I think to some degree it makes a difference. If you accidentally take something worth $1 million, then that will take your whole attention. You'd decide if you'd keep it or give it back.. but you would take action right away. If you accidentally take something worth $1, then it goes out of mind. Yes $1 million and $1 is exagerrated.. but how much you perceive the cost of something matters.
She didn't accidentally take anything. She chose to take responsibility for an object that she erroneously thought belonged to someone else. The cost doesn't matter. Besides, even if it was a $100 camera, she doesn't know how valuable $100 is to the person the camera belongs to.
I'm just saying from giddyup's side it's this: "This is a big deal. It's $1000 camera. I want it back now." From the lady's side: "What's the big deal? This is just a normal camera. Whoever owns this can wait while I deal with some other stuff. I'm going to push off dealing with this until later.." Just saying that maybe the lady isn't being incredibly insensitive or rude.. she's just behaving in a way we may all behave - chalk it up to human nature.
Why do I have that the impression that the majority of the people telling giddy that this was no big deal would have an absolute conniption fit if they were in a similar situation where the property mistakenly taken was their personal cell phone. 37 days is not pushing something off, it's refusing to take responsibility for a mistake.
In your hypothetical, she should not be comparing her opinion of the value of the camera to the owner's value. I don't consider it human nature to knowingly take responsibility of an item (no one put a gun to her head or asked her to do it) and then slough it off for over a month.
That's kind of like saying ToyCen's wildest conspiracy theory or Swoly's most smilies or Manny's most music-centric thread. I think there's a point after which holding the record for a thing that happens so often becomes irrelevant. It's a damn boring thread for sure but I'm not even confident it's giddyup's most boring 16 page thread of all time. He has many threads 16+ threads that would have to be in contention. His trick is to provide 60% of the thread's content by repeating his OP over and over again. It has an alarming success rate.
I was simply correcting the people who acted as if she sat on her hands for over a month. And whether or not it was responsible depends entirely on the circumstances that we don't know. What we do know is that the camera was returned one day after Giddyup made contact with her.
True, but it's not fair to judge her unless you know why she didn't do it. All we know for certain is that after Giddyup made contact with her, he had the camera back in one day.
Sure it is, she took someone else's camera, that she KNEW was not hers, and didn't turn it in to the camp right away, nor the Girl Scouts. That is not the right thing to do at all.....she knew it was not hers, she should have turned it in pronto.... DD
Horse-hockey! There is no reason (short of coma) it should have taken this woman 37 days to return a camera that she willfully walked off with to its rightful owner. Most of the speculation is proffered by her defendants as in 1) she must have had her reasons or 2) she operates in her own "time zone." Stripped away facts are that she walked off with our camera intentionally and it took aggression on our part to get it back.
