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An amazing coincidental meeting - Fishboy - 11-18-2009
We've discussed crime in the forum, and I thought you all would enjoy this email that I received this morning from one of my co-workers here in Washington. His home was broken into about three weeks ago and they lost a lot of charished treasures. Among the stolen items was his expensive camera and lenses. What follows is exactly as he wrote it:
From: MacDonald, Michael K.
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:44 AM
To: Bigler, Brian
Subject: camera
Last night after getting off the bus near home, making a side trip to sign the boys up for little league baseball, and waiting for my teriyaki order, I ran across the street to Kenmore Camera and asked them if anyone tried to sell them my camera and lens. The camera setup is unique which caught the ear of the owner and he asked what the serial # was and suggested that I get it immediately and shifted his eyes toward a customer at the other end of the counter. Of the stuff stolen three weeks ago, that was the only item that I had the serial # for, so I called Kathi to read it off to me. The number matched the camera the kid (21 yo) was trying to sell. The police arrested him without incident but he denied knowing it was stolen. Police later told me the kid said he got the camera from his sister who got it from someone that "is familiar" to the police. I don't believe the kid could be so innocent to know it wasn't stolen.
The owner said in the 30 years he's owned the place never has this situation happened where both people are in the store at the same time. Shoulda bought a lottery ticket.
I learned that in WA if a person states they didn't know it was stolen the police cannot get a search warrant to see if they have more stolen property.
Write down all your serial numbers and put them in safe place.
Michael MacDonald
National Marine Fisheries Service Liaison
Aloha pumehana,
Brian and Mary
Lynnwood, WA\Discovery Harbour
RE: An amazing coincidental meeting - dmbwest - 11-18-2009
Great story ! No way the guy didn't know.
aloha,
pog
RE: An amazing coincidental meeting - mella l - 11-19-2009
With out your presence I assume that the sale or purchase would have happened, and your camera would not be in your possession at this moment. In that case would the store owner have called the police to verify the serial number before passing it along to an unsuspecting patron?
Good for you what a lucky day!
mella l