Pup, your story reminds me of what happened to a girlfriend many years ago:

After a night of dancing, a group of 'regulars' went to the local coffee shop/cafe, where we all took a booth by the window. About 2 a.m., my girlfriend said 'did you see that - someone just hit that car and knocked it clear out into the highway'!

We all sat there, waiting for the police to arrive, which they did. They had the 'hitter' in their car and in a few minutes, an officer came in and announced 'is the owner of the silver Olds in here?' Everyone sat looking around, waiting for the owner to speak up. Then the officer said 'it is registered to a Ms. Pulley - is she here?

We all realized, in unison, that it was my girlfriend's car - talk about 'DUH'! LOL

Had my VW stolen in the late 60's.

Met my father at the mall, and went in to meet him for dinner.

He walked me to the spot where I parked my car, and it was not there.

Dad questioned and questioned me:

Are you sure you parked here?

Did you park at the other end of the mall?

Did you drive somebody's car?

Did somebody drive you?

Same answer, NO, I parked right here.

Then VW's were prime targets for stealing.

Never saw or heard anymore about it after filing a police report.

Many years ago, my family owned a service station next to I-95 in W.Melbourne, FL. One night, the night attendant closed up and went home, but left the keys in the wrecker we had. It was stolen and never heard from again.

And one day, several years ago, 2 guys in an unmarked wrecker (no, not the same one, ha!) came down our long, private driveway, thru the woods, to our house. They were just starting to hook it up to my husband's Toyota pickup when he wandered out of the house to see why the dogs were barking. Needless to say, they left in a big hurry, wondering probably why he was holding one hand behind his back. No, it wasn't an empty threat. They tried to say it was all a mistake, wrong place, sorry, but we doubt that. Our address isn't like anyone elses around here. If he had ignored the dogs, he'd have lost a truck.

My neighbor had cars stolen out of his place (he doesn't live there and his dad had a junkyard many years ago. They were very old junk cars. Probably 50's models when cars had some weight. If I would have seen them, I would have helped load them. About once a month someone would come up the driveway and want to buy them from me. Missed my chance!
Neighbor brought 2 more clunkers in - later models and I wish someone would take them too. Trouble is vines have them covered over.
Cute story about the truck being stolen. Bet that guy didn't live that one down soon.

These are funny stories. My brother had his car stolen when he lived in St. Louis. Right at Christmas time.

I'll always remember him telling us how he'd gotten up in the wee hours to deliver a baby, jumped in his car and it wouldn't go. The thieves had taken the tires and rims off and left the car sitting on some chunks of firewood. That was in Mississippi.

I've never had a vehicle stolen.

About 10 years ago, my husband and I moved to a new house in a new development. Only one street in and out, with just 12 houses total in the development. I got up to go to work one morning and noticed that one of my husband's truck was not in the driveway. This was not unusual as he has two and he often let his staff drive one overnight if they had personal car trouble. BUT, as I was driving to work, I thought, geez--wasn't his truck in the driveway when I shut the garage door before bed? So I turned around, drove back home, went inside and asked my husband, "where's your truck?". His answer "outside", me: "no, it's not", him: "yes, it is:. Me: "NO, IT's NOT". He goes outside and of course his truck is not there. Call the county sheriff office and he says "I'll be right there". Less than 5 seconds later, he's coming down the street from the cul-de-sac. Every house on our street that had a vehicle outside of the garage was broken into, and when they got to our house, they stole the truck to haul everything off! The truck was recovered 3 days later in another county after they ran out of gas. We couldn't believe not one single person on the street heard anything that night!

We lost some derelict cars to thieves - we thought the ex-tenants were removing their junk till one day we they took DH's vehicle which was in the same area. Finally called the tenants and no they were not removing them. Pulled the trail cam from the driveway and had shots of each of the vehicles being removed on a trailer, we ID'd the trailer tags. Scary as they were coming on days that I was on the farm alone. We called the sheriff and filed a report. The next week, sure enough they came back and tried to take my dumptruck! Hysterical photos of a small pick up with a tow bed trying to remove a truck twice it size. Even the neighbors watched the fiasco (not knowing it was our truck), as he had to stop several times to re-secure it. Icing on the cake was that the tow truck had a name & phone #. Got it back and caught the thieves but no time served and no restitution. Worthless cretins!