Police hoping to nab thieves instead find good Samaritans Honesty foils car theft sting operation By Teresa Rochester Tuesday, December 25, 2007 The bait was tempting: a nondescript, unlocked rental car, parked in the lots of busy shopping centers in Thousand Oaks at the height of the holiday shopping season, with high-end electronics left in plain sight. For three days the Ventura County Sheriff's Department watched and waited. No one took the bait. "We really expected sometime in the three days we would have one or more people we would be arresting," Senior Officer Eric Buschow, a detective and spokesman...