I workout every day on a sports field next to a university campus, a place I always considered safe because people actually leave their stuff on the stands and workout on the field. It's expected you respect other's belongings.

Today I left my gloves on the first stand and proceeded to stretch on the field. A woman came by, placed her bike next to the gloves, covered the gloves with her jacket and started running.

I witnessed it all and said nothing because she didn't take the gloves, "just" covered them.

I ended my routine and thought about asking her to move her jacket so I could recover my gloves but she was training on the other side of the field, so I simply lifted her jacket, recovered my gloves and left.

I now believe she thought she could get em for free and nobody would notice.

I don't know if I'm being paranoid. Does this look like an opportunist thief to you?