Just to lighten the mood a little, i had my mountain bike nicked many moons ago. The avenue i lived on was your average semi-detached road, with shared drives in between houses but no gates on the fronts. I had ridden up my drive and lent it against the side wall of the house. Came out after 10 minutes to discover that someone had nicked it.
How does this lighten the mood?
My old fella was in the front garden of house we shared a drive with, talking to our next door neighbour and the bloke from the semi next to them. The guy across the street was also out front doing his garden.
Still not mood lightning enough?
In total, there was a Police Constable of 20yrs service, a Police Constable of 25yrs service (my old fella!!), a detective sergeant and a detective inspector. When i asked them where my bike was they told me my mate had just walked past them on the drive, jumped on my bike and ridden off on it smiling and waving to them. Needless to say they got some stick for that from their colleagues!