A few weeks ago, I posted about Judith's lost camera, which had been lost (and found) during a trip to Hawaii. There is a resolution to the story, in that her lost camera was returned. She posts on her blog:
How did you get the camera back?
It basically comes down to being very lucky on a few different fronts.
1) I lost the camera in a national park, which gave me access to a centralized lost-and-found system and really great people whose job is reuniting people with their lost property. It also meant that the law was very clear: nothing is to be removed from a national park. Though this law is of course meant to protect the artifacts and wildlife in our parks, it also covers found objects. If I'd lost the camera elsewhere, I think it would have been much harder to recover.
2) The fact that the family did not live in the US meant that the "or else" part of the "return it or else" equation actually had some teeth - as I understand it, the park police would have been able to issue a warrant that would potentially bar the family from entering the US if it came up at a border check.
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