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Camera lost, but not quite found.

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I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
Pretty funny story... you can go to the blog site and read some of the comments by other users. :lol:

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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.

I do, however, have the photos. Thanks again to the Flickr community for loaning me yours in the interim.
posted by judith at 4:46 PM
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If your son needs a camera...but him his own!!! I agree with sng. I'd go to Canada and get the camera. I'd bring a gun too...it's not like they'd stop u at the border. The canadas let everything in their country. They are just happy to have you cuz it's such crap up there that any american who wants to come and waste their time there is more than welcome by them.

Then go to her house...and steal her diabetic son at gunpoint. Then when she calls you and asks for her son back, you can say:

"Well i've already spent a lot of money on feeding him and stuff, plus my kids are really attached to him now, and love having him around. They've had bad luck with friends, and now that your son has come along, they feel they have good luck. But i'll send you some pictures of your son and $50, and we'll call it even."
 
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scarletandgrey said:
I'd probably drive to the ladies house and get the camera myself. I don't care that it's in Canada it's the principality of the issue. Fucking french
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Actually Canada is governed by a Prime Minister, so it isn't a principality. You're probably thinking of Monaco or Liechtenstein. Honest mistake, I get them mixed up with Canada all the time :p
 
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JonathanXC said:
Then go to her house...and steal her diabetic son at gunpoint. Then when she calls you and asks for her son back, you can say:

"Well i've already spent a lot of money on feeding him and stuff, plus my kids are really attached to him now, and love having him around. They've had bad luck with friends, and now that your son has come along, they feel they have good luck. But i'll send you some pictures of your son and $50, and we'll call it even."
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:rofl: :rofl:
 
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