Vehicle theft stories

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This is in response to a story by @TheHorse At one time a friend, who was (and still is) working as a teacher, struggled with organisation. Since he was single and life tended to be quite spontaneous, he had decided to be prepared for whatever came up, so in his car he kept a smart tie (in case it was parents' evening and he had forgotten), a squash racket (in case a colleague suggested a game after work) and a nice bottle of wine (in case friends invited him to dinner). At this particular time though it was the summer holidays, so he was earning some money by working as a night porter at a summer school, keeping an eye on the students and being on hand in case of emergency. Since he didn’t have a washing machine at home, he had decided to take advantage of the facilities at the hall of residence, so he put a big bag of dirty laundry in his car. But then in a rush he forgot to pick it up. Next morning he got back to his car and found that someone had broken into it. However they had not bothered to take the nice bottle of wine, the expensive squash racket or the smart tie – instead they had made off with the dirty washing. We did wonder if they would bring it back next day, or if we might find the contents thrown over a fence somewhere, but we never did. Another friend used to have an MZ motorcycle (anyone remember them?) One evening he parked his bike and accidentally left the key in the ignition. When he came out in the morning he found someone had stolen the key! Since the ignition key of an MZ was really more of a metal peg than a key, he was able to replace it with a nail and ride off as usual. Another friend had the stereo stolen from her car by thieves who smashed the window. The really extra-annoying thing was that she had to pay to replace the window, when if the thieves had just tried the handle, they would have found that the car was unlocked! All rights reserved. © Text copyright Fleur 2018.