Do people steal strollers?

[Anonymous]

We have a BOB and keep a lock in the bottom basket. The BOB is too big to take into a lot of places and thus we have to leave it outside. We figure the two seconds it takes to lock it up is worth preventing the loss!

[Anonymous]

I've never heard of a stroller being stolen, but we never leave it unattended either. We take a cheap light-weight (store model) stroller on trips with us or to throw in the car, and our nice McLaren (more heavy-duty) stroller for local walks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay; this is not related to OP, but why do people leave their strollers sitting on their front lawns? Not the porch, but the grass. Our neighbors do it. It looks junky.

I do it sometimes because I either forget or am too lazy to bring it inside. Sometimes I just don't want to bring it in because then it sits in my living room and some days I don't feel like looking at it. I can't put it on my small front porch because then I can't open the door. I'm also not the only person on my street who does this.

Really, does it matter? If the queen ever came to visit I'd put it away.

[Anonymous]

A man who appeared homeless (or at least very down and out) to me once suggested that I take a stroller that was parked outside a rowhouse in the Dupont area. I was using an Ergo at this time and I guess he thought he was being helpful. I, of course, politely declined his offer.

I live in AU Park area and leave my stroller outside during the day. I also left my car unlocked once and the opportunist who rummaged through the car left the MacLaren we keep in the car. I also leave the stroller unattended at the playground. I wouldn't keep anything valuable in a stroller, but I think you can trust that it won't be stolen except in freak circumstances.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are worried just use a $5 bike lock from target and lock it up to something. I'll leave my stroller unattended at a place where there are a bunch of other unattended strollers but pretty much anywhere else I just lock it up like I would a bike. Better safe than sorry is my thinking.

Agree, no need for a special stroller lock, just get a bike lock. That's what we do.

Sometimes the bike lock's cable is not long enough. With Bugga, Uppa and the like (removable seats) the cable has to be long enough to wrap around the seat, frame and pole.
Also, the longer the cable the more options you'll have. Depending on where we're sometimes we even wrap the older kid's bike/scooter to the stroller and pole.

What use would someone have for the seat without the frame? At least with the UPPA, you can't buy it a la carte so stealing the seat would be pointless. I think if your frame is locked up, you are probably safe ...

you can get anything out of the internet nowadays...

[Anonymous]

I had wipes and diapers stolen out of a stroller... Oh well we were at busch gardens and they needed them I suppose. We had a cheap stroller and only thing left it it was diapers and wipes.


I was working for a family who had a brand new double bob.... Mom always told me to watch it and make sure I could see it where ever we go because people steal them... She went out somewhere and left it unattendedand it was stolen along with her carkeys, and purse... Oh well... She was mad as hell I heard about it for 4 weeks.

All I thought as many times as I took it out with the kids no one touched it.

[Anonymous]

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I was working for a family who had a brand new double bob.... Mom always told me to watch it and make sure I could see it where ever we go because people steal them... She went out somewhere and left it unattendedand it was stolen along with her carkeys, and purse... Oh well... She was mad as hell I heard about it for 4 weeks.

All I thought as many times as I took it out with the kids no one touched it.

Why was the mom stupid enough to leave her purse and car keys in the stroller UNattended?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay; this is not related to OP, but why do people leave their strollers sitting on their front lawns? Not the porch, but the grass. Our neighbors do it. It looks junky.

Oh please. Avert your eyes then. I'm not dragging my stroller up and down my porch steps 3 or 4 times a day. The stroller is fairly heavy. And I'm certainly not doing it while I'm also trying to carry my squirmy 25 lb toddler. It's not safe.

[Anonymous]

We also have the Vista (love it!) and sometimes leave it unattended, though broken down and invisible from the street, on our front porch in CCDC. I also leave it totally unattended at the park, along with our diaper bag, but it's typically within sight. I've never locked it up but would consider it in an unfamiliar place, like a new restaurant or a store entrance.

I've also noticed a fair number of homeless folks using strollers downtown, but the Uppa isn't really configured with a seat that would be as useful to them as a bucket/travel system-type stroller, FWIW.