camera unlost, but not quite found.

nickel · 02-21-2006, 08:08 AM

all i have to say about this is

and

again.

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Saturday, February 18, 2006
camera unlost, but not quite found.
I hadn't posted here in a while, because just after the last post, I got a call from an excited park ranger in Hawaii that "a nice Canadian couple reported that they found your camera!" She gave me their name and number, and I eagerly called to reclaim my camera.

"Hello," I said, when I reached the woman who had reported the camera found, "I got your number from the park ranger, it seems you have my camera?"

We discussed the specifics of the camera, the brown pouch it was in, the spare battery and memory card, the yellow rubberband around the camera. It was clear it was my camera, and I was thrilled.

"Well," she said, "we have a bit of a situation. You see, my nine year old son found your camera, and we wanted to show him to do the right thing, so we called, but now he's been using it for a week and he really loves it and we can't bear to take it from him."

I listened, not sure where she was going with this.

"And he was recently diagnosed with diabetes, and he's now convinced he has bad luck, and finding the camera was good luck, and so we can't tell him that he has to give it up. Also we had to spend a lot of money to get a charger and a memory card."

It started to dawn on me that she had no intention of returning the camera.

"We'd be happy to return your photographs..."

I was incredulous. "This is an expensive camera, you know."

"Oh, we know, we looked it up."

"I was hoping to offer a reward for it, but I was also hoping to get my camera back."

Silence. It is now clear I will never see the camera again. I'm shocked at what seems like an utter moral failure on her part, despite her claim to want to "do the right thing."

"Ok," I say. "Why don't you send me my memory cards, and, say, $50 and we'll call it even."

I give her my address.

I don't hear from her for nearly two weeks. Friends suggest filing a police report.

Finally, I get a package in the mail.

"Enclosed are some CDs with your images on them. We need the memory cards to operate the camera properly."

I call, furious. "I was shocked to get your package today. Our agreement was that you were to send me my memory cards, not that you would keep an additional $120 worth of my property on top of the valuable camera you already chose not to return."

"You're lucky we sent you anything at all. Most people wouldn't do that." We go back and forth a bit more. She eventually hangs up on me. I call the police department in her town (in Canada) but they tell me that it's a U.S. issue, since that's where the property was lost.

I am out $500 and some measure of faith in humanity.

http://lostcamera.blogspot.com/2006/...ite-found.html

gwilks98 · 02-21-2006, 08:29 AM

I would take a picture of my big white butt and send it back to her son. That's rediculous.

mcs328 · 02-21-2006, 08:32 AM

I saw the post on Boing Boing. Boing Boing is being 'sued' for the post by some Canadian lawyer who probably isn't one which is a crime.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/20...lawer_thr.html

DarkFury · 02-21-2006, 09:27 AM

Man.. if those folks left a "return address" on the package... I'd be sending the authorities to their house to reclaim my property.

Better yet, I'd do a reverse lookup on their phone number... Either way I'd be getting my property back.

If the camera brought THAT much joy to the kid, then I'd have the parents sending me some money to help buy me a new one if they love that one so much.

WhiskeyPapa · 02-21-2006, 10:36 AM

I would make a hobby out of calling her. I'd call every day, perhaps several times a day.

I think the original poster should send a few links to the perp, and threaten to reveal the name and phone number of the thief unless the camera is returned. This story is generating some outrage here in the states. I'm sure he could make her life a living hell.

cadetevon · 02-21-2006, 10:40 AM

This made me so ANGRY

that I went over to snopes.com to see if it was fake... I was hoping it was.

It's not listed there (and I did several different searches).

So yah, I'm still pi$$ed off. Grrr.

DarkFury · 02-21-2006, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by WhiskeyPapa

I would make a hobby out of calling her. I'd call every day, perhaps several times a day.

I think the original poster should send a few links to the perp, and threaten to reveal the name and phone number of the thief unless the camera is returned. This story is generating some outrage here in the states. I'm sure he could make her life a living hell.

Calls to Canada daily might get quite expensive.... even more so than the camera in question.

Jenny · 02-21-2006, 12:18 PM

Contact the newspapers. Here in the US & in Canada. At this point, it's about more than the freakin camera. What lessons are those people teaching their son? ****ing *******s.

Merlin · 02-21-2006, 12:29 PM

In the long run at least she got her pictures back. Maybe next time she will be more careful with her things.

zippyjuan · 02-21-2006, 12:39 PM

They had only had it a week and they already bought a charger for the battery and another memory card? And then further down:

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We need the memory cards to operate the camera properly."

Did they buy one of their own as said earlier? Either this is bogus or they never intended to return the camera in the first place so why say they had found it? Doesn't sound right.

blueindian · 02-21-2006, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkFury

Calls to Canada daily might get quite expensive.... even more so than the camera in question.

vonnage.

nickel · 02-21-2006, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zippyjuan

They had only had it a week and they already bought a charger for the battery and another memory card? And then further down: Did they buy one of their own as said earlier? Either this is bogus or they never intended to return the camera in the first place so why say they had found it? Doesn't sound right.

so i clicked to her blog homepage and this is what she wrote Sunday:

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Sunday, February 19, 2006
update & thanks
It's encouraging to know there is a community of people who share my outrage and frustration. This post was certainly intended as nothing more than an expression of that frustration, not a call for angry mob justice.

Thanks for your support and creative suggestions. I am truly appalled by the more obnoxious posts on this thread, especially those directed at a child. I will not be posting any names or identifying information here or anywhere else.

I'm hoping that the wrong here is righted through legal and official channels, which I'm actively pursuing, and if not, that what goes around comes around.

More updates - and hopefully, pix from Hawaii - soon.

http://lostcamera.blogspot.com/

Jenny · 02-21-2006, 01:10 PM

Good for her.

Good attitude to have about it all, actually.

Daedalus · 02-21-2006, 01:25 PM

Yeah, that's really taking the high road--very noble. If it were me, I'd be sending cartoons of the prophet Mohammed to every paper in the country, and putting that b!tch down as the artist. In her mind she actually thinks she's a good person. I got news for that b!tch. She's a scumbucket lowlife thief.

zero2dash · 02-21-2006, 01:34 PM

[Lewis Black]
I say we all get in our cars and go kick ass.
[Lewis Black]

Seriously - if I was this person and I had the money...I'd go up there personally and take the thing back after I beat the hell out of the family. Then I'd come back to the US and say "well you can't prosecute me because it's a CANADIAN problem and I live in the US."

02-21-2006, 08:29 AM	#2
gwilks98 Vice Admiral Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: StL Posts: 4,300	I would take a picture of my big white butt and send it back to her son. That's rediculous. __________________ "I know the pieces fit, cause I watched them fall away." "Cold silence has A tendancy to Atrophy any Sense of compassion." MJK

02-21-2006, 08:32 AM	#3
mcs328 Admiral Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Maryland Posts: 6,578	I saw the post on Boing Boing. Boing Boing is being 'sued' for the post by some Canadian lawyer who probably isn't one which is a crime. http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/20...lawer_thr.html __________________

02-21-2006, 09:27 AM	#4
DarkFury Secretary of the Navy Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Chillin' N Da 'Hood Posts: 34,997	Man.. if those folks left a "return address" on the package... I'd be sending the authorities to their house to reclaim my property. Better yet, I'd do a reverse lookup on their phone number... Either way I'd be getting my property back. If the camera brought THAT much joy to the kid, then I'd have the parents sending me some money to help buy me a new one if they love that one so much. __________________ DarkFury's Pimptopia - Don't Hate the Playa, Hate the Game! Home of the Original OG Pimp (accept NO imitations)

02-21-2006, 10:36 AM	#5
WhiskeyPapa Rear Admiral Upper Half Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: 45° 11' 35" North Latitude, 95° 8' 37" West Longitude Posts: 3,427	I would make a hobby out of calling her. I'd call every day, perhaps several times a day. I think the original poster should send a few links to the perp, and threaten to reveal the name and phone number of the thief unless the camera is returned. This story is generating some outrage here in the states. I'm sure he could make her life a living hell. __________________

02-21-2006, 10:40 AM	#6
cadetevon Rear Admiral Upper Half Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San Diego Posts: 3,388	This made me so ANGRY that I went over to snopes.com to see if it was fake... I was hoping it was. It's not listed there (and I did several different searches). So yah, I'm still pi$$ed off. Grrr. __________________ Yvonne Funny: My Next Wife.

02-21-2006, 12:18 PM	#8
Jenny Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Kansas City area Posts: 10,947	Contact the newspapers. Here in the US & in Canada. At this point, it's about more than the freakin camera. What lessons are those people teaching their son? **ing *****s. __________________ Check out my spoilers for over 20 shows @ SpoilerFix.com Check out my TV blog, where I post weekly & daily TV schedules, TV news, interviews with TV stars & more! All new TV forums as well @ TV Is My Pacifier

02-21-2006, 12:29 PM	#9
Merlin Admiral Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Square On My Arse Posts: 7,410	In the long run at least she got her pictures back. Maybe next time she will be more careful with her things. __________________

02-21-2006, 01:10 PM	#13
Jenny Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Kansas City area Posts: 10,947	Good for her. Good attitude to have about it all, actually.

02-21-2006, 01:25 PM	#14
Daedalus Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 824	Yeah, that's really taking the high road--very noble. If it were me, I'd be sending cartoons of the prophet Mohammed to every paper in the country, and putting that b!tch down as the artist. In her mind she actually thinks she's a good person. I got news for that b!tch. She's a scumbucket lowlife thief.

02-21-2006, 01:34 PM	#15
zero2dash Commander Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fenton, MO - but I wish I was at the beach. ANY beach. Posts: 1,367	[Lewis Black] I say we all get in our cars and go kick ass. [Lewis Black] Seriously - if I was this person and I had the money...I'd go up there personally and take the thing back after I beat the hell out of the family. Then I'd come back to the US and say "well you can't prosecute me because it's a CANADIAN problem and I live in the US."

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