Bohemian_Taco
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« on: July 19, 2009, 04:28:52 AM » |
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Been lurking on these boards around two years and I regret that my first post is on this topic but it's gotta be said: My family was out on the dunes this past week and Wednesday night, the Ziploc bag containing my new-ish digital camera AND phone fell out of my bag and our buggy at some unknown point during an evening ride. This happened Wednesday between 4 and 6 p.m. and I have been searching for it frantically since then but we had to come back home today so I figured I'd come post here, just in case anyone here may have seen it or may still see it out there. By this point, it's probably desperate to hope that no one has stolen it or that my little baggie has held up for almost 4 days, but I still garner some hope. I really can't afford to lose either of these things right now. It was a stupid mistake too. I've been coming here for all of my 22 years and never lost anything more serious than a beach towel... Our buggy has side panels but apparently that's not enough to stop my valuables from escaping. So please, indulge a stupid girl and keep an eye out for an EnV2 with a polka dot case and a black thin digital camera while you're driving around this week. The phone is of no use to anyone, as I've canceled service on it, and I wouldn't mind getting my pictures back... The last place I remembered seeing it was on Test Hill. I checked back there, but it could still be buried under a foot of sand. Who knows... >_< My e-mail is insane_troll_logic_86@yahoo.com if anyone knows anything. Thanks for listening! Kara |
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400ExMadMan
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« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2009, 11:59:00 AM » |
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i lost my cell phone one year never found it tried calling it and remembered it was on vibrate  lol sorry to here about your week and welcome to the forum |
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superduty
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« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2009, 01:38:13 PM » |
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very sorry to hear
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michiganmadman
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« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2009, 06:26:45 PM » |
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Sorry to hear  May be hitting the dune in the next few days We will keep an eye out! |
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Bohemian_Taco
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« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2009, 02:19:02 AM » |
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Update: The phone has apparently been found, though I had a hard time believing it. After five days buried in the sand, it actually had a shred of battery left (enough to find my mom's cell number anyhow) for the finders to retrieve the number and give us a call tonight. Sadly, it was sans camera, and out of the bag entirely, leaving me not only to wonder if the phone will still work, as it must be rife with sand, but also to accept that someone must have found the bag, kept the phone, and dumped my phone instead of nicely returning it to the DNR as they very well could have...
I guess I'll take this as a win, since it's phenomenal that it was found still working after five days, by someone who lives within half an hour of me on the east side of the state over here, no less. But I still wish I had that camera!
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« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2009, 07:26:32 AM » |
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Too bad everyone is not as honest as you are. Even if you didn't get the camera back, getting the card out of it would have at least given you your pictures. I once found a camera and cell phone sitting in the change tray of a slot machine in Vegas. I turned it in to a rather bored looking security guard. I don't know if they ever got it back, but I tried. On that same trip, I accidentally left a new watch I had just gotten sitting next to a slot machine. Yup, you guessed it, I never got it back. I had turned around to see somebody who had just won a large amount and forgot about it. I wondered about 25 feet and remembered I had left it and went back to find it gone. I asked the security guard if it had been turned it but it hadn't. So much for honesty. My husband lost his wallet at the beach there a few years ago but never got it back. It would have been so easy to turn it in to the DNR even if they kept the money. We looked all up and down the beach, all we found was about $20 in beer cans in the trash barrels.  |
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« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2009, 11:42:48 PM » |
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Yeah I never realized how much trash was actually strewn about the dunes until this week. If I'd had the capability I would've picked up more but as it was I picked up a lot of trash on my search. People are so disrespectful |
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« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2009, 11:04:56 PM » |
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 Sorry to say we also saw a lot of bags, "empty" bags, plastic bottles, empty cigarette boxes ect. I know for a fact there are people who want the dunes closed to ORV’s  Let’s not give them anything like “There trashing the dunes” 
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« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2009, 04:39:25 PM » |
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I was just up in the dunes Sunday and say some things in the sand but not your stuff, sorry, hope you get it back |
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« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2009, 05:01:13 PM » |
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There are good people still around, Memorial weekend just before I broke my suburban I lost my phone out a hole in the floor. While we (Ridge Road Gang) were trying to get the truck back to the cottage someone already found my phone and called a # on and brought it to my wife. The guy said he barley saw it under the sand, someone had ran it over. It was crazy he found it. He said someone close to him lost a wallet once and it got returned so he always tries to return the favor.
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