Found Camera
Aug 30th, 2006, 08:31 PM
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Found Camera
We found a nice digital camera at the main overlook on Wolf Creek Pass on Sunday, Aug 27, 2006. Looks like the owners were going east, as there are Pagosa Springs pics at the end. If this is your camera, send us enough info to identify it and we will send it to you.
Aug 30th, 2006, 08:35 PM
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Wouldn't it be better to turn it into the local PD? I would think daisyd that the chances of this camera belong to a Fodorite is quite small.
Also, if it is a Fodorite's camera, how would they contact you? I don't think many people would want to post their home address information on a public forum.
Also, if it is a Fodorite's camera, how would they contact you? I don't think many people would want to post their home address information on a public forum.
Aug 30th, 2006, 10:18 PM
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Wouldn't it be fun if it was a fodorite??
I wouldn't give the camera to the police, I would just give the PD the same info you've given us, along with your phone or email.
If someone calls, they'll refer them to you, and if not, you got a new camera with your conscience clear that you tried to return it.
You might also check if the local paper has free found ads. Many papers do.
I started doing this years ago when a friend who works in a hotel pointed out that the hotel employee who logs in a lost item gets it after a certain time period. I feel that the finder (not the receiving employee)should be rewarded for finding it (by getting to keep it) in the event no one calls to claim it.
I wouldn't give the camera to the police, I would just give the PD the same info you've given us, along with your phone or email.
If someone calls, they'll refer them to you, and if not, you got a new camera with your conscience clear that you tried to return it.
You might also check if the local paper has free found ads. Many papers do.
I started doing this years ago when a friend who works in a hotel pointed out that the hotel employee who logs in a lost item gets it after a certain time period. I feel that the finder (not the receiving employee)should be rewarded for finding it (by getting to keep it) in the event no one calls to claim it.
Aug 30th, 2006, 11:16 PM
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I wish I found a camera. On Monday, after getting back from Hawaii, I couldn't find either of my cameras, the silver one or the black one. Hey, wait a minute, just one c.p. minute!
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Aug 31st, 2006, 09:19 AM
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I lost a camera in northern Michigan in June. Reported it to the police department and to the organizers of the event I attended.
Pretty lousy feeling. Not just the $900 camera, but the photos that were in it.
Keith
Pretty lousy feeling. Not just the $900 camera, but the photos that were in it.
Keith
Sep 4th, 2006, 08:48 AM
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Happy Ending! Thanks to all the people who gave us positive suggestions and feedback on this lost camera. There are no police around on either side for about 50+ miles, so my husband and I took a chance and looked through all of the pictures saved on the camera. We found pics of a group of people building a footbridge in a public park. We finally came across some signage - we had to get a magnifying glass to see it. We searched on the internet for tha name of the park in Colorado and amazingly, it's within two miles of our house. We called the parks and rec folks and asked about the bridge. They put us in touch with an Eagle Scout troop that had built the bridge in July and lo and behold... yes, we found the owners of the camera. It was just amazing that even though we found the camera about 250 miles away from here, the owners live in our home town. We feel like we earned a lot of karma brownie points and the owners gave us a beautiful floral arrangement and a card. It was a good ending.
Sep 4th, 2006, 10:57 AM
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I know how the owner must have felt after his camera was gone. We were on the last day of a two week vacation in Europe. On the final night before heading to the airport in Frankfurt our camcorder was stolen along with the tape with nearly two hours of video on it.
We immediately reported it to the police and they told us it was probably the work of local heroin addicts and we would never see the video camera again and the tape was probably on the bottom of the Rhine river(next to our hotel).
Never got it back. Lost lots of memories.
Lesson learned: remove tape cassets and data cards from your devices when you can not guard them.
We immediately reported it to the police and they told us it was probably the work of local heroin addicts and we would never see the video camera again and the tape was probably on the bottom of the Rhine river(next to our hotel).
Never got it back. Lost lots of memories.
Lesson learned: remove tape cassets and data cards from your devices when you can not guard them.
