Canadians… what a bunch of jerks
Here’s a story that was about 2.54 centimeters away from being heartwarming. This woman (I don’t know who she is) was on vacation in Hawaii, and she lost her camera, which was full of her vacation picures. Not being one to let a missing camera keep her down, she hit up Flickr when she got home and put together a nice little blog of the places she visited using other people’s pictures.
Then the story got more interesting. A park ranger called her recently to tell her that a Canadian couple found the camera. She called the Canadians, hoping to offer a reward. It didn’t work out quite like she was hoping…
“Well,” she said, “we have a bit of a situation. You see, my nine year old son found your camera, and we wanted to show him to do the right thing, so we called, but now he’s been using it for a week and he really loves it and we can’t bear to take it from him.”
But it gets better…
“And he was recently diagnosed with diabetes, 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.”
Head over there for the whole story and some really interesting ideas from the commenters about what she should do to these jerks.
February 20th, 2006 at 10:21 am
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February 20th, 2006 at 11:17 am
These people are giving a bad name to us Canadians. My guess is that they are probably french Canadians — those damn french.
February 20th, 2006 at 11:27 am
Mike’s a Canadian? This changes my entire view on The Uber Geeks.
February 20th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Mike, your only real recourse here is to become the Canadian Batman and hunt them down.
February 25th, 2006 at 10:04 am
Chris: I think that is my only option at this point. Beware evildoers!
Justin: No sense in bringing down all the Über Geeks. I don’t blame Chris for you — although I do bug him about it a lot.
February 25th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Mike, I haven’t ever met you and yet I think I may be falling in love.
February 27th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
If that’s the case Justin you can just keep on loving from a distance I won’t be meeting you any time soon — ah, let’s be realistic, I won’t be meeting you ever.
February 27th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
I’m married anyway Mike, so it’ll remain just a fantasy… a daydream where you come rescue me from pirates and we sail off into the sunset…
February 27th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Now you tell me. I think I might have to meet your wife now ;^)