Note to bicycle thief: You're a "piece of s***"

(CBS) CHICAGO - A 19-year-old Chicago woman just couldn't contain her anger and frustration when her almost-new $700 bicycle was stolen this week. CBS Chicago reports she posted a boldly handwritten note near the bike rack where the crime was committed.

"To the piece of s*** that stole my bike from this bike rack. Do you know how hard I worked to buy that bike?

The note-lashing went on from there:

"Actually, you stole it WHILE I was at work," she wrote. "I'm 19 and I payed (sic) for it completely out of my own pocket. I work 40 hours a week. I go to school part-time. And that bike was my only form of transportation."

"I'm usually very passive and calm. But it was just one of those moments where I was like, I can't do this," the note's author, Olgi Freyre, told CBS Chicago. 

Her bike was stolen in the middle of the day - from the rack right outside her workplace, the station reported.

"I'm going to just write something mean for the world to see," she said.

She said she's not sure she'll ever see her bike again, but she says she feels better for having gone public.

"I think it should be something that people know about. Even if it is very crude," she said.

Just yesterday, we reported on a Wash., D.C. mom who left a similarly blunt message for whoever stole her 2-year-old son's carved pumpkin from the family's porch.

Does Crimesider detect a trend?

Moreover, we can report that according to CBS Chicago, the frustrated Freyre has a brand new bicycle, thanks to the kindness of strangers.

The story about her angry note caught the attention of of a man named Bob Curry, who remembered how it felt to have his own bike stolen.

He and his daughter took Freyre to a bike shop, and bought her a new one.

"They were both super amazing people that sort of restored my hope in society," Freyre said.

Now that's a trend worth noting.