In New Zealand we like to talk up the interconnectedness of the little village that we all live in.
Because of our small population, it’s often claimed that everybody is connected to everybody else by fewer than six degrees of separation.
There is even a new mobile phone network claiming just two degrees.
So, let’s try an experiment and see if we can return some lost property in the process.
Yesterday we were driving home from Taupo and saw a camera fall off the roof of one of the cars we were following. Unfortunately we didn’t see which one, and anyway, by the time we stopped and picked it up they were long gone.
Here is one of the pics from the camera:
If you or somebody you know are in the photo please get in touch so I can arrange to return the camera to you.
If not, please re-blog, re-tweet, or otherwise forward this onto anybody who may have been driving South along the Desert Road yesterday.
If you include a link to this post then I’ll be able to work out how long the chain is, if the owner is found.
Thanks in advance for your help!
UPDATE (14th Dec, 1pm):
I’ve got an email from one of the people in the photo, so I’m pleased to say that the camera and (more importantly) photos will be back with them soon.
I’m astounded at how many people have linked to this post this morning, from Twitter and various other sites. Thanks to you it took less than 3 hours to find them.
It looks like there were a number of different ways that I am connected to the owner - but the first to produce a result was via Tarik, who subscribes to my blog and is a friend of the owner, so just two degrees of separation.
Thanks again to everybody who made the effort to help!
UPDATE (14th Dec, 2pm):
A couple of people have pointed out an NZPA story about this, currently on the Stuff home page:
Blog helps reunite owner with camera
Too funny!
And, so nice of them to provide a link back to this post…oh wait, they didn’t.
UPDATE (15th Dec, 3pm):
The camera has been returned in exchange for a bottle of 42 Below. A good result!