a spate of vehicle break ins on DDs road, but they obviously looked into her car, decided that it had already been "turned over" and left it alone ! It is, as you say, kitty, unnerving, and now, if I hear a noise outside during the night, I am out of bed like a shot to see what it is.

Unsettling Kitty to find that somebody had been in your car, probably not a car thief thankfully! I bet you will now doublecheck on locking the cars,one day last week, I left the car unlocked,it's easily done.

I'm quite shocked at that Kitty - don't you live in a little village?

They would be welcome to my sat nav. Recalculating is the most irritating word in the English language.

What a horrible start to your day. kitty its intrusive, so annoying and I agree a bit unnerving. Hope your day gets better and you don't feel too spooked by it all. Hope the appointment went well too.
On a positive note maybe a local ne'er do well will now find an absorbing new hobby to keep him/her out of further mischief!

A few months ago we had a spate of this in our road kitty. No real theft although my neighbour had his back number plate unscrewed . Some were opened and the contents strewed in gardens and one neighbor had a potato pushed into his exhaust which could have been serious but was easily seen. It is just devilment for the sake of it. We had police patrols for a few nights and it stopped.

8kittylester* the only good thing is that you still have your car! Maybe they did not think that it was worth taking. I assume that they were looking for loose change and a sat nav.