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'All the world's a stage'- and all of my shows are comedies. Welcome to my Wacky World, which is a collection of the mad, funny and sometimes slightly unbelievable things that happen to me.

Thursday 15 November 2012

QUEST! The Mystery of the Lost SD Card

Has anyone seen any of these guys before?

My friend Gurpreet visited from Birmingham last weekend and found an SD on the tube with 421 of someone else's holiday images on it, and now he's trying to find the owner to return the card to them- aside from sharing and passing on this photo on Facebook (hoping the whole seven degrees of separation thing works somewhere down the road), here's m contribution to his quest.

A little background on Gurp- crazy things happen to me weekly. Positively insane things happen to Gurp almost every day. One of my personal favourite stories of his is the time he accidentally ingested antifreeze, managed to stagger to a wedding without dying, and accidentally found out at the wedding that whisky is a legitimate cure for antifreeze poisoning (no joke- but don't try it at home, kids). Just before he visited we were joking that with the two of us in the same place in the same time, something mind-blowing was bound to happen. In fact within the first five minutes of us and a few other friends meeting up a cash management van drove straight into a set of traffic lights right next to us.

Anyway, let's continue with the real story. It was after lunch, and five of us, mostly of battle reenactment stock, were strolling down Carnaby Street.

"Tash, did I tell you about the SD card?" Asked Gurp.

He, Drefan (otherwise known as Adam, and another friend I met through battle reenactment society- another story) and Drefan's girlfriend Julia were on the tube from Tooting Broadway to Leicester Square, on the northern line, when they found the SD card. We were all pretty excited, trying to guess what was stored on the little memory card- we decided that the most likely ones were definitely either holiday snaps, or a secret government mission that we'd have to take up on the demise of the previous owner/ secret agent and then the card would self-destruct as soon as we'd received further instructions.

Gods, we really hoped it was the latter.

When Gurp returned home he popped the card into his camera (reasoning that it was less likely to corrupt and destroy his camera than his computer if there was any bad software on the card), and found over four hundred photos. Gurp being Gurp, and never one to back down on a quest, began his detective work (which has already proven successful in the past when it comes to random lost items).

After looking through the photos for clues, landmarks and signs, he managed to deduce the following things:

-The photos were of a group of people backpacking in Venezuela

-The group of people seemed to range from 18-25 years old

- At least one of them belongs to C.U.L.N.C, the Cambridge University Ladies' Netball Club

- The SD card was (as mentioned) dropped on that Northern Line train

So. If anyone reading this happens to know anything, please tell these people to get in touch so we can return their awesome-looking memories. If you're the owner(s) of these pictures, so sorry we looked through them and I hope you don't mind me posting these two photos- I hope we can get the pics back to you!



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