The Myers family was visiting Madison, WI to attend a wedding and did some sightseeing at the State Capitol Building and decided to snap a family photo using their tripod and the timer on their camera. When they turned around they saw their bag was gone and started searching for it.

The rest of the story is told in this statement from Mr. Myers:
I then realized that I might have caught the thief on camera and I checked the shot again. When I saw the guy with his hand in my bag, I ran back inside and found the Capitol Police. They were amazing. They immediately sent out a description of the thief using the photo I took. In a few minutes, one officer had found him still in the area. The thief had dumped some things from the bag in a nearby trash can — the flash for my camera, a small backpack of kids toys, a bag of cables, extra SD cards, my mini tripod — but still in my bag were my wallet with cash, credit cards, hotel keys, rental car keys, and my iPad. The Police recovered everything and hauled the guy off to jail.