Birds reclaim stolen bike shocker. Pls Advise

I'm curious to know just how common this whole situation is. Someone mentioned that the bike looked powdercoated, and I agree, so I'm assuming the thief had to take apart the entire bike to get the frame off to Armourtex. Sounds like a whole criminal operation. Would it be possible to build a beater as a sort of 'bait bike', park it front of RichMix with a sally-of-a-lock, and wait in the shadows until the inevitable theft, before following the thieving cunt back to their den of iniquity in Upper Clapton, where a rag-tag bunch of forumengers proceed to pilfer their way through his/her DVD collection and what not, before setting the place alight?
yeah, update us with the result when you're done :)