In Madrid, seven nocturnal furniture fetishists treated sidewalk cafés like IKEA clearance. Over two months, the crew swiped 1,100 metal chairs—stacked, chained, and still somehow gone by dawn—then flipped them in Morocco and Romania for a cool €60,000. Spanish police finally pulled up a (non-stolen) chair and arrested the seat-snatching syndicate.

This seat taken? Thieves busted for stealing over 1,000 restaurant chairs in Spain