interesting news article

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01/28/missing.camera.ap/index.html

Wow! Great story
Matt

So,.......What is the moral of this story??
Don't lose your equipment in a N.Y.cab. The once in a trilion possebility of getting it returned by a honest finder, already has happened.
Martin.

I got my frst Pentax DSLR, a *istDS with a Tamron 28-200 lens, because somebody had left it in a taxi.

It was handed in to lost & found at a police station in London by the cab driver. After the statutory holding period it was unclaimed and handed back to the cab firm who then put it on eBay.

I snapped it up ( no pun intended )for £100.00 knowing the mode dial to be broken (maybe why it was left in the cab). I had the dial (broken printed circuit board) fixed by Pentax and it worked great.

It wasn't a cheap experience though. Since then I've bought about 4 *istD's (one left) and a K10D plus a shed load of lenses having caught the Pentax digital bug.

So if you're not into photography and you find an expensive looking camera in a cab . . . leave it there, it'll save you a small fortune.

PS: All the images were wiped from the camera's CF card by the police for data protection reasons (they said).

Cheers,

I hope everyone takes my earlyer post as mild joking as it was intended. It are stories like the one Don posted, that keep remembering us that are still some honest people arround, in this world. And all those honest people diserve a mention in the local paper or on the local news.
Martin.

I once left a Pentax slung over the back of a chair in a Milan restaurant and didn't realise until a heart-beating hour later. Rushed back to Bifi Scala and asked in pidgin Italian about my lost 'camera'. Met with blank, astonished stares (or should that be'stairs') - camera, of course, being the Italian for 'room'. Then suddenly an inspired look from the Head Waiter with the exclamation, 'Ah! machina photographica!'. We were happily reunited.

Not everyone on the planet is bad, most are really honest people.

My wife and I went on an Alaska Cruise last May.
The last stop was in Victoria BC where we did more shopping (That's why I think we have wife's) On returning to the ship around 7pm loaded to the gills I thought everything had gone through the Xray machine.
This was our final night on board and we packed around midnight. It was only then I noticed my camera missing. I rushed down to the Customer Service desk and lo and behold it had been handed in. On the way down in the elevator was a lady who had left a very expensive diamond ring in one of the ships public bathrooms. (She had taken it off to wash her hands and like me had a senior moment) She did this in the afternoon and did not realize it was missing from her finger until getting ready for bed. It also had been handed in.
Thank god for a couple of honest people.

RG.