Alan Murphy said he was "over the moon" when he got his camera back—in Australia!—from a family of dedicated amateur detectives in New York City.
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By Brian Bergstein, The Associated Press
At dusk on New Year's Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery.
Sitting on the back seat was a nice Canon digital camera. Gunderson asked the driver which previous passenger might have left it, but the cabbie didn't seem to care. So Gunderson brought it home and showed it to her fiancé, Brian Ascher. They decided that the only right thing to do was to find the owner.
But how? The only clues were the pictures on the camera: typical tourist snapshots, complete with a visit to the Statue of Liberty....
READ ON at MSNBC
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Mike (Thanks to Erl Houston)
That story made me feel warm and fuzzy all over.
Posted by: Alex | Friday, 25 January 2008 at 09:22 PM
That is extremely cool.
Posted by: Ryan Brenizer | Friday, 25 January 2008 at 10:17 PM
I agree. Cool story. Plus, it's a nice counterpart to yesterday's "Scoundrels" post!
Posted by: mcananeya | Saturday, 26 January 2008 at 06:02 AM
Bravo!
Posted by: charlie d | Saturday, 26 January 2008 at 07:07 AM
Makes me think I should stick my email address inside the memory door on my camera... I can always hope that maybe if lost I'd be so lucky as to get it back.
Posted by: Chris S. | Saturday, 26 January 2008 at 08:05 AM
What a great story! Most people would have easily given up, or not even tried. As a tip to everyone, label your memory cards, and keep an address card in your camera case/bag. The other thing to remember is the good karma gained by returning a lost item to it's owner.
Posted by: Sean | Saturday, 26 January 2008 at 08:15 AM
A wonderful story! It is really good to hear both about the honesty of the people who found the camera and their dedication to finding the owner.
Posted by: Frank Brault | Saturday, 26 January 2008 at 10:12 AM
That is a great story. Thanks for pointing me to it. E
Posted by: Ernest Theisen | Saturday, 26 January 2008 at 10:57 AM
WTOP?
Wow. I know you were starting to add to your media empire by starting photoborg.org, but now you have your own radio station?!?!?
Posted by: Joe in LA | Saturday, 26 January 2008 at 11:42 AM
Dear Chris,
What a fine idea! I'm gonna go do that to all my cameras right now.
pax / Ctein
Posted by: Ctein | Saturday, 26 January 2008 at 04:45 PM
It's so nice to hear this story with a happy ending! It's not always so: In November, I left my favorite pocket cam, my Ricoh GX-100, slung over the back of a chair in a pub in Toronto. Of course, it had (still has?) all the pictures from my then current trip with my daughter, including those of my Mother's 85th Birthday Party on it. I put notices all over the place, on the web and in real life. I tried to make myself as easy to find as possible. To no avail as I never heard anything about it again. What didn't I do? Put a business card in the Camera Case; mark the camera somehow with my name and phone number; download the pictures to my laptop while I still had them.....
I have since replace my beloved GX-100 with a G9 - also a lovely camera, but lacking, somehow, in passion. Have I changed my ways with my new camera? What do you think??
Posted by: Hugh | Sunday, 27 January 2008 at 06:07 PM