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What's the most valuable item that you lost or gotten stolen?

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IronWing said:
My virginity. I flat out lost it. No idea how or where. One day it was just gone.
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Mine wasn't stolen...I gave it away happily!


amdhunter said:
My self-esteem. 🙁
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Did you ever have any to begin with?


My garage was burgled in 98. They stole all my hand tools, power tools, some car audio equipment, all my fishing tackle including my custom-made saltwater rods...in all, about $10,000 worth of stuff. My renter's insurance covered nearly everything without a fuss. The only real problems was the saltwater fishing equipment. The adjuster had no idea about any of that, and kept trying to value things with a Bass Pro catalog...I finally ordered an Offshore Angler (division of Bass Pro) catalog for him so he could understand why the value I placed on everything was so high...after that, not a bit of trouble.
As I replaced things, I faxed him receipts and he cut a check immediately.

To this day, I'll reach for something I KNOW I have in the tool box...and it's not there because it was stolen and I didn't replace it.
 
zinfamous said:
this is why I never understood paying more than ~10 dollars for sunglasses. they are the first and most frequent thing to get lost.

always.

for everyone.
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I can usually hang on to them for a couple years before they break or get lost 😛 2 years seems to be the max though.
 
It was like one of those ninja throwing stars, except it was a kid's toy from a box of cereal - all the "points" were just suction cups. You could throw it at anything smooth and it would stick. Everyone thought it was really cool. It was stolen by a classmate at school. (2nd or 3rd grade)

Prior to that, I had gotten a toy dart gun when I was 3 years old from a robot guy at the grand opening of the grocery store near my Grandfather's house. I was playing with the girl who lived around the corner from my grandfather's house & shot the dart toward some grape vines. I never found the dart again. The girl and I became really good friends after that, but rarely got to play together. She was a year older than I was. I've always wondered if she remembered that day (we went to the store together.) Just looked - couldn't find her on facebook. 🙁

Nothing in the years since has really had as much of a relative impact as those two things.
 
Doppel said:
My entire house
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Nothing left, like an old tube TV in the family room? D:

Comics collection late 60's to mid 70's by D.C. and Marvel, about 100 issues. Not sure how I lost it or by whom, but looking at comic catalogs today most of them will be worth a lot/collectible.
 
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I gave a good friend's wife a job cleaning at my house, and she took a checkbook and started writing herself checks. She only fired off two worth about $1200 by the time I got the statement.
 
Some asshole stole my holographic pikachu pokemon card back in 2nd grade. So then I bought a gun, and since then no one has stolen my shit and lived to tell the tale.
 
crab said:
I gave a good friend's wife a job cleaning at my house, and she took a checkbook and started writing herself checks. She only fired off two worth about $1200 by the time I got the statement.
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I take it she's in federal prison right now
 
alkemyst said:
This was my burglary list top 10:
1) Sony Vaio PCG-GR5E/BP (238000 yen) $2,546.00
2) CD's See separate list $1,499.17
3) $800 cash, 36,000 yen, singapore coins $1,188.00
4) HP Scanjet 4c $903.70
5) Compaq Armada M700 $785.00
6) Craftsman 3100psi Pressure Washer #580.752230 $776.36
Craftsman 165psi Compressor #919.167600 (bought with above)
7) RoomsToGo Sloan Coffee Table (includes end tables) $577.00
8) 299 piece sockets 35299 $511.19
9) Wedding Bands Jared White Gold 4mm $509.07
10) Japanese to English Dictionary SRT7000 and adapter $304.95

Sadly item #1 capped my 'computer' limit that was in a rider I missed when I signed the policy. So items #4 and 5 were hard losses (along with alot of other computer items).

The cash and jewlery wasn't covered except for $1200

🙁 the worst wasn't one item but almost $5000 in stuff that I had that was stolen but beyond the limits of my policy.
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Most of that shit is virtually worthless 2 weeks after you buy it. The computer may have been worth 2/3rds what you paid for it the second you signed the credit card receipt...maybe. I also like how you carry your values out two decimal places, as though the seven tenths of a penny matters...nice touch sir-trolls-a-lot.
 
When I was in college somebody stole my car. It was a beater so it wasn't worth much but in college it was financially devastating. The worst part is that the cops found it and had it towed to an impound lot. They wouldn't let me see my car until I paid for the tow and impound fee. After I paid they dragged it out front. Literally dragged it, the person that had stolen it had crashed it. The bastards at the impound lot wanted to make sure I paid for it before I saw it because any sane person would have just let them keep that crunched rusty beater.

A friend helped me drag it the mile to get it home. I took my time parting it out so I was eventually able to recoup those fees plus a little extra but I was pretty bitter about the whole thing.
 
JulesMaximus said:
Most of that shit is virtually worthless 2 weeks after you buy it. The computer may have been worth 2/3rds what you paid for it the second you signed the credit card receipt...maybe. I also like how you carry your values out two decimal places, as though the seven tenths of a penny matters...nice touch sir-trolls-a-lot.
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Well the EXACT price you paid matters on an insurance claim. Also doesn't matter the value at the time of loss unless you cannot provide proof of purchase.

So you just think my burglary was fabricated from 2 years ago? That's a laugh.

About as much as how since you own an old Maxima, that's keeping you from getting a Exige.
 
when I went to Disney World, I lost a film camera that was given to me by my great aunt, along with all the pics I took and some cash.

It was a pretty nice camera too.

Left it on a bus that took us home, we called but no one ever returned it.

I would say I have been pretty fortunate with respect to having lost/stolen property.
 
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My 35mm Minolta camera. Very nice quality, cost me $300 used. Came back from class one day to my dorm room and noticed it was missing. Turned to my roommate, asked, "Hey have you se-"

"I didn't see NOTHIN." he cuts me off mid sentence with. Meanwhile I'm like, how the hell did he know what I was talking about before I finished my damn SENTENCE? I talk to the RA, they send me to the resident director. They tell me I have no proof and they won't search through his things because it's an invasion of privacy. Yet, they tell me about this wonderful deal about how I can rent a safe from them for $150 a semester, plugging shit to the very end. A lot of good that'd do me at that point. Unbelievable bullshit.
 
I travelled to see my brother by train when I still lived in the UK, and forgot my bag on the train. Needless to say, I never saw it again.

It contained my DSi and about 6 DS games, including Pokemon Platinum and some pretty high level pokes. I've since replaced the DSi and a few of the games.
 
Got my backpack stolen this summer with two digital cameras total worth of ~$1800.

Luckily the insurance covered it.
 
Ichinisan said:
I have to think about it.

I remember losing a nearly brand-new limited-edition collectible GBA SP (some Donkey Kong green theme, really an awesome color) with a brand-new game ("Yoshi's Island"). Had several hundred dollars worth of Gamecube stuff stolen all at once (including an ethernet broadband network adapter that was already hard to find at that point).

...oh, and a folder with a few hundred legit PC games and CD inserts (serial keys and everything). That hurt the most.
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You forgot about our stolen yet recovered items: We imported a Japanese Gameboy Advance before it was available in The States and it was stolen in a pack with our entire GB collection including a Gold Limited Edition Gameboy Camera.

I calculated the big heist as costing us about $3,000 MSRP.
 
my precious

World&


STUPID FAT HOBBITSES
 
Oakley a wires 120
Prescripted polarised lenses 250
£370 lost 🙁

Still haven't replaced them...

Koing
 
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