You know that would be disappointing but fine. I think there is more clarity than that to this issue, but the children keep dragging this into the gutter so we fight on!!!!!!
And what if the GS had told her to hang onto it until they notified her otherwise? If that happpened, wouldn't that be a sufficient reason? Fact is, if she wanted to keep it, she would've. Don't think you did anything to change her mind.
If people would stop changing my OP or posting suppositions which undermine the OP. In my initial post, I called her a turkey in the next to last line, yet some here are stuck on my campaign of distortion to profile her as an evil b****. Some continue to try and assert that I think it was her intention to steal the camera anyway. Check out post 16. Most of her defenders have to fabricate some imaginary issue (illness, unemployment et al) that justifies her sluggishness when she offered no such excuse for herself. I think she is just an insensitive clod. If people participating in this were more basically honest or sincere, I would not have to return to the basics so often. I posted this story because I thought it portrayed a good example of how not to live in a community-- her contribution. Alas, the usual dorks want to turn me into the villain. Not sure if they do it due to their own stupidity, to their own lack of common decency or to their desire to just have some "fun." In what world do you walk off knowingly with someone else's likely valuable property and take 37 days to return it and only then likely due to a notice of police inquisition?
What circumstances do we not know? She told the GS authorities that she had taken the camera because she thought it belonged to her friend. It didn't and so she took what, 7-10 days, to call the Scouts back and so "OOPS!" You're giving me too much credit. It's pretty certain that she returned the camera one day after she was told that the law was closing in on her!
According to the GS, an organization widely known for lying, she stopped replying to emails and answering or returning phone calls. That's what they told my wife and that's why I put it in gear myself. Personally we had a graduation coming up last week and a family reunion this week and we needed our camera.
You don't know what the GS instructed her to do. And you don't know how diligently the GS tried to get the camera back to you. 100% speculation. It doesn't sound like the lady did anything wrong. Based on the fact that you were able to contact her so easily and set up a meeting, it would seem that the GS dropped the ball. And if that's the case, it would make sense that the GS would take quick action once police intervention was threatened. I highly doubt the GS told the woman about your threats.
Yet you were able to contact her and set up a meeting so easily... Maybe you have a magic phone that compels people to answer? You wanted your camera back. It's an expensive camera and you wouldn't have peace of mind until it was back in your possession. Simple as that. No need to make excuses like graduations or family reunions.
So you subscribe to the theory that the Girl Scouts just patently lie? I mean I'm only citing what they told us while you hold the secret truth? C'mon.... My wife expressed concern over things taking so long. If the GS had instructed her to "just hold on to the camera," don't you think the GS would have told us that? They didn't. Instead, all they could tell us was that the lady had stopped responding back to them. I do think the GS dropped the ball. Their lack of concern is disappointing but that doesn't excuse Camera Lady's lack of forthright initiative. As a few have said here: if you walk away with someone else's property and you've made a mis-judgment, you hastily correct the mistake. Don't take 10 days and then disappear only to re-surface 27 days later and expect a pat on the back and/or a reward. That is just not right.
Now you're just jerking off.... Magic phone? I never even talked to the Lady. Never met her. Nothing. I only talked to the Girl Scouts once and I'm pretty sure they answer the phone everytime. I didn't make excuses. I told no one that we had events upcoming. That's just what prompted me to get involved. What else are you going to pull out of your arse?
I subscribe to the theories that the GS employees are human, humans make mistakes, and humans try to cover their mistakes. Do you always believe everything you're told? Doesn't "she hasn't responded back to us." sound a lot better than "oh, I haven't followed up on it."? Remember, the GS aren't a lost-and-found service, and you aren't a priority to them. And once you threaten police action, do you really think they're going to say anything even remotely incriminating? Like I said, after she reported it, you don't know what the GS instructed her to do. And she didn't disappear. You were able to get ahold of her pretty easily.
Ok, your wife talked to her, not you. Whatever. Point is, GS said they the lady wasn't communicating with them. Considering your wife was able to contact the lady with relative ease, I find the GS's statement hard to believe. I think it's time this thread died. You're clearly not going to change your mind and you're too narrow minded to look at things objectively.
Sure people make mistakes, but this wasn't a case of one phone call not yielding results because somebody dropped the ball or forgot the message. My wife called several times. When I called a couple of weeks later, I put them on a short lease because the top administrator told me that their person who had been involved was out on the campground and she would take it up with her first thing when she came in after lunch and call me back. No callback on Thursday. No callback on Friday. Letter in the mail on Saturday. Callback on Monday. I can only go by what the GS told me but, as I've said, the Camera Lady has her own lack of initiative to account for. The Scouts really did nothing wrong other than not being vigilant about our situation. Check out their motto above; that's something they are supposed to be good at. In my letter, I told them that if I were to involve the police the Scouts is the only place I have to go since they won't/can't release a name. Further I told them they are guilty of no crime but that they are witnesses to what has transpired. Since I have no place else to turn, get ready. I figured they knew that dealing with the police would be a lot more time-consuming and involved than in just getting in gear and resolving the problem. That's exactly what happened. And yes, the Scouts are a lost and found service. You should see the great mound of stuff that they try to help return at the end of every session: valuable stuff like T-shirts, bathing suits, flip-flops etc. They lovingly spread it out on the lawn-- must take an hour or so-- we're talking 300 or so campers. It's not their primary duty but it is part of their job because at an event like that stuff gets mis-laid, mis-placed or mistakenly taken...
Ha! It's incumbent on me to change my mind but not you? That's a winning idea you have there sport! Thanks but I'll stick to some time-honored traditions of integrity and diligence and responsibility rather than stoop to the low expectations of the critics here. The threat of police involvement is the one likely variable that made this "easy." Don't believe that? What else could have made it easy?
