To Do a Good Turn Daily
Posted in Current Events by John E. Pannell on January 27th, 2008 at 11:06 am Sometimes one finds a story about someone who follows the good ideals of Scouting, and they’re not even Scouts. For example, take the story of Erika Gunderson and Brian Ascher recently reported on Yahoo! News:
At dusk on New Year’s Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery. Sitting on the back seat was a nice Canon digital camera. Gunderson asked the driver which previous passenger might have left it, but the cabbie didn’t seem to care. So Gunderson brought it home and showed it to her fiance, Brian Ascher. They decided that the only right thing to do was to find the owner.
Finding the owner turned out to be much harder than they initially bargained for. The only clues they had were the photos and video on the camera itself.
The couple persevered and were finally able to reunite the camera with its owner:
Murphy, an insurance underwriter, had been devastated to lose the pictures from a trip he had planned for years. It was Jan. 10 — his 34th birthday — when he heard he would be getting the photos back. “I was over the moon,” he says now. “Best present ever.”
“I owe you one,” he wrote to Ascher. “It’s good to know there are some honest people left in the world.”
There is much more to this story. It took a fair amount of detective work, and the help of several other people to figure out who the onwer was. Less honest people would have given up and just kept the camera. You can read the rest of the story online.
It’s nice to see good news reported once in a while!
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