Man, I know the feeling... makes you sick.

I recently recovered a Peugeot UO8 mixte that I foolishly left in my driveway one night, along with a girls Schwinn (good thing it's pink; the theif didn't want it). By the time I remembered that I'd left the bikes out after a ride with my daughters, the Peugeot was gone... Funny thing was, I spotted it a week later being ridden down a local street by a young guy who didn't speak any English (or pretended not to). He actually stopped when I pulled over a few yards in front of him, and holding onto the handlebars and shouting that he's on my bike that was stolen, and yelling to my wife to call the police, he jumped off and ran down the street... Aside from a bent pedal spindle and a tweaked rear rim, the bike was OK.