I never got anything back. A few years ago, I got into my car to started up and I noticed all of the things from my glove box were neatly laid out on the passenger's seat. The only thing missing was the iPod that I left in the window mount, which was stupid of me. They somehow broke in without damaging my car, went through everything in a calm and organized fashion, then laid out what they didn't want in the same manner. I felt both violated and appreciative at the same time…
Lol. That reminds me of losing my ash tray (full of change) and one lug nut cover on my F-150. I looked all over the house for the ashtray remembering I took it out a few times. Never found it, and figured the lug nut cover (little hub cap, kind of) just fell off (nearly impossible). Unsolved mystery.
Then, last summer, both my 20 yr. old car and the wife's new Jeep had all the change extracted in the middle of the night. The wife had $30. in hers. My car had the ashtray removed, the new Jeep has no ashtray.
So I'm looking for my obviously missing money and ashtray, and think maybe the wife took it for some strange reason. So I call her to ask and she says, 'did you take the $30. out of my Jeep?'
Turns out a couple kids (probably) go through unlocked vehicles taking entire ashtrays full of change. The cops found 30-40 ashtrays dumped under the local bridge several times. It finally brought closure to what happened to my truck's ashtray a couple yrs. earlier.
A day later, I see a 15-16 yr. old sitting on my driveway wall at 2AM. I ask what he's doing there and he says 'taking a break'. I asked if he's taking a break from stealing ashtrays and he says, 'I'm not part of that'.
I turned on the spot lights and took pictures of him, he immediately ran away and there haven't been any ashtray thefts since.