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Bad Samaritan
Feb. 20th, 2006 09:13 amA guy who lost his camera on vacation in Hawaii contacts the people that found it, but they refuse to give it back:
"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."
The comments are especially interesting. Several people advise him to contact the finders' local police department, even though he's already said that he did so and they blew him off. Some people try to guilt-trip him (as did the child's mother) because the kid has diabetes. Many people say variations on, "You (or the finders) could afford a trip to Hawaii, therefore you (or the finders) can afford a new camera." It's called living on a budget, folks, look it up. And just a few people get it right by saying that "finders keepers" is not a law.
P.S. Anonymous below pointed me toward his/her/its/their blog, which in turn pointed me toward a link to a Gizmodo article which I hadn't previously seen, which also uses "Bad Samaritan" in the title. Great minds &c.
"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."
The comments are especially interesting. Several people advise him to contact the finders' local police department, even though he's already said that he did so and they blew him off. Some people try to guilt-trip him (as did the child's mother) because the kid has diabetes. Many people say variations on, "You (or the finders) could afford a trip to Hawaii, therefore you (or the finders) can afford a new camera." It's called living on a budget, folks, look it up. And just a few people get it right by saying that "finders keepers" is not a law.
P.S. Anonymous below pointed me toward his/her/its/their blog, which in turn pointed me toward a link to a Gizmodo article which I hadn't previously seen, which also uses "Bad Samaritan" in the title. Great minds &c.
