RBDesign wrote:
About a week ago I met up with a friend at a local hangout for dinner and to get her opinion on a couple of promo books that I had printed. The books cost me a grand total of $20 a piece x 3 books = $60. Well to make a long story short, I left my brief case at the place. In it were the books, my check book, my passport, about $150 in cash, and some other crap that actually was worth a bit. Hell the brief case was a $500 item.
I stopped by to pick it up and everything was there. Cool, except the promo books. Not a big deal but what a pain in the butt. I have to wonder why people steal things like that and leave valuables behind. I really don't get it. If you're going to steal things why stop at promo books, why not the cash or other valuables. If you're honest enought to leave the valuables why take anything at all.
It makes no sense to me at all.

WTF?

You shoot nudes.

Could have been some 14 year old boy who had no way of seeing nudie-shots and wanted to get his hands on some nake - ...

Oh, wait. Kids these days have the Internet. What am I thinking?

Iona Lynn wrote:
Emotional reasons....I stole a finial once from a restruant I still have it it was from a date.... I am going to have it cast & shrunk and give it back to said date at some point as a necklace pendant.

I am bad I stole a chandeler finial...

Yea but that seems way different that this. Hey I did steal a "Yellow Tail" branded corkscrew from a bar that did not even sell "Yellow Tail" wines but that was more of a liberation of the hostage corkscrew thing.

RB

Webspinner wrote:
I accidentally packed a cheap red silk (or acrylic, who knows) rose prop into my suitcase the last time I modeled at someone elses studio. I want to return it lest I ruin my reputation.

Actually I have spent more money on FedEx returning personal items to models that leave with out them than I care to remember.

RB

Vegas Alien wrote:
CDs and CompactFlash cards have walked away from my studio.

*Translates into No Escort Policy.

I guess I've been lucky, the only thing "escorts" have taken from me are beers, free broadband time, and some wardrobe that was going in the trash anyway.

RB

Iona Lynn wrote:
Emotional reasons....I stole a finial once from a restruant I still have it it was from a date.... I am going to have it cast & shrunk and give it back to said date at some point as a necklace pendant.

I am bad I stole a chandeler finial...

the average finial, ie the ones for lampshades, have the same thread gauge as the thread of a tripod, quarter-20, one can unscrew a finial and put a camera on a lamp

not a big camera of course..

lotusphoto wrote:

the average finial, ie the ones for lampshades, have the same thread gauge as the thread of a tripod, quarter-20, one can unscrew a finial and put a camera on a lamp

not a big camera of course..

lotus, what exactly is your point? Have you actually screwed your camera onto a lamp. If so how did it turn out? Did you steal the finial or just misplace it?

RB

Webspinner wrote:
I accidentally packed a cheap red silk (or acrylic, who knows) rose prop into my suitcase the last time I modeled at someone elses studio. I want to return it lest I ruin my reputation.

Usually people ask if it is ok to take something that they shot with. I have let models take whatever they want. Hell what would I do with it anyway? I'm sure it wasn't a big deal.

RB

RBDesign wrote:
About a week ago I met up with a friend at a local hangout for dinner and to get her opinion on a couple of promo books that I had printed. The books cost me a grand total of $20 a piece x 3 books = $60. Well to make a long story short, I left my brief case at the place. In it were the books, my check book, my passport, about $150 in cash, and some other crap that actually was worth a bit. Hell the brief case was a $500 item.
I stopped by to pick it up and everything was there. Cool, except the promo books. Not a big deal but what a pain in the butt. I have to wonder why people steal things like that and leave valuables behind. I really don't get it. If you're going to steal things why stop at promo books, why not the cash or other valuables. If you're honest enought to leave the valuables why take anything at all.
It makes no sense to me at all.

WTF?

RB

Bro, you should be honored. I left some prints at a cafe once and came back to find them covered with post it notes saying "Out of focus!!" "Watch your backgrounds!" "Shitty contrast" and so on.

I was ruined for a week!

But, yeah, no accounting for the reasoning of a theif. They are, after all, thieves.