OK, so I'm digging back into the archives...but stay with me, dear readers, I do have a purpose.
Now and then I like to surf the Internet. Big surprise, no? Well, I came across this interesting blog entry. This poor guy went to Hawaii and lost his camera. Undaunted, he starts a blog about his trip and uses donated travel photos from the good people of Flickr. Heartwarming, right?
But guess what -- that's not all. The park ranger where he lost his camera calls him up and tells him that someone has found his camera! Yay! The park ranger gives him the name and phone number of the person that found the camera, and the owner is now so excited about getting his camera and his travel shots back. Even more heartwarming, right?
He calls the lady that found the camera, and here's where trouble begins. Apparently, the Bad Lady that found the camera let her son play with it. Little Brat falls in love with photography; considers camera a talisman against bad luck. Since Little Brat has just been diagnosed with diabetes, Bad Lady can't bear to take it away from him. (Apparently, she doesn't care if he grows up to be a Diabetic Jerk with no regard for the property of others, so long as he's happy this instant.) Bad Lady wants sympathy from camera owner, as she had to spend a lot of money to get memory cards and a battery charger for the camera that isn't hers, but that she's keeping anyway.
Camera owner and Bad Lady negotiate the return of his memory cards and some chump change to compensate for the loss of the camera. Get this: when he finally gets the package, it contains only CD's with his his travel images. No memory cards, as she needs those now. He calls her back up and asks about it. Her response is basically to tell him to pound sand, and that he's lucky he got the images back at all.
It just so happens that the camera owner is from the US, and the Bad Lady is from Canada, so there's not a lot that can be easily done in a legal sense to get the camera back. Now, we all know that there are poo-poo heads everywhere, so don't make the mistake of thinking that the behavior of one Bad Lady can be construed as a reflection on the ethical standards of all my dear neighbors up north.
So please, dear Internet, if you know who this lady is...please, please give her a couple of slaps up-side the head for me. One for being a selfish moron, and the other for just general purposes.
I hereby donate my "scanned-by-Walmart-from-back-when-I-still-shot-film" image of Blarney Castle to anyone else who's suffered the same misfortune.
Yes, I kissed the stone. Didn't you notice the long post? :)
6 comments:
Great shot. Love the colors..Never tried to scan any of my film shots. Yours looks great!! and love your post as well. Too bad the nice Hawaii Park Ranger didnt keep the camera. I am sure he would have returned it!! All us Hawaii people are nice!!! LOL LOL ..Aloha, Renee
What a piece of work that lady must be. I'm not sure what he can do to get his camera back, but I sure hope the shutter sticks on the kid and his mom has to spend a fortune to get it repaired. Thats such crap people would do that, its the same as stealing. And the photo is just too cool. The angle and the colors are fantastic.
What a C&*t!, What I want to know is why isnt her name and email posted here, and on dpc and many toher sites so we all can let her know what we think of her???
I really hope that lady comes to senses soon and decides to return the camera!
I had a similar misfortune about 10 years back, my camera along with the pouch with used films got stolen almost at the end of the trip, the pain of loosing the pictures was more than the camera!! but would have been nice to get both back, never did!
Love the saturated green and the angle the shot has been taken!
Booo bad lady from Canada!! She gives us a bad name! Most of us return things. At the very least, we keep our word if we say we're going to send something.
Cool shot!
Wow, I can't believe she has the nerve to do that. What a joke and she will feel guilty later on in life..i hope!
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