I used to have a small manufacturing outfit.

Travellers (i'll use the PC term despite they never travel, they have set up a couple of fixed parks near us) used to come around the site regularly looking for scrap metal.

A guy in the next door unit had a car parked outside he wasn't using, (it was only a knackered old banger) regularly I would have people in asking whose it was and was it for sale.

One day I saw it being lifted onto a flatbed with a big claw like crane, I assumed they had got in touch and he had sold it.

Later he popped his head in and asked where his car was and did I know anything. They had nicked it in broad daylight and not thinking that anyone could be that brazen I basically stood and watched them take it.