A Little Rock man who tried to steal a tandem bike from a local convenience store may have earned the title, “This Week's Dumbest Criminal.” (Brian Temples, Shell Superstop) “It's a two-seat tandem bike. You can see how long it really is…monstrous bike.”

Brian Temples was shocked when a clerk called to tell him a brand new tandem bike that was on display had been stolen from the 24-hour Shell Superstop on Geyer Springs Road around midnight.

(Temples) “We're like, ‘What do you mean? How do you steal a ten-foot bike out of a store?’ She said, ‘Well the guy came in to eat with his wife or girlfriend--we weren't sure. He was looking at the bike and rolls up to me at the counter.’ This is Myrtle telling me this. And I'm like, ‘What did he do?’ And she said, ‘He looked right at me and said ‘I'm taking off.’’”

It's no secret that the store is under video surveillance—a monitor is in plain view, right behind the counter.

On the video you see the suspect checking out the bike, and before long he hops on and rides off into the night--leaving behind the woman he appeared to be with.

But the story doesn't end there.

The clerk called police, and a few minutes later saw the suspect walk back on foot.  Turns out he had left his car at the gas station.

He drove off, but police found him not far away.

(Temples) “They said when they pulled up they saw him holding this ten-foot long bike, and he was just trying his best to wrestle it and stuff it in the trunk of the little bitty car. And they say—literally--the bike is bigger than the car. And he wasn't trying to put it on the car--he was trying to put it in the car. And I guess that's what got him caught--taking too long.”

The suspect, whose name hasn’t been released, was charged with theft.

The woman he was with had to get a cab ride home.