Camera unlost, but not quite found

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I searched but didn't see this posted...found this and thought I would share...

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.
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That sucks ass my friend. I feel for you because I am a nice guy I would have gladly sent you everything I found when I found the camera.

Perfect example, I found a dude's Franklin Planner in a shopping cart while leaving a local store just before Thanksgiving to find out he just moved and had all of his personal info in it like his driver's license, social security card, and his last pay stub from work. In this day in age with Identity Theft, a lesser person could have stole the man's identity and stole from him but being the nice person I am since he had his phone number in the planner I called him up and verified which address he wanted me to ship the planner to since his driver's license had his old address. So, he got it a few days later and he called me to thank me for doing such a nice thing for him.
 
Canada and the US have extradition treaties. Talk to the FBI or some US-based international agency, explain to them what happened, and go from there.

I, personally, would NOT let this slide, and would not rest until I've either gotten my camera back (whole) or, have nailed their ass so hard, they would beg me to take my camera back.
 
Son of a BITCH. File a police report, now. She has effectively stolen your camera. It's bad and all about the kid but that is NOT the question here.

Don't play this bullshit moral card, lady. You took the first step to return it to the rightful owner - reporting it in the first place. But it's obvious now you did that thinking "There's no way the owner will come after it." Well guess what, you got your foot caught in your mouth and now you are making up bullshit to keep it away from them?

No, this is a modified version of stealing. File a report, dude. There's no other way. When they don't even own up to a deal you are cutting them, it's time to take matters into your hands.

Edit: Well, whoever this happened to, I hope you are reading this.
 
[quote name='Ugamer_X']This isn't the OP's story. He just found the story and reposted it here.[/quote]
Hmm, I just noticed the first line...
Was a tad bit difficult to decipher, at first.
 
Show that bitch you don't take shit even if her son is dying. Kick her door down and take your camera back.

edit: [quote name='Ugamer_X']This isn't the OP's story. He just found the story and reposted it here.[/QUOTE]

I was wondering why he put he didn't see this posted
 
The FBI can be contacted twenty-four hours a day, every day. Here’s how:

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If they had no intentions of returning the camera, they shouldn't have reported that they found a lost camera to the park ranger (not that they should have kept it, I'm just saying if they watned to steal it, why even bother reporting they found it?).
 
[quote name='YoshiFan1']If they had no intentions of returning the camera, they shouldn't have reported that they found a lost camera to the park ranger (not that they should have kept it, I'm just saying if they watned to steal it, why even bother reporting they found it?).[/QUOTE]


"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."

They wanted to show their son to do the right thing. So the bitch decided to steal it.
 
[quote name='Radioactive_Man']Be glad her son will die.[/quote]

He has diabetes, not stage 3 cancer. If her son was dying then it would make sense on her part. Not that it would be right, but it would be at least justifiable. There's a good chance you'll die defore he does. Even though he could die (unlikely any time soon), he's not terminally sick where you say "eh, screw the parenting, let's make him as happy as possible for the little life he has left".
 
Thats fucked up. I think that the son story is a lie. I think that they found the camera reported it found. Then when they got home they looked up the retail price on the internet and decide to keep it for themselves. They owe us that camera they found it in our country.
 
[quote name='Strell']Inform George Bush.

We will make war on the morrow![/quote]

That totally cracked me up - hilarious!

I know what I would do - call her twice every day, once when I woke up, and once right before going to sleep. Politely asking when my camera was coming home.
 
Is this even TheSilentShadow's (cool name btw) issue? He said that he hadn't seen it here and thought he would share, so who's story is this?
 
Sorry I didn't put it in a Quote...
I wasn't sure how to do that and at the time my wife booted me off the net by picking up the phone, I didn't think it even posted since I got booted.
I just heard about this on the radio today and then looked it up.

Its a shitty thing that the lady did... Hell who even knows if she has a "son"...lol

Edit.... I figured out how to do the Quote thing and fixed the OP
 
why would a sick little kid need a digital camera? Im a healthy guy and barely use mine. Only so many pictures you can take of the sick ward. Bull shit i say...

ON a fun side note, I left my wallet in the BANK for 5 minutes rand back someone turned it in, but took the cash out.... yay!
 
[quote name='Lice']why would a sick little kid need a digital camera? Im a healthy guy and barely use mine. Only so many pictures you can take of the sick ward. Bull shit i say...

ON a fun side note, I left my wallet in the BANK for 5 minutes rand back someone turned it in, but took the cash out.... yay![/QUOTE]

Damn that sucks.

If you ever confront them about it they could just say that's the way they found it.

Unless you know those codes the bills, but who really keeps track of that.
 
Before I went to the police, I'd put a disk with viruses on it and report that that was sent along with the pictures. Just to spice things up a bit. Oh, and a bunch of illegally downloaded mp3s. That would get their attention.
 
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