Find money. Keep it?

[LittleSin]

I'm not having much luck finding the owner of this camera.

The cops were very unhelpful. I'm also beginning to think they may be out of towners...the hospital this baby in the picture was born in is in Edmonton.

However, I enalarged on of the pics can found a first and last name...its messy though. When I searched the names I got 40 matches in edmonton area.

 

[makare]

As sad as that is LittleSin it's seriously awesome that you are trying. A lot of people wouldn't bother. kudos to you. :uhhuh:

 

[LittleSin]

I feel like an idiot.

FACEBOOK. Type in the name. Lots of newfoundlanders in Edmonton area...find one thats set as born in st. johns, moved to edmonton.

Guess what.

We have a match...and a baby girl in the profile pic that looks an awful lot like the one in the pics. Leet's see how this pans out!

 

[makare]

Yay! Facebook saves the day.

 

[Seraphyn]

Kudo's for trying to get that camera back to them. Losing the pictures of your baby would really suck, being irreplaceable and such.

 

[Sparhawk]

They've gone a year and haven't downloaded the pictures from their camera? Idiots.

Glad that you got the camera associated with the owners though. Doesn't change that they're idiots though.

 

[makare]

Well I have taken the photos of my camera but not removed them from the actual camera. They may have done that. Multiple copies kind of thing.

 

[checkeredhat]

They've gone a year and haven't downloaded the pictures from their camera? Idiots.

Glad that you got the camera associated with the owners though. Doesn't change that they're idiots though.

You'd be surprised how much this happens. When I worked at the photolab, we'd get these people coming in with their camera, spend 4+ hrs sifting through thousands of photos on 3 different memory cards, and then get all indignant when we warned them that sending that many photos through was likely to crash to system. If it actually sent through fine, when we told them their 700 picture order was going to take a few hours to print they'd be SHOCKED that the pictures didn't print immediately. It was not a rare occurance at all. It was about every other day.

That's the problem with really huge memory cards. People just go longer and longer without uploading their photos or printing them out.

 

[Joe Johnson]

The other possibility is they DID back them up but not delete them. I've done that before, just so I have another place with pics saved in case of data loss on my HD.

 

[sixpackshaker]

That is awesome Littlesin. And yes as a computer support specialist. I can tell you with out a doubt, they do not have their pic's backed up.

 

[Adam]

I once tossed a computer into the recycling depot at the local landfill. Some enterprising computer nerd took it out of there and got it back up and running, with all the naughty pics of my wife intact.

Sometimes backing up pictures is a bad thing

 

[fade]

I once tossed a computer into the recycling depot at the local landfill. Some enterprising computer nerd took it out of there and got it back up and running, with all the naughty pics of my wife intact.

Sometimes backing up pictures is a bad thing

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[Chazwozel]

I once tossed a computer into the recycling depot at the local landfill. Some enterprising computer nerd took it out of there and got it back up and running, with all the naughty pics of my wife intact.

Sometimes backing up pictures is a bad thing

How the heck did you figure out that he found the pictures (or even got the PC working)?

edit.

Oh shit...

 

[Azurephoenix]

I once tossed a computer into the recycling depot at the local landfill. Some enterprising computer nerd took it out of there and got it back up and running, with all the naughty pics of my wife intact.

Sometimes backing up pictures is a bad thing

Yikes man... that's not good...

As to Chaz's original question. I will always make an effort to return money found in a wallet as long as I have some kind of ID to work from. If there's no ID... well... that depends on where I found the wallet. I might turn it in to a lost and found or something if it's applicable... otherwise... finders keepers!

 

[Adam]

I once tossed a computer into the recycling depot at the local landfill. Some enterprising computer nerd took it out of there and got it back up and running, with all the naughty pics of my wife intact.

Sometimes backing up pictures is a bad thing

How the heck did you figure out that he found the pictures (or even got the PC working)?

edit.

Oh shit...[/QUOTE]

He called to let me know that he had recovered my PC and that there were pictures on there that I might want to have back *hint hint*. I just told him to wipe it, but I'm sure it's in someone's spankbank at this point. He tracked me down through my meticulous naming system, making sure everyone's name is in the name of the picture. He knew a friend of a friend that knew a person in my picture - they talked to him, he told them who I was and they called me up.

Lesson learned.

 

[makare]

my pics all have numbers.

 

[Adam]

my pics all have numbers.

It's a work habit. All pictures get names, locations and dates in case we have to use any and need to get rights signed off for publication.

 

[LittleSin]

Havenèt heard from the lady via facebook.

This is looking grim.

Itès putting me in a terrible mood to because Ièm getting all kinds of phone calls from people looking for their lost cameras...and some of these stories are terrible.

This one lady has terminal cancer. She came back to Newfoundland to do a video for her infant daughter, something to show her where her mom grew up. Something to share.

Then someone stole the camera.