Burglar Returns Stolen Camera After Realizing It’s True Value
I found this to be a touching article from FOXNews, one that shows how important photography can be.
It tells the story of a woman that had her camera stolen and the burglar that returned it after learning that she was terminally ill. She was collecting photographs on this camera to create a scrapbook for her children. The burglar must have realized that he stole more than just a material thing but had taken valuable memories that to her and her children were priceless.
McElrath, who has inoperable cancer, was collecting photos to place in a scrapbook for her children so they could remember her after she was gone. The camera had belonged to her father, who died of a heart attack two years ago.
The woman told her heart-wrenching story to Dallas-area news station WFAA TV, appealing to the burglar to return the camera. [...]
“I just want my camera back,” she told WFAA reporter Jim Douglas. “I just want those memories back.”
Then something remarkable happened. A few days after the story aired, Douglas got a call from a man who told him to look behind a red car in the station’s parking lot. The caller didn’t leave his name; he said only that he felt bad about the incident and wanted to return the camera.
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December 31st, 2008 at 9:36 pm
not sure how to feel about that. he didn,t do a good thing in the first place, but I guess there is a certain level towhich this person coul not sink. he probably justified
the theft to himself up to that point
January 1st, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Good point Steve. I’m in total agreement with you.