Internet Posse Busts 'The Claw,' Canada's Dumbest Car Thief -Wired

Simply because the story entertained me immensely and it shows the power of the Internet to smite fools.

The thief took a tricked-out Nissan Skyline GT-R for a test drive in Calgary and never came back. The owner, Shaun Ironside, 27, called the cops but figured the car was headed for a chop shop, never to be seen again.

Desperate, Ironside posted a thread at Beyond.ca, an automotive discussion forum with 46,000 members. They'd nabbed a hit-and-run driver last year, so if anyone could find the car -- or what might be left of it -- they could stop the thief, Ironside thought.