Somebody has nicked my watering can!

Isn't it annoying!?
There are children who play around here, so it may have been them.

I'm tempted to have a little walk around and see if I find it - except I can't walk hardly at all.

MissAdventure
Not funny I know , but your comment about their plants wilting made me smile

Perhaps it’s gone on holiday and you’ll get a series of postcards from various exotic places showing him/her/it having a whale of a time?
Money’s still on the neighbour. She might be giving it a little wash and brush up.

My mums next door neighbour had just that happen with her stone donkey, years ago (long before the internet)
It disappeared, then for around 10 years she got postcards from around the world from it!

madness!

Donald the donkey sent a photo of himself on Blackpool beach, first, then took off around the world.
She never did find out who was behind it.
The person she suspected, she later found out, had died years before Donald's shenanigans.

We once had a really old and tatty car that was stolen. It was worth almost nothing but was useful and more importantly it had my husband's brand new, very fancy, top of the range gore-tex jacket (that we had almost had to take a mortgage out to buy as gore-tex was quite new) locked in the boot.

The car was used in a string of rural robberies and some very expensive garden items were taken from nearby villages including mowers from garages and (legal) guns from houses.
Two days later we found the vehicle dumped behind some cottages with no obvious damage.
Joy of joys there was the jacket still in the boot along with some air rifle pellets. Amazing. We were SO excited. Pity I couldn't tell those blooming robbers what they had missed!

We've had a spate of car number plates being nicked around here.

I know it's awful, but there has been a bereavement around here, and I can't help but wonder if there might be a watering can going spare, to save me buying one.

Our hairdresser had a tree in a pot taken from outside her shop one evening (she'd forgotten to put it away when closing). An acquaintance saw this and noted the car's number. Told our hairdresser the next day. She angrily called the local police station who checked the number. Lo and behold! The thief was a woman who lived right next door to the police station.

She was actually indignant when the police knocked on her door and demanded it back from her!

Many years ago when refuse workers were on strike DH boxed up some rubbish to take to the local tip, put it on the wall outside the front door while he came back into the house - when he went back outside the box had been stolen! We would love to have seen the reaction of the thief when they opened the box and saw just household rubbish!

Years ago, when I'd taken delivery of some gardening stuff (cobbles, sand and cement) and taken it round the back I wondered what to do with the pallet on which it had been delivered, which I left by the gatepost knowing that you could sell them. Around £4 or £5 had once been the going rate - but where to take it?

Of course, overnight it was nicked and in its place was 'swapped' a long piece of that flexible mesh stuff (what you'd put against an archway to plaster over) and I had a high old time trying to bend this monstrosity into a shape small enough to fit into the dustbin. What a nerve!

And I recall another time when in the dead of night some cheeky beggars removed a couple of fence panels from our shared driveway. We all had to chip in for replacements and they've been secured to make it more difficult to lift them.

If you find your watering can , would you please check to see if the bright green plastic ring from one of my bird feeders is in there. It’s was in the back garden which is gated and locked. I suspect it was the black and white pair that I have seen sitting our fence.

We bought 5 lovely new roses and planted them beside our front path. In the morning we were left with 5 holes! After that we grassed over the borders….

When I was a child our Christmas tree was replanted each year at the end of the garden. One year the two boys a few doors away came in and chopped it down for themselves. It still saddens me.

It's walling stone that's being nicked around here, some possibly from well inside our garden.

MissA, perhaps you could make a temporary watering can from a plastic milk bottle with holes in the cap - I doubt anyone will pinch that! Or maybe they'll take anything, as it seems from this thread!

MissAdventure

I know it's awful, but there has been a bereavement around here, and I can't help but wonder if there might be a watering can going spare, to save me buying one.

? So funny!

Those horrible "tea leaves" will stop at nothing. A few years ago, we had a nicely planted up, huge blue pot outside our Church door. It disappeared one night, never to be seen again.

MissAdventure

They left my tricoloured buddhleia (sp) and half inched me can!

I might have pinched the buddleia if I'd seen it but I've already got a watering can (two in fact!)

Thieves tried to steal my very old car off the drive. It was worth very little but a solid little car - the police said they probably wanted it to use in a ram raid.

Well i have put a watering can,a bowl with a stone in it and sat them on Dh`s lap,and to my shock they are all still there,best take him a cuppa.he looks a little thirsty.

Grannybags

MissAdventure

I know it's awful, but there has been a bereavement around here, and I can't help but wonder if there might be a watering can going spare, to save me buying one.

? So funny!

I've heard of ambulance chasers but never watering can chasers.

When my brother was a child someone stole his red tricycle from the lane outside our house. It was ancient, handed down through dozens of cousins. It was hand painted by our grampy and had a saddle bag home made by grandma. I doubt it was worth a pound. My brother is still fuming and scanning back lanes for it fifty years on.

This is my favourite ever thread on Gransnet.

Car number plates are taken so they can get petrol.They drive off without paying and the number plates are traced and the real owner fined.Some sick people around.

MissAdventure sorry for your loss. I had a pair of trainers nicked from my front doorstop years ago. The joke was on the thief however, as the shoes were left outside as a fox had peed in them when they were accidentally left in my back garden overnight.

I’d left them on the step to dispose of them in a public bin so they didn’t stink out my household bin.

Feeling lovey dovey I bought my husband a pair of underpants with a pattern of red hearts on them. Would you believe they were stolen from the washing line the first time they were washed!

Someone also stole one of my pot plants from the garden.

Also the rose from the watering can... are there no lengths
to which garden thieves will sink?