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Subject: [Leica] I left my Leica on a train
From: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Tue Jul 15 16:36:32 2008
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Kyle,

I left my Leica outfit behind three times:

1. In a hotel parking lot in Ensenada, Mexico, next to my Porsche

2.  On a deck chair of a tour boat in Kobe, Japan

3. Under the table in a pub in Lake Windermere, England

They were all returned to me safely!

Jerry


Kyle Cassidy wrote:
> Yup. On the 177 from Boston to Washington D.C.. I had my trusty Leica
> d300 with the 12-24mm on the seat next to me, a conductor walked past
> somewhere in Rhode Island and said "you can't put personal items on the
> seats sir," so I stuck it _under_ my seat and ... six hours later,
> grabbed my suitcase from the overhead and went home. I didn't realize
> that my camera wasn't with me till the next morning. I figured for sure
> someone would turn it in to lost and found but nope. Luckily, I'd copied
> off all of the image files so it's just money. 
>
> Called my insurance company this morning and they're supposed to have
> someone call me tomorrow so we'll see if "just money" is $1000 or $3000.
>
> So let's hear your lost camera stories.
>
>
>   


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