[garry22]

An oven cleaner was working a couple of miles from me.

It was something large like an Aga.

He used the dip tank, rinsed the parts and left them to drain outside the house.

A van containing three men (of Balkan appearance according to witnesses, but who did not get the number) pulled up and took all the bits for scrap!

[SteveAllan]

  Brilliant, school boy error. Never leave anything outside.