I read a story a few years ago where a guy chains a large chunk of rail to the back of his car and dragged it to the scrap yard thinking nobody would notice the 3” deep gouge in the asphalt.
“...thinking nobody would notice the 3” deep gouge in the asphalt.”
My favorite one is from right after the USSR went bust and things were somewhat chaotic. The police stopped a guy towing a MiG away from an former-Soviet airbase.