That sounds like someone had far too many drinks one night. Unless
deranged, I can't think of a reason for any sane person to act that way.
(Unless it was a sane, but unbelivable furious wife.)
Skip
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From: "M. Royer" <royer007@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] semi (ot) why the hell do people engrave things on
cameras/lenses
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 23:08:20 -0700 (PDT)
I guess I'd better explain my rant. I walked into a
pawn shop and saw a Nikon F3 and a 300/4 ASPH or
whatever they call it (its the very expensive normal
telephoto around 800-1000 new I think) well these
items were marked at like 50 bucks for each. Sounds
like a mega Fang, right? WRONG, the previous owner,
apparently trying to make sure everyone in the world
knew this stuff was his; took a jackhammer or
something big and heavy and DENTED his name onto these
items, he apparently smashed these items so badly in
his attempt to emblazon his name on them that the
mirror on the camera was cracked and the shutter
wouldn't fire, the plate looked like it was caved in a
bit. The lens... that poor lens brought a tear to my
eye. The front elements had cracked due to the massive
blows whatever the guy had used to put his name on the
item and the front part of the lens was bent (there
are ding, then there are dents, this was BENT). The
letter were massive and I could clearly see that this
was the former property of RICHARD JOHNSON, no I'm not
kidding someone who lives around Rochester is actually
named RICHARD JOHNSON and likes to mutilate camera
equipment. I mean why bother maning him RICHARD
JOHNSON, just call hin Dick Dick. OK I'll stop now
with the bad innuendos. But still this guy deserves a
Darwin Award for stupidity.
Mark Lloyd
--- Charles Sdunek <charles@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I dont think anyone would want to steal anything so
> ugly.... on the other
> hand, if I found a really expensive lens I might
> just buy it and see what
> kind of wonders I could accomplish with a little
> spot putty and a paint.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> Visit us on the web:
> http://www.angelfire.com/mi/fenriz
>
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