One of my first "Road Bikes" was a used Viscount. Powdercoated red when I got it. I rode it to my High School, I think my Freshman year, and locked it up, but lost my key that day, so perhaps I dropped it by the rack.
It was recovered about 2 years later, but the person with it wasn't charged because of an improper search. But, it had been insured, and left for the insurance company.
In the meantime, I purchased a really cheap Astra which I rode around until my trip to Italy in 1982 when I bought my Colnago.
Sometime in college,
, maybe just after college, early 90's, I loaned the Astra to a friend, who was lax with locking it, and it was also stolen.
I still have the Colnago Super. I was pretty careful with locking it throughout college. I did keep it under my roommates bed one year, and somehow one day it had a bunch of spokes pull through the rim. I never figured out what happened.