A man named Philip suspected his $2000 Sony HC1 video camera was stolen by his “friend”, a girl named Amanda. 5 days later, he saw his video camera on an online trading website and the user who is selling the gadget shares the same user name as Amanda’s MySpace profile. He made a video asking for everyone’s help to get his camera back, by revealing Amanda’s contact information including her phone number. The video was uploaded on YouTube and successfully reached Digg’s front page, which means Amanda’s contact information will be seen by many of Digg users – not to count those who posted the video on their blog.
In the video, Philip mentioned that he reported to the police, but they did not bother to take any action. So in the video, he ask people to contact Amanda and request her to return his video camera. Now that the video has been viewed by around 8 thousand peoples, how many will call Amanda up? Some even have Amanda’s address. Who knows what’s the real case and who knows if Philip just hated Amanda and wants to get her into trouble? He did mention to call/text/IM in a polite way, but I doubt everyone who contact her will do it in that way. I buried the video on Digg just in case the story was made up by Philip. Getting famous on the internet for something she have no idea at all isn’t a good thing. Even if she really stole Philip’s video camera, Philip should settle it in a more proper way.
On YouTube, a user’s comment made me laugh:-
hope someone gets this guy’s camcorder back so he won’t have to post videos using MS Paint.
Philip drew some stick man to describe the situation better, using Microsoft Paint if not mistaken.
Why don’t he do it his self? Why don’t he mad on this recordding?
Doubt it was realy.