Six Degrees--or more like 3 degrees--of Buckeye Fan Separation also shows the power of email. John Kelly took his 10-year old son Noah to the Ohio State Football game, only to find out that their tickets had been given to the Alumni band.
He did score a cute pic with his son and Brutus Buckeye, but then lost his digital camera along the way. Another fan picked it up, but had a more creative way to try and find its owner than just turning it in to lost-and-found. Michelle Montgomery circulated the picture amongst her fellow Buckeye fans, asking them to pass it on to their friends. Three people later, John had his camera back--and now his story is circulating widely on the internet.
Have you ever lost and then found your gadgets? How did you find them, or did they find you?
Thank you for posting my story, this is Michelle Montgomery who found the camera at the OSu / Youngstown State Game. I just wanted to clarify that only recently were we able to trace back how the camera was returned to its owner and rather than 3 degrees of separation - it was 10! It traveled through 10 people in 48 hours to reach its owner! Amazing!
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This is how tech challenged I am - how did you download someone else's digital camera into your computer to pass the photos along? Or maybe you don't have to do that. Don't you have to install the camera CD to d'ld? I can't get photos from my camera unless I use my own computer where I've installed the program. Is this a stupid question?
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Anne, many cameras have a preview LCD that allows you to look back at the photos you've taken without downloading them to your computer. Hope that answers your question.
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Sorry I must be tired, because I think I misread the post, but circulating the photo could have been done by taking out the memory card and maybe putting it on someone's phone and then sending it that way?
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