a girlfriend lived in a house near a block of flats and she used to get cranky because every sunday morning she'd come outside and find her hose had had 20cm cut off it - at the tap end! she'd just wished they'd cut their bong requirements from the free end so she didn't have to keep re-fixing it.
My grandmother used to live with us when we were teenagers. She was the gardener. Her hose kept getting shorter - she could tell because it wouldn't reach as far. I told her that new hoses shrunk when left in the sun. She seemed to fall for it.
Mate of mine was a tradie. When he had a big job to do in the inner city once, he borrowed a mean dog to guard the tools in the back of the ute. Yep, the dog got nicked.