Thieves stuck a thank-you note to a car windscreen after breaking in to steal shop goods.
The note to their victim read: "Thank you for all the good stuff you left for me and him.
"PS: Leave better stuff next time - ten out of ten for the chicken noodles. Yours truly, us the car thieves or David Bowie. PPS: Be back soon for more to feed our crack habit."
Chandrakant Mehta, a 50-year-old newsagent, said: "I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I found it.
"It made me chuckle but it is a serious matter. My car has been broken into seven times."
Mr Mehta discovered his Ford estate car broken into outside his home in the Ditchling Road area of Brighton.
Thieves took more than £100 of goods including cigarette papers, batteries, disposable lighters and packets of chicken noodles. Two other vehicles parked nearby were also broken into.
Mr Mehta said: "I'd like to see more police around but I have no complaints against them. There are just not enough of them."
The latest figures from the Home Office show there were 25,000 thefts of or from cars in Sussex last year, nearly one every 20 minutes, representing a fifth of all crime in the county.
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