One night when I was in my mid teens I was half-woken by some loud bang or crash. I lay in bed and waited for it to repeat but nothing happened so I went back to sleep. At the breakfast table I mentioned this and fiound that everyone else in the house had also been woken by it and also gone back to sleep. We shrugged got into the car wnd went into town for our weekly market and library run. When we came back we found our road closed with cop cars, a tow truck and various other vehicles parked around. It turned out that in the night some thieves had gotten into a store in a nearby town and taken the safe. They'd loaded it onto the back of a truck and driven away but had been seen so they were chased by the police around several back roads for a while until they came to our road when they decided to dump the safe down the side of the hill. That had woken us up. What really annoyed us was that if we had investigated we would have found the safe and gotten the reward but instead it went to a passing cyclist.