Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I was 18 or 19, living in Denmark, I once went skinnydipping with some friends at a local beach--needless to say, in the middle of the night after a long, liberally sprinkled party. The next morning, besides the hangover, I had to deal with the fact that my wallet was nowhere to be seen. I concluded I must have dropped it on the beach. Given the circumstances, I could not remember exactly where on the beach we had been, so going back to look for it was a hopeless quest. I set in motion the process of replacing my drivers' license and whatever other documents I had in the wallet--but 3 or 4 days later the wallet, with all contents, including money, intact, arrived in the mail from Germany. Some German tourists had found it the next day and since I had several things in the wallet with my address on them, they just sent it back to me with a friendly note. Nice experience. Nathan pmcc wrote: > I spent the summer after I graduated college traveling > around Europe for the first time, taking photos with a > very pretty IIIG and collapsible 'cron that I had > invested the then vast sum of $160 to acquire. One > night in West Berlin toward the end of the trip > I was absolutely heartsick to realize that I > had left the camera in an U-Bahn station. Before > leaving I filed a loss report with the local > police, with no illusions of ever seeing the > camera again. I was just able to console > myself by turning my thoughts towards home. > > Lost Leica forgotten, I was back at my university > three months later when a package arrived for me > at the post office. An upright citizen had > turned my camera in and the Berlin authorities > were returning it intact to me, without further > ado. I was gratified by the goodness of strangers > and impressed by the efficiency of the West Berlin > police. > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS! General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog