Thanks Niko :) Im here every day, just also juggling 3 kids (great circus trick) so I don't say much. Still loving Nikon and photography :)

Hey it's Jessi! Long time no hear Jessi. Where have you been hiding? Thanks for sharing that link with us that was funny.

Similarly, did you guys see this?
http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-get-your-camera-back-when-you-lose-it?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DigitalPhotographySchool+%28Digital+Photography+School%29

"His army of Kool Aid drinking Apple fan bois will pay you a visit."

Have they reinvented the electric Kool aid acid test?

poster said:
BTW George Carlin is disappointed in you too.

What the french toast?!? You son of a biscuit eating bulldog!

adamz said:
get a bluetooth keyboard Niko :)

What's the point of the ipad then if I always have to carry around a bluetooth keyboard with me everywhere? I might as well just use a Macbook.

BTW George Carlin is disappointed in you too.

NikoDoby said:
Guys lets keep the ear muffs on for the foul language. I had to edited out the drunk sailor language and you guys have no Mother F-ing idea how hard it is to select and edit small text while using a Mother F-ing ipad keyboard!!!!

Now you have done it!

Expect men in black suits to be knocking on your door soon. Steve Jobs is not pleased. His army of Kool Aid drinking Apple fan bois will pay you a visit.

;p

get a bluetooth keyboard Niko :)

Guys lets keep the ear muffs on for the foul language. I had to edited out the drunk sailor language and you guys have no Mother F-ing idea how hard it is to select and edit small text while using a Mother F-ing ipad keyboard!!!!

Ha! You got me! I just read the last part! That has to be the funniest F-ing post I've ever read on a photography forum!

Serves him right for using canon gear! Hope he has upgraded to Nikon.

Yes having your gear swiped is the worst. I remember my brother left his then still costly, F90X, manfrotto tripod and 80-200mm lens on the side of the highway in death valley back in 2001. Don't ask how, but neither of us thought about it at the time, I blame the insane summer heat melting our brains. Anyways, we get back to out hotel before we realize its missing so we head back to the spot (maybe 50 miles) and obviously its gone. We checked various towns in between and ranger stations with the hopes maybe someone would drop it off but nothing. My brother had to finish the trip with a point and shoot. However, one month later my brother gets his film back in the mail! I guess whoever kept the gear had a partial heart after all. Moral of this story is having gear lost or stolen is definately not fun.

Oops, internet lag.

Sounds like Poster is just a tad mad!

It sucks when people take your stuff, it's kinda like an invasion of privacy.

I hope you get your film back.

Ah, you don't indicate that in the post, so it was unclear.

@ PB PM
Lol no that wasn't me. I read that on the "best of craigslist" and thought he was a good/amusing wordsmith so I posted it here for us to read.

Wow, that sucks poster. :-(

How is Angelica's? mean, for a non-vegetarian, think it would be good for a quck bite?

Hi,

Last night you stole two of my cameras outside Angelica's Kitchen on 2nd Avenue and 12th street.

I figured you'd try to sell them here, unless thieves are photo enthusiasts. You might make an honest living taking photos of "STUFF" you stole, hell that might make a great Gallery Title, "The "STUFF" I Stole: Reflections on Urban Living in The 21st Century". You might even get into Francesca Woodman-style self-portraits that you could take with my stolen cameras, make them real artistic, with a shallow depth of field, that's what you can afford (or I guess, can't afford because you are a damn thief) when you have a 50mm prime lens attached to the Canon A-1 (that's the black one that you stole) that opens up to a 1.4. FUDGE yeah, I'm giving you photography lessons, so at least you can shoot right, I mean what the hell were you gonna do with two cameras that no one wants anyway-- don't try to sell it to some Midwestern tourists in Times Square, man, don't sell it in Times Square in general. It's a 35mm film camera, who the hell wants to pay fro processing now that you can take a picture with your cell phone? Why didn't you steal my cell phone instead? The camera on it is a piece of shit, and you would be making much more money off that, and I hate my phone so you'd be doing me a favor.

In your grubby hands you have a Canon AE-1-- that's the silver one with a zoom lens on it. You can set it to automatic exposure so you wouldn't have to figure out metering or f-stops. Also you can really impress some chicks with the blue-jeans denim strap that comes with it, because you will look like Peter Parker in the sense that you will resemble a nerdy high school photographer from the late 70s. You should really do yourself a favor and get some polyester pants. You will not impress anyone else, however, because it's just about the most basic student camera Canon's ever made.

And that A-1? It doesn't belong to me, so double FUDGE you for stealing my camera and stealing my friend's camera. He got that for $10 from his friend's mom on Long Island, so don't expect to sell it for any more, unless you're selling it to other DONKEYS like yourself. It's got a squeaky shutter and might not take anything past 1/125 (that's the shutter speed, you moron, it means the shutter is open for 1/125 of a second, to refresh your memory), unless you wanna get real artsy and overexpose everything.

Finally, there are some miscellaneous STUFF in there:
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a Firewire 800 Cable - this will not be much of use to you

Camera Logs - like you'd even understand them

a half-read secondhand copy of Albert Camus' The Plague - Listen, you RICHARD. I was 110 pages into that and until I buy another secondhand copy of that book I'll never find out what happened to Dr. Rieux and the rest of the people in Oran. Maybe you could skim through it and summarize what I missed in a book report. I dunno, man, maybe you're in the middle of an existential crisis, that's why you're stealing STUFF, right? to assert your existence or whatever. well, you should read that book. you might get a kick out of it. just don't use it for kindling for your garbage-can fire under the 59th street bridge.

Three rolls of shot film - This is what I'm pissed off about the most. I took some pictures over the weekend with those cameras and they're still loaded with film. I hope you didn't open them in daylight like an idiot, not knowing that the little cardboard square that said "Ektachrome 64" under the viewfinder meant that it's LOADED, you FUDGER. There are shot rolls of Portra 800, 50D, and 1600 in there (film speeds-- the higher the number, the more sensitive the film, you DONKEY) that are pretty important to me, and would have absolutely no use to you. If you could do me a favor and drop those off at Forum Photo on Waverly and Washington Square East-- ask for George (I will not ask him to punch you in the mouth), or just drop it off under the name "Jerk McAllister". You can even shoot the rest of the rolls in those cameras and I will pay for matte prints with a white border for you, so you can show your thief buddies all your photographic skills. I can already picture the great canted angles and center-framing you're cooking up while looking for someone to take those cameras off you so you can get your next heroin fix.

Keep the freakin' cameras if you want. They were cheap. They'll come and go and to be honest they were kind of on their last legs. I just want the freakin' film. You can even keep the leather case, I'm not sure if it's real leather anyway. You're probably not up for this but I might as well ask, there might be some sort of Robin Hood-like pity in your burglar heart.

Of course, I'm perfectly aware that you might have just been a Good Samaritan and returned it to a police station or you're looking for clues around the the case to determine who it might belong to. If this is the case, then you can disregard all that mean STUFF and I hope you email me about getting it back. I'll even throw you a couple of bucks and buy you lunch. But I'm also perfectly aware that if this was the case it would be raining gumdrops from marshmallow clouds and we'd all be singing showtunes. So, more likely than not, you stole it, and now you're trying to sell it on craigslist.

So FORGET you.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/1612563385.html

hope you all enjoyed that

EDIT:

This didn't happen to me. I read it on "Best of Craigslist". I though the author was a great wordsmith. I found it amusing so I decided to share it with the forum.