See? Social networking isn't all a crock of shit developed by overzealous grad students and clueless marketers. Sometimes things like Facebook and Twitter can be used to promote a common good, instead of just waste time on. Like the group that collectively found Lance Armstrong's stolen bike by using the global power of the Internet to send out Tweets and alert Armstrongians everywhere that their leader was in danger!

On Sunday morning, Armstrong also used Twitter to break the news about the theft, writing: “Whoa! They just came to my room and said our truck was broken into and someone stole my time trial bike! Wtf?!? APB out to the twitterati.”

A Facebook group called '1 Million Citizens Looking for Lance Armstrong's Stolen Bike' was also created, and police admitted the online campaigns made life difficult for the thieves.

"All the technology involved really kept the story alive and moving," said Sergeant Norm Leong of the Sacramento police force.

"It was clear that most of the people in the community were looking for this bike. It makes it hard to transport the thing; you can't ride it or sell it because it is that hot of an item."

Eventually, someone (not a suspect) brought the bike forward and humbly delivered it to Sacramento police. The bikes of Lance's teammates that were also stolen have not been recovered yet, but they aren't famous enough to warrant Internet vigilante justice yet.