I was just a victim of theft!

[beachbunny]

Someone came into my front yard this afternoon and stole my city-issued garbage can. Now what kind of sicko steals a garbage can?

I made a police report. I also found out it's going to cost about a hundred bucks to replace. The first one is free but they charge you for additional ones.

 

[kimkarli]

That happened to us a couple of years ago, and here's the kicker....It wasn't out at the street it was on the side of the house full of trash!!!!!! They stole it trash and all!!!! It was also one of the big city issued ones, and it took awhile foe them to finally replace it. Sorry it happened to you!!! Some people!!!

 

[beachbunny]

The worst part is suspecting that one of my neighbors did it. I mean, who would go through the effort of driving to another neighborhood, stealing a garbage can, and bringing it home? There's going to be a serious confrontation if one of my neighbors suddenly has an extra "gently used" garbage can on the curb come next pick-up day.

 

[Sherri]

That happand to us to. We couldn't figure it out. I went to the township and asked if maybe the trashman accidently dumped the whole thing in.
We would have had to pay a steep fee for the replacement as well but we hadn't been issued one in a long time so they let us slide. Seems like a silly thing to spend money on. Anyway, I for the life of me can't figure it out.

 

[Mishetta]

OMG! What would someone want with a trash can? That is sick!

We had one of those Christmas Mickey Mouse light up plastic figures stolen off our front porch while it was plugged in!! I was upstairs in our bedroom & I heard a noise of plastic hitting cement. So I just imagined that our Mickey had fallen over from the wind. WRONG! I looked out the window & saw a couple of teenagers running with my Mickey ~ cord following behind them. I screamed to my DH "someone just stole our Mickey!" Picture this....my DH is in his UNDERWEAR ONLY & he leaps down our 13 steps by maybe 3 leaps & blows out the front door like a bullet! He ran after the getaway car with arms flying all over the place screaming at them. One of the guys in the back, opens the car door & tosses Mickey out. They must have thought my DH was a crazed maniac being that he's running down the street in just his underwear in the middle of winter to save our Mickey. It worked. We got him back, with just a scratched nose & my DH was able to splice another electrical cord which was damaged when Mickey was kidnapped. My hero!

So now, our Mickey is displayed from our front room window INDOORS because no one messes with my DH's Mickey Mouse!

Sorry your trash can was stolen ~ hope the police can find it! We have our house number written in one of those huge bold black permanent ink markers on the bottom of our can, so I don't think anyone would take our can (or mess with my crazy husband again either!)

 

[DutchsMommy]

I had a similar experience. We have blue plastic recycling boxes here. We specifically went to the dump to buy two big ones - the free ones are really small. Anyway, a couple of months ago we had quite a windy day and when I got home after garbage day I had 1 big blue box and one small one. It was like a neighbour happened to find mine near their house and decided to do a little swap. I have been keeping an eye out on garbage day, but can't really be bothered to do a 'CSI' on my block. But...what kind of person takes their neighbours trashcan?? Weird

 

[mamaof2]

OMG! What would someone want with a trash can? That is sick!

We had one of those Christmas Mickey Mouse light up plastic figures stolen off our front porch while it was plugged in!! I was upstairs in our bedroom & I heard a noise of plastic hitting cement. So I just imagined that our Mickey had fallen over from the wind. WRONG! I looked out the window & saw a couple of teenagers running with my Mickey ~ cord following behind them. I screamed to my DH "someone just stole our Mickey!" Picture this....my DH is in his UNDERWEAR ONLY & he leaps down our 13 steps by maybe 3 leaps & blows out the front door like a bullet! He ran after the getaway car with arms flying all over the place screaming at them. One of the guys in the back, opens the car door & tosses Mickey out. They must have thought my DH was a crazed maniac being that he's running down the street in just his underwear in the middle of winter to save our Mickey. It worked. We got him back, with just a scratched nose & my DH was able to splice another electrical cord which was damaged when Mickey was kidnapped. My hero!

So now, our Mickey is displayed from our front room window INDOORS because no one messes with my DH's Mickey Mouse!

Sorry your trash can was stolen ~ hope the police can find it! We have our house number written in one of those huge bold black permanent ink markers on the bottom of our can, so I don't think anyone would take our can (or mess with my crazy husband again either!)

How Funny!!!!
I am glad that your hero rescued the kidnapped mickey. I and my dh would have done the same.


Beachbunny,

I am sorry about your stolen trash can, I'll send some pixiedust your way.

 

[DVC Sadie]

I think people are insane to steal a garbage can.

 

[clh2]

Our recycle bin blows away when it gets really windy. It always seemed like everytime this happened, we got a worse one returned to us.

We now have our name stencilled on it.

Our recycle bin is clean, because we rinse out everything first. Since our name has been on it, we've always received our bin back

So - yes it sucks that someone stole it. I would just make sure your name is somehow on the new one.

 

[hlane]

Be careful. This is sometimes how identy theft starts. They will dig though your trash to get info about you and then use it to open up credit cards, etc.

 

[N.Bailey]

Your story reminds me of the time someone stole our propane tank to our gas grill. The grill was moved and it looked like they tried to take the whole thing but maybe it was too difficult and they just took the tank?

I just can't believe anyone would take your trash can or your propane tank. I guess they found out the price and decided they didn't want to pay the $100?

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

We have new county issued garbage cans--guess I need to keep them locked up!

My first thought was that it was stolen to avoid the fee.

 

[FroggyinArk]

just reiteerateing,, this is a very easy way to get info to steal identity. all it would take was one or two ducuments and they have what they need, and if by chance there was one of the famous preaproved credit offers in there....

 

[MouseWorshipin]

Let me get this straight. The government is forcing people to buy $100 garbage cans? Is that right? Is this the law? If so, I'm not surprised that people are stealing them. At $100 a garbage can, I'd be surpised if they weren't.

We have private garbage collection. They give us one big can.

It is possible that your homeowner's insurance may cover this.

 

[jfulcer]

Let me get this straight. The government is forcing people to buy $100 garbage cans? Is that right? Is this the law? If so, I'm not surprised that people are stealing them. At $100 a garbage can, I'd be surpised if they weren't.

We have private garbage collection. They give us one big can.

It is possible that your homeowner's insurance may cover this.

This is a standard thing, pretty much across the nation. That big bad government!

Ours disappeared one sunday and we 'found' it over by our neighbor's house - the ones that have a bunch of kids and always overflowing trash. Well, it was full of their trash now. I knew it was ours because our cans have a HUGE serial number stamped on them, and I wrote ours down for this exact reason. Needless to say, their trash was dumped on the ground, and I reclaimed my can.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Your story reminds me of the time someone stole our propane tank to our gas grill. The grill was moved and it looked like they tried to take the whole thing but maybe it was too difficult and they just took the tank?

We had somebody do this too. DH heard a noise in the backyard that was too loud and too metallic to be one of the bunny rabbits. He went out and looked and sure enough the grill cover was off. THe grill itself (which is not small or light by any means!) was dragged a few feet. I guess they felt it was too heavy to move.

For the OP: YOu could always do what our HOA forces us to do and keep your cans inside from now on. Just a thought...

TOV

 

[PattnFmly]

We've had our recycle bins stolen too. We used to have 3 but now we have one. And the trash people cracked it when they tossed it back to the sidewalk but I'm still using it. We do have to pay for a new one too and I just haven't gotten around to it!

 

[jipsy]

They are stealing your garbage can because someone stole theirs and they don't want to pay $100.

 

[my3kids]

The trash can stealing thing has hit a community near us. In our area is it an identity theft thing....easier to take the whole can than look through stuff than while it is still in the yard. I'm glad you called the police.

And to the underwear chasing Mickey man....that image is just about the funniest thing I've ever read!

 

[kbkids]

This is a standard thing, pretty much across the nation. That big bad government!

Ours disappeared one sunday and we 'found' it over by our neighbor's house - the ones that have a bunch of kids and always overflowing trash. Well, it was full of their trash now. I knew it was ours because our cans have a HUGE serial number stamped on them, and I wrote ours down for this exact reason. Needless to say, their trash was dumped on the ground, and I reclaimed my can.

Good for you!!! Someone tried to steal ours a few months ago. We always put it out the night before trash collection. DH got up the next morning to bring it back in, and it was gone. I immediately suspected the neighbors a few houses down, exactly because of your same story. We walked down there, but only found theirs. (I know our serial number too). Then I looked up, and it was at the corner stop sign. Looks like they lost it when they tried to make the turn. Wasn't too bad - just a little trash fell out. Ticked me off more that I missed trash pickup because of it.

I wondered too if I wasn't kids pulling a prank, tying it to their car to spread trash down the street, but it didn't turn over until they made their turn.