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Some Humans Are Defective
February 18, 2006
I'd been following Judith's story of her lost camera with great interest until the latest update shocked me:
"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."
Judith's not the mob justice type of person, but if ever there were a good reason for a bunch of nosy curious bloggers to track someone down and make them do the right thing, this would be it for me.
I feel bad for a kid whose parents are that lost and misguided.
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harold 
I was shocked too. The poor kid does have bad luck. He’s got awful parents.
Mike Harris
Unfortunately, I don’t see this as a period where people can research it — there’s nothing to start with, eh?
tian
Judith should post that woman’s contact info on her blog.
I am currently praying for the 9-yr to die in a long and painful death.
Who is with me?
Anil Dash
Tian, though I realize I shouldn’t be offended given the tone of my own post, comments wishing sick children slow painful deaths aren’t welcome here.
Alex Foley
This entire situation is appalling to me. But tracking this family down using the blogosphere and attempting to obtain the stolen property is probably not the best of ideas. Perhaps if 500 interested parties would each donate a dollar instead of using their (arguably much more) valuable time, we could right this situation for everyone.
JCRogers
I know I’d give a dollar. But only if the dollars were to buy the kid a camera. He should return the one he’s got.
Joel Goldstick
I’m surprised to see all the people who want to use the internet to ‘get back’ at these bad people. Someone suggested telling the police. That seems like the easy thing to do. Police have a way of creating a very serious atmosphere. If you steal something and you admit it, its against the law and you’ll be forced to return it.
Alex Foley
Apparently the police have been notified, but the persons who have stolen the camera live in Canada (so I understand) and they will not act believing this is an issue of the United States.
john
buy the kid a camera? what lesson is that? give back the cookie you stole and to help you do that i’ll give you this much bigger better NEWER cookie.. while we may use this model for negotiations with immature nations, i don’t think the best lesson can be learned by the child with this . how about he learn that giving up this camera sucks, but that what is good about it is deeper then the posession of an object and not merely as an upgrade.
tracking people down, buying kids cameras to circumvent the pain of the lession, and especially wishing for death are all pretty bad. i bet just contact them (if we could) would be enough. its our job to help raise all the village children—thats a positive role, not an enforcement/negative role.
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