Stolen Dock Line

[SailAwy]

Ugh, I am so aggravated. Yesterday I went to go do some spring time maintenance on my C25, and noticing my outboard was lowered and thinking how odd that was since I always raise it after each outing, I was immediately blessed with discovering my cockpit locker was flooded (monsoon like rains for last 2 weeks), so naturally my attention was redirected at figuring out the cause of the leak. Long story short, I figured out it was a busted scupper. Temporarily plugged it, bailed out about 20-30 gallons and went to cleaning that mess up. Came back today to slap some 3M 4000 on the fitting until my new one comes. But then went to investigating the cause of the now suspected fallen outboard. As it turns out, some a**hole stole my port side aft dock line, which when really wrenched on without it, is just enough to knock the outboard into the dock, which I assume at this point gave it a good enough wack that knocked it off its latch and came down. The outboard is mostly fine. Scratches from rubbing up against the dock, and I'm sure not without some unneeded stress on the motor mount and transom its bolted to, but no significant damage, thankfully.

Really though, what kind of miserable, desperate prick takes someones dock line?

I've only had the boat a little over a year, but is this a common occurrence? I don't suspect anything can be done to prevent this, but damn, what a frustrating thing to discover. Some people sure do suck.