Sorry to hear about the car, Steve.
Had a few probs myself over the years.
1 Some poor impoverished b*stard forced the fuel cap on my motor and nicked a couple of gallons of go juice - cops couldn't give a to*s.
2 2 lads on a motorbike added me to their collection when they went on a tyre stabbing run through the town - I lost 2 tyres.
3 When I lived in a flat my neighbour came banging on the door and sent me racing into the street in me jim-jams and dressing gown. He had seen a local tart spraying my windows with black paint! I must have looked quite funny hanging half out of the door of a Renault 5 at 30mph while she was trying to throw me off! Police (eventually) came out and said they wouldn't do anything about it.
How's the gearbox? Got it in yet?