Blog helps reunite owner with camera

Last updated 12:30 14/12/2009

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A Kiwi man's blog has helped swiftly track down the owner of a camera found bouncing along the Desert Road.

Rowan Simpson was driving along central North Island road yesterday when the camera fell off the roof of a car in front of him.

"Unfortunately we didn't see which one, and anyway, by the time we stopped and picked it up they were long gone," Mr Simpson posted on his blog.

He published a photo off the camera, a group shot, on a website under the title "Do you know these people?"

Within 26 minutes of the first message being, he had a hit.

"Hi Rowan. Small world. The guy on the far right is John Wesley-Smith", a reader called Tarik messaged.

Mr Wesley-Smith, a manager at Telecom, was stunned when NZPA rang him to tell him his camera had been found.

"I didn't know where and how I lost it. I wasn't expecting to get it back," he said.

He said he had been driving home from holiday when the camera disappeared.

It was "great" his snaps had been saved, he said.

He said he would contact Mr Simpson to arrange to get his camera back.

Mr Simpson said on his blog he had wanted to test the claim that everyone in New Zealand was connected to everyone else by fewer than six degrees of separation.

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housemonkey #15 01:52 pm Dec 15 2009

@Wayno "he had wanted to test the claim that everyone in New Zealand was connected to everyone else by FEWER than six degrees of separation."

Keep up.

Wayno #14 10:30 am Dec 15 2009

The Six Degrees of Separation theory is a WORLDWIDE thing, not just New Zealand. It is supposedly a maximum of 6 degrees of separation between you and ANYONE else on Earth.

Neil L #13 10:22 pm Dec 14 2009

How sad, when I first read the story I thought "cool what a excellent example of human spirit and our ability to be kind eevn when there exist no obvious personal benefit, and act of kindness simply because he could".

Then I made the mistake of reading the comments.

Ken #12 09:26 pm Dec 14 2009

to Guy #5, when are you leaving? If you read the news around the world there are plenty of places where 'it ain't all sunshine and roses'. I take it from Dayu's comment that he has already immigrated to NZ and is happy to live here. If so welcome to NZ, it's great to have you here. Well done to Rowan for his honesty and common sense, something sorely lacking in parts of worldwide society today.

housemonkey #11 04:25 pm Dec 14 2009

@ Johnny Utah: Yes, I get all my advice from Miley Cyrus too.

Kiwi #10 04:11 pm Dec 14 2009

Who the hell is NZPA? It is not acceptable to use acronyms in a news story unless you've previously referenced the full name to which the acronym refers. The journalism on this site gets worse every day.

Phil Dyer #9 04:07 pm Dec 14 2009

Yes but Guy, this event (the camera being returned) would never happen in most other places in the world that also have all the crap going on.

Kryptos #8 03:54 pm Dec 14 2009

Either they have updated the article after you guys started mentioning twitter or your all crazy or just bad at reading, cos theres no mention of twitter in the article at the momnet

johnny utah #7 02:20 pm Dec 14 2009

twitter shmitter. what is stuff's obsession with bringing twitter into every story? twitter ain't cool. even miley cyrus is over it.

Label #6 02:18 pm Dec 14 2009

Yep, Rowan's blog, which was then fired to Twitter and retweeted many times. Honestly, why the nitpicking? Rowan (who is an onto it guy) had a good idea - who cares which of the mechanisms he used actually got the hit? Twitter was just used as an extension of his blog.

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