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Sorry, but this sounds fake.

by Sujan 14y ago

alenart 14y ago
How so? The only thing I'm skeptical about is I would imagine his local PD would be way busy to go on a petty theft bust but other than that it sounds legit.
- fsckin 14y ago
  Depending on the lens, it could be grand theft.
  - alenart 14y ago
    Good point, GT is above what amount in California? Unless it's really high, it's really easy for a lens to fall in that GT category.
    - fsckin 14y ago
      Wikipedia says $400.
- justin66 14y ago
  I assume their easy cooperation indicates the guy is living in a reasonably affluent suburb where the police are both well-equipped and not very busy.
- andreyf 14y ago
  They weren't too busy because the author did all the work for them: all they had to do was walk half a block and arrest a guy.
- crusso 14y ago
  would be way busy to go on a petty theft bust Please... this was probably the only real crime solving these guys did all week. I'm going to leave myself open to the "citation needed" charge by generalizing here, but doesn't most police activity involve pointless traffic stops, traffic direction, prosecution of victimless vice crimes, domestic disturbance calls, and paperwork?
aaron695 14y ago
Funny I think so to. I've heard to much of the story before, it seems like they have mashed a few of the classics together to create it. Edit: Or maybe I just read the original story on Reddit.
sahaskatta 14y ago
I'm pretty sure it's real. I went to high school and college with Jeff Hu. He shared the links to this on Facebook. Definitely happened. There's the whole reddit thread too: http://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/1ajifl/someone_stole_my_camera_found_the_ad_for_it_on/ http://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/1ajifl/someone_... I'm not sure he or anyone else had anything to gain out of lying about this. I had a Canon T2i for quite sometime and it definitely does embed the camera's serial into each captured image.
lucb1e 14y ago
Downvoted for unconstructive criticism without arguments.
- Sujan 14y ago
  You're right, I was too lazy to type it out. Should have just not posted at all then. My reasoning was that it sounded too clean. Either it is fake, and just the written for linkbait (there were enough successful similar articles online to justify someone trying that) or the x-th rewrite of a story. As another reply to my post here pointed out it orriginated on Reddit, so probably the second thing and I was wrong. Sorry.

Sorry, but this sounds fake.

by Sujan 14y ago

Sorry, but this sounds fake.

How so? The only thing I'm skeptical about is I would imagine his local PD would be way busy to go on a petty theft bust but other than that it sounds legit.

fsckin 14y ago
Depending on the lens, it could be grand theft.
- alenart 14y ago
  Good point, GT is above what amount in California? Unless it's really high, it's really easy for a lens to fall in that GT category.
  - fsckin 14y ago
    Wikipedia says $400.
justin66 14y ago
I assume their easy cooperation indicates the guy is living in a reasonably affluent suburb where the police are both well-equipped and not very busy.
andreyf 14y ago
They weren't too busy because the author did all the work for them: all they had to do was walk half a block and arrest a guy.
crusso 14y ago
would be way busy to go on a petty theft bust Please... this was probably the only real crime solving these guys did all week. I'm going to leave myself open to the "citation needed" charge by generalizing here, but doesn't most police activity involve pointless traffic stops, traffic direction, prosecution of victimless vice crimes, domestic disturbance calls, and paperwork?

aaron695 14y ago

Funny I think so to. I've heard to much of the story before, it seems like they have mashed a few of the classics together to create it. Edit: Or maybe I just read the original story on Reddit.

sahaskatta 14y ago

I'm pretty sure it's real. I went to high school and college with Jeff Hu. He shared the links to this on Facebook. Definitely happened. There's the whole reddit thread too: http://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/1ajifl/someone_stole_my_camera_found_the_ad_for_it_on/ http://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/1ajifl/someone_... I'm not sure he or anyone else had anything to gain out of lying about this. I had a Canon T2i for quite sometime and it definitely does embed the camera's serial into each captured image.

lucb1e 14y ago

Downvoted for unconstructive criticism without arguments.

Sujan 14y ago
You're right, I was too lazy to type it out. Should have just not posted at all then. My reasoning was that it sounded too clean. Either it is fake, and just the written for linkbait (there were enough successful similar articles online to justify someone trying that) or the x-th rewrite of a story. As another reply to my post here pointed out it orriginated on Reddit, so probably the second thing and I was wrong. Sorry.