that reminds me of when i worked in a LBS in college. we had a smash and grab, 2 high end gt mountain bikes stolen. about a year later i was headed to class. I was locking my bike to the bike rack outside the humanities building. I looked over next to me and there was one of the bikes. I dropped my u-lock on that bike and rode over to the phone, called the shop and got the serial #. The inventory tags for the missing bikes were still on the wall in the boss' office. we called campus police and they staked out the bike. I guess someone must have come by before I could get my u-lock back off, they must have gotten spooked. we never caught the thief but we did get the bike. I got a good bonus out of that deal.