Is this just a London thing?
If you leave something you no longer need on the pavement outside your house people will help themselves to it.

We got rid of a table & two chairs in a matter of minutes earlier this year and a mate of mine picked up an Arc welder worth a couple of hundred quid.

Never experienced this when I've lived anywhere else.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:50, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

We used to do it in Glasgow
It's how we got our sofa last year.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)

Not at all
I've seen it in loads of places.
(berk, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)