Current mood:

amused

Picture morality
[man, I kept hoping one of y'all would report this so I wouldn't have to put down the alcohol and get off my lazy arse]

Meet Judith. Judith lost her camera while on vacation in Hawaii.

I lost my camera on my first-ever trip to Hawaii, along with 500+ pictures. Since Hawaii is pretty well documented on Flickr, I thought I'd create a trip journal with the pictures of strangers who had taken similar photographs. You won't get to see me swimming in a waterfall, though. Oh well.



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.


It seems their 9YO has recently been diagnosed with diabetes and also became enamored of someone else's expensive camera.

...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.

Yup, they're going to let him keep it.

The real fun begins, where else? in the comments.

Posters' suggestions run from publishing all pertinent info to just the city said family reside in. Some helpful folks want to send the kid candybars to enable his diabetes. Others think the OP will lose any moral credibility if she posts contact info. Still others wonder why the OP is so upset, and maybe the kid and the family need the camera more than she does. Of course, some see holes in the time line of the story and call bullshit. Not just on there not even being a kid, but on the whole story, calling the OP an attention whore.

I'll just keep watching.

ETA: oh those internet lawyerz.

ETA: she's updated her blog, but turned off comments