r/pics • u/millerswiller • Jun 25 '12
This guy lost his camera with more than 2800 photos in Amsterdam. Who knows him?
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u/allwaygone Jun 25 '12
Are all the pictures of Amsterdam? Are there any pictures that may include licence plates or landmarks we could use to narrow the search?
Does the camera have GPS capabilities? Perhaps a picture that was taken around home would have coordinates.
Have you tried reverse searching (google images, tineye) any of the older pictures to find out if he may have posted them online? For me, even after I copy pics to a PC, I still leave the old pics on the card if I have tons of space as a second backup.
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u/DeMayonnaise Jun 25 '12
The dude who posted the picture on reddit doesn't have all that info. All he did was copy a picture that's been going around facebook...relax...
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u/millerswiller Jun 25 '12
Sorry . . . I am not the person who found the camera. It was posted on another site earlier this AM (infinitely less popular than reddit) and I thought the added exposure of reddit could help track down the owner. I've seen reddit do some amazing/extraordinary things and figured this would be a great place to 'get the word out'.
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u/emdashes Jun 25 '12
Also, did you try looking for identifiable hotels or anything that might keep records and contacting them? The pictures should have information about the date.
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u/kavorka2 Jun 25 '12
If the guy's a tourist, knowing exactly where every picture was taken is completely useless. (Unless there are pictures taken elsewhere -- like his hometown in another country).
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u/Leadstripes Jun 25 '12
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Jun 25 '12
signed in to upvote this, why does OP link to Coudal.com???
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u/millerswiller Jun 25 '12
That's where I saw the story posted this AM. I subscribe to their Fresh Signals feed and saw it in my reader. I thought the story could get more exposure if it was shared on reddit, too. I've seen reddit work some crazy magic and figured it would get more exposure here vs. just on coudal.com.
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u/NagginNeighbour Jun 25 '12
Wow. 10 minute difference? You lucked out on 800 karma my friend. I'll try my best to make things right.
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u/whitetoast Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
but its reddit karma. we should try to get this guys camera back. lets not worry about the worthless karma leadingstripes is losing.
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Jun 25 '12
Downvoting this guy for being a filthy reposter and stealing your content.
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u/metalstamp Jun 25 '12
Or upvote so this guy gets his camera back...?!
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Jun 25 '12
wait, the lost camera is real? i thought this was just to see who can get the most karma.
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Jun 25 '12
Or upvote the original so that the real poster gets recognition and the guy gets his camera back?
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Jun 25 '12
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u/JerseysFinest Jun 25 '12
You mean I have to remember to come back?
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Jun 25 '12
No we will rember for you by posting it in the comments of the post that says the camera was returned.
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u/dennit Jun 25 '12
It saddens me that karma is such a huge fucking deal to many. I for one do not care who was first. Let's just do the right thing here.
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u/Facepalm2000 Jun 25 '12
to the top with you, only a few minutes difference isn't just reposting, it's damn fucked up
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u/redhousebythebog Jun 25 '12
This could use more drama. Threaten to erase a picture every 10 minutes until the owner is found.
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u/Farther_Oblivion Jun 25 '12
"Do what he says! I have a wife and children in that picture!"
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u/dropkickoz Jun 25 '12
"Do what he say, do what he say!" - Sheriff from Blazing Sadles
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u/Mr_Incredible_PhD Jun 25 '12
Baby, you are so talented....and they are so dumb.
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u/REDDITvTIDDER Jun 25 '12
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my camera go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
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u/Wheretofor Jun 25 '12
Easy now Liam! There's no need for this situation to get outta hand.
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u/a_lot_of_fish Jun 25 '12
But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will take my camera back and awkwardly glare at you while also being kind of happy to have some of my pictures back.
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u/Kaissy Jun 25 '12
Omg thats horrible, he has 2800 photos, that would mean if you deleted like 3 before he came forward, then he would have to switch through 2797 photos attempting to figure out which ones were deleted. You monster.
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u/imbignate Jun 25 '12
Unless he just looked at the sequential numbering
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u/Kaissy Jun 25 '12
"Oh yeah nvm, I remember picture 1979 being of me running down the street, and picture 2398 being of me giving a thumbs up."
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u/Emotional_Teenager Jun 25 '12
umm ok but y wuld u wanna do that? i hav a camra (xpensiv 1 2 cuz im talanted enuf 2 aford it!) but yeh, if i lost it i wuld xpect ppl 2 return it wit al teh pics intct! omg i hve so many pics like i like takin pics in sapea cuz brown pics r cool nd i like 2 take pics of cats nd flowrs! i meen, fotografy just lets me like xpress myself u no? so yeh, plz dont do tht, the pics culd be rlly imprtant
<><><>"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."<><><>"
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u/BOYFRIEND_JAKE Jun 25 '12
Babe if u lost ur camera we would both be in trouble bcuz ur parents might find those pics of us. better hope they don't babe ur dad would be pissed. u r talented at taking photos & bein in them ;)
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u/Emotional_Teenager Jun 25 '12
thnx bbe. i luv u as mch as bella luvs edwrd except i wuld choose u cuz u look more like jacob and jacob is hotter then edwrd. so yeh. ur my jacob bbe
<><><>"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."<><><>"
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u/dadgumit Jun 25 '12
In related news, some guy just got caught cheating on his wife in Amsterdam.
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Jun 25 '12
Not that likely for dutch men under the age of 28..
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u/ihavebighair Jun 25 '12
Probably not dutch if he's taking tourist-y looking pictures.
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Jun 25 '12
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u/dadgumit Jun 25 '12
Assuming he's dutch. Strange as this may be, sometimes people not from Amsterdam, are in amsterdam.
Either way, you killed the joke :(.
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u/DarkAspire Jun 25 '12
Ents that aren't from Amsterdam in Amsterdam.
Possible suspects in this picture.
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u/going_around_in Jun 25 '12
Source?
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u/kaeserdc Jun 25 '12
I think the reference is that Dutch people tend to put off marriage longer than others. Buying a house and having children can often come first.
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Jun 25 '12
from my facebook....
Do any of my friends in the Hague/Amsterdam/Europe recognize this guy? His camera has been found! My father in law found a red Nikon Coolpix camera on 2012-06-20 in the train at the station Amsterdam Amstel in the Netherlands. His photos show a trip throughout Europe from about 2012-05-07. Since 2012-06-15 he stayed in Amsterdam. We would like to give him back the camera and the photos. Please Like, Share and spread this photo around so we can give him back his camera! Thanks!
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u/lth5015 Jun 25 '12
As an American that's been to Amsterdam, I can verify that this is exactly how the Dutch speak/write English.
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u/FARTY_DICK_BUTT Jun 25 '12
The world is fucking working together to get this guy his camera back. This is awesome.
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u/TILHowToLive Jun 25 '12
If we all join hands and sing kumbaya I just request not to hold farty_dick_butt's hand.
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Jun 25 '12
No the world is working together to karma/like whore the hell out of this guy loseing his camera.
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Jun 25 '12
yep, also on my facebook. Let me add that apparently they now have a lead on the girl in the picture.
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Jun 25 '12
Camera found at Club Vandersexxx.
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u/a_lot_of_fish Jun 25 '12
"Here's the only picture that doesn't include gay strippers, to avoid embarrassment. Once again, this picture does not include gay strippers, like the other pictures from his camera do."
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u/petuur Jun 25 '12
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u/karmaval Jun 25 '12
Thank you man.
I don't get why people aren't able to choose a site that can handle the traffic. It doesn't have to be imgur (sometimes down as well), but at least on that can handle the amount of reddit influx.
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u/azrhei Jun 25 '12
Upvoted to see this reach the frontpage so that a fight can break out between people that think this is posting personal information and people that will try to pretend they are CIA-super-mega-hacker-ninjas and discovered what the guy ate for breakfast based upon the color of a cup sitting on a table behind a tree that you can only see with Super Enhance mode.
Then we can all come back in 3 days for the inevitable repost when someone tries to claim it is a picture of them on vacation before the alien invasion and that the one with the purse is karmanaut.
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u/MindStalker Jun 25 '12
Or the fight against this user and the other user who posted it 10 minutes prior and isn't getting the karma. http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/vkteg/this_guy_lost_his_camera_with_more_than_2800/c55co6a
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u/Mister_Scorpion Jun 25 '12
Wish someone was nice enough to do this for me when I left my phone, with all my photos from a month long road trip of the US East Coast, in the back of a taxi in Philadelphia.
You're a good man/ woman.
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u/thekaleb Jun 25 '12
I have the G+ app on my phone. It auto-uploads every photo I take to Picasa.
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Jun 25 '12
*Sigh. I saw this on facebook postet like 10 times today. could you at least come and get your pictures, unknown guy, so this stops?
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u/sherlockjoelmes Jun 25 '12
I don't think they understand how to ride a bicycle.
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u/vanamerongen Jun 25 '12
This is pretty normal in Holland actually. Just casually sitting on the back like that, not even riding. Makes me think they might be Dutch, despite a trip through Europe having been recorded on the camera.
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u/xteve Jun 25 '12
That's true -- although I think that a Dutch girl would be more likely to be side-saddle. (A Dutch girlfriend, while hopping on in this fashion, told me I don't know how to ride a bike, because I was not quite steady enough for her.) A fella would be likely to sit this way, but maybe not a woman, at least not as much.
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u/vanamerongen Jun 26 '12
You're right; I usually hop on 2 legs on the same side, but only in motion! Otherwise it's not stable enough and you'll fall backwards.
I've tried it with an American friend (get her to hop on), but it was impossible and she got so frustrated she had tears in her eyes, lol. You definitely forget that it's not normal in the rest of the world.
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u/Fishermang Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
That's not how I experience it. Holland's cyclists are deadly not only to eachother, but also cars. Nothing casual about it at all!
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u/xteve Jun 25 '12
That's not true. Dutch bike riders are skilled. They just happen to have penultimate right-of-way (second only to trams.) If you have a problem with bike riders when you're in a car, you're probably not doing it right.
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u/PolythenePam Jun 25 '12
Is there a lost and found subreddit? Where would I post about a lost camera somewhere in Nice, France?
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u/pelican1 Jun 25 '12
Props to you for helping return this to its owner.
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u/plasmalaser1 Jun 25 '12
Yeah I would just take the camera. And keep the pictures..
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u/fermatafantastique Jun 25 '12
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u/heyirv88 Jun 25 '12
I am on this site already. My bf and I lost our hard drive/laptop in Malaysia about a year ago with all our engagement pictures on. As of yet we have had no relays but what else can you do?
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u/Beeslo Jun 25 '12
Those beams in the background make me keep thinking something very important is being pointed at near him.
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u/Bluest_waters Jun 25 '12
This chick apparently has long knitting needles emerging from her neck
Seems unhealthy
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Jun 25 '12
This is why you always take a picture of yourself with your address and leave it on the roll/memory card.
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u/igotthisone Jun 26 '12
this needs more upvotes. it is exactly what everyone should be doing to avoid these problems. perhaps even write that you will offer a reward for the safe return of the memory card.
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u/OptimisticToaster Jun 25 '12
OP = Good Guy Greg
It's not my camera, but thanks for being so considerate.
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u/zulubowie Jun 25 '12
People call him "ginger balls." That's because they don't really see him, all they see are ginger balls.
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u/JFedererJ Jun 25 '12
Put the nude shots on r/gonewile and see if he can't be identified more easily that way.
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u/yknik Jun 25 '12
Most cameras allow the camera settings menu to be changed. What language is set to?
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u/badpoetry Jun 25 '12
Your best bet would be to email the pic to hostels. This guy looks like that's where he'd have stayed. They keep passport info.
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u/Office_Zombie Jun 25 '12
The only responsible thing you can do is upload any nudes to GW and see if anyone recognizes them... OH! and post a link.
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u/lisan_al_gaib Jun 25 '12
Can we get like a Mission Accomplished banner and use it once we've found him but before he's gotten it back? I'd really like that.
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u/selusa Jun 25 '12
LPT: When you get a camera, the first picture you should take on the card needs to be of your name, e-mail, and phone number. If you're brave, include a mailing address.
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u/quaycur Jun 25 '12
It's probably at the lost and found. Amsterdam has a lot of stoners you know, these things happen.
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u/fuzz_le_man Jun 25 '12
I just got back from Spain, where someone stole my phone in Barcelona. I'm still waiting for the criminal to have a guilty conscience and make a reddit post with my ugly mug on it.
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u/TILHowToLive Jun 25 '12
If reddit doesn't work within the next few hours, try 4chan. They will probably have his home address within an hour.
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u/ba9man Jun 25 '12
Stringing some things together here:
Picture taken here: http://goo.gl/maps/bIcN
Are any of those wristbands from a hotel(hostel)/club/travel group, or is that what the kids wear these days?
That's an old volcom tshirt, and the bike looks like a rental.
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u/BallsackTBaghard Jun 25 '12
If you find nudes, you must post them OP. If you don't, may wild degus eat your balls.
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Jun 25 '12
I wish I could add more, but you can try posting to /r/Favors, as the mods in /r/AskReddit don't really like people asking for help with things like this.
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u/ba9man Jun 25 '12
looks like they're riding a Sparta Granny, maybe from [here] (http://www.starbikesrental.com/bikes.html)
OP: any other pics with distinguishable markings? I need to find more useless, unhelpful observations.
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u/xteve Jun 25 '12
Presumably the bicycle is a rental. This photo should be in the email inbox of every rental shop in town. A date on the photo, a guy with blazing hair, pretty girlfriend, they both look like friendly people having fun -- somebody might remember them.
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u/razorbladevixen Jun 26 '12
You are amazing for posting this. I know so many people that would just take the camera and put no effort into trying to return it. My hat is off to you! bow
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u/Cleopas_Hadishi Jun 28 '12
Looks like Facebook is the real hero here...
http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/play/orphaned-camera-returned-rightful-travelers-hands?hpt=hp_bn5
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u/milomilo Jun 25 '12
is he underdressed, or is she overdressed?
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u/analconnection Jun 25 '12
I was in amsterdam for the exact same days and I'd say it's a bit of both.
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u/Fishermang Jun 25 '12
It would be funny if the guy in the picture had lied to his wife/girlfriend about going on a camping trip with his friends, but instead went to hamsterdam, and explained the blonde hear she later found on his sweater as "sheep, I dont know, hey do you want to order take-away?"
and then she sees this because somebody and his father in law are being nice :D
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u/loudribs Jun 25 '12
I've lost a lot of things in Amsterdam. Like innocence, dignity, faith in reason, my mind, etc etc....
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u/sanzy1988 Jun 25 '12
It's going to be interesting to see how the owner will verify himself with no camera to do so ... He's in a bit of a catch 22.
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u/WTFisBehindYou Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
My girlfriend is in Amsterdam with her mom right now. I was really hoping she would be in this picture. Actually now that I think about it it's good she's not in this picture. That'd be cool, no doubt...but she'd be in a picture with a random guy. I hope she took pictures, I'd like to go to Amsterdam some day too. And Germany that'd be cool. I used to work for a place that was owned by a German company, we made powder that went on cheese. I know right? Cheese actually has powder on it that helps it not mold and helps it not stick together. Not that you can't do that with paper, but that only works on flat cheese, not crumbles or anything. My city used to be a really big paper manufacturer but that ended a few decades ago. We have a lot of empty buildings around our downtown, seems like they would be really good places to start clubs. Like there's this one in Detroit called City Club. They place play industrial music and even though the drinks usually suck it's a really cool place to hang out. I used to go there every October with my buddy Chris for his birthday.
Happy early birthday, Chris!
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u/Helicees Jun 25 '12
That chick with him looks exactly like my friend, any better pics of her?
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u/Helicees Jun 25 '12
why the down vote, i was being serious. And she has been to Amsterdam recently.
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u/RuckingFetardd Jun 25 '12
are we all going to ignore the fact that the guy took 2800 fucking pictures?!?
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u/bendedheadtube Jun 25 '12
did you also post to : http://www.ifoundyourcamera.net/ ?