This lady knew from ~Day 2 that she had taken a camera that didn't belong to her friend and, in fact, belonged to one of the other Scouting parents. She then took another week to notify anyone of that fact when a 1-minute phone call would have done the trick. Then she stopped communicating. Then she returned the camera a day after being goosed by the Scouts due to my letter. The lady knew she had someone's camera for 36 days... after her best guess proved false.
Wrong. Camera Lady ceased communicating with the Scouts for about 15-20 days; at least that's what they told my wife. The main point is that she knew for 36 days or so that she had willfully but erroneously left the Camp with a camera that didn't belong to her or to her friend that she had originally thought. Had you done that, would you sit around for weeks waiting for someone else to rectify the situation?
Yes it was tossed into her gut from a few feet away-- not fired like a missile but tossed like a horseshoe or something. At any rate, no way to handle the transfer of a camera.
Why are you so desperate to make excuses for this woman? She showed up in a red car instead of a silver car and she showed up without her phone. Would you ever try to rendezvous with a stranger in a parking lot without your phone and in a car other than the one you told them to be on the lookout for? The complex instructions consisted of three elements: 1. Time: 6:30 PM ET, 2: Place: grocery store parking lot, 3. Vehicle: Silver Town & Country Van My wife wrote these down but then was compelled to eat them only after memorizing them. I wrote this earlier, but in order to prove that she had been there at the appointed time, the lady took a picture of the clock in her car. Mrs. G said that you could clearly see the red hood of the wrong car in the background of the photo. When the lady griped about having to come back a second time, my wife pointed out that she came in a different colored car without her cellphone... I would imagine that it is at that point that Camera Lady tossed the camera at my wife.
And why do you trust the GS? Either the GS dropped the ball or the lady dropped the ball. And after you threatened police action against the GS, do you honestly expect them to say anything even remotely incriminating about themselves? Think about it. GS says they can't reach the lady. On the other hand, once you have the lady's contact info, not only are you able to reach her, but you have the camera returned to you within a day. It doesn't sound like the lady had a communication problem at all. She didn't sit around for weeks. Within 10 days, she had notified the GS that she had it. And you'll never know what the GS instructed her to do.
Both the GS and the Lady (and my wife) are at fault. It is possible for all parties to be at fault. However, I do think the GS are generally a trustworthy organization. I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't release her name to us -- without her permission-- for legal reasons. What if I had gone over there and keyed her car in revenge? The Scouts would be liable for divulging private information that led to damages. As I said earlier, if I had done what she did, I wouldn't sit around waiting for someone else to fix the problem that I created. Show some initiative. In my letter to the GS, I said that they were only witnesses to the events in the sense that they had had contact with someone who admitted to them that she had walked off with a camera that wasn't hers. They knew who that was and they couldn't/wouldn't tell us. I'm pretty sure the GS told the lady of my intentions and she gave them permission to give out her contact information.
person tossing me my $1000 camera after a month >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> person keeping the camera for themselves
Seems like you're looking for reasons to vilify this woman, but your reasons are mostly speculation and somewhat refuted by the facts.
You whine about giddyup supposedly speculating, yet you do the same with regard to what happened to FFB. Hypocrisy at its best. Well done!
Just to say: From the camera lady's perspective, she may have no idea she took a $1000 camera. She may think it's just a normal run-of-the-mill camera that costs $100 (or less) - hence the delay.
