Sep 14, 2017
Chip starts the podcast out talking in 3rd person, maybe it is
the Gose beers talking from Anderson Valley Brewing Company. Cern
loves the G&T which is after the Gin & Tonic which was Cern’s
stand by drink for many years. If you have a favorite sour beer
send us a tweet at @chipandcernshow on Twitter.
Chip, according to Cern, doesn’t toot his own horn a lot, but
he says deep down in his core he is a good person. Chip and Cern
always chat during the day like friends and lovers tend to
do.
Chip was headed to Costco and snagged a sweet EV charging spot
which is highly coveted. When he got out of his car he went to snag
the cart that the guy who just left the cart there. When Chip
walked up to the cart there was a several thousand dollar DSLR
Nikon camera with a baller ass lens sitting in the cart. The person
before had clearly left it behind. Chip wanted to return the camera
to the person and put it back in his trunk before running his
errands to Costco and Target.
Chip looked it up on Amazon and the body of the camera was 2k
and the lens was 2k as well. Chip looked at the SD card to see if
this person left any contact info on it. This person had a label
maker with his last name on the camera. It wasn’t a super unique
last name, but Chip took to Facebook and messaged a few people who
fit the description of what Chip saw in Costco parking
lot.
In Facebook Messenger, Chip send this message to the suspects,
“Hey were you at Costco in Novato. I think you lost something and I
might have it.”
5 messages later, no response.
Cern said he would look for a few hours to find the owner.
Cern, like Chip was looking to avoid some bad juju, and would look
for the owner.
Chip had Suspect #1 and Googled this guy on the White Pages
and called him on his home phone. The guy picked up and said he saw
Chip’s message, but he didn’t lose the camera. This was day 2 on
the case and the case went COLD. Everyone knows if you don’t find
the missing person in the first 48, well, RIP.
Day 3: comes around and Chip calls Costco to report the lost
camera to their lost and found area.
Day 4: Nothing. The case was cold.
Day 5: Costco’s Loss Prevention calls Chip asking him some
questions about where he lives, and if he can just drop the camera
by Costco so they can return. The guy then told Chip to leave his
contact info, which he already had because he was calling Chip on
his phone. The Costco person then said, “well the Novato Police are
involved as well, so we might just let them handle it.”
Day 6: Chip drove to the Novato Police Station which is a few
miles from his house. Chip didn’t really even want to keep the
camera because it was so nice and he couldn’t really even use it.
He put the camera in a brown Trader Joe’s bag and went with his
daughter to the Police Station. Chip explained the situation to the
officer including age, height, car model, year and color. The
officer was pretty fed up with all the info Chip was providing. The
camera was so big it wouldn’t fit in their dual secure area.
He asked for the guy to give him a call when he picks the camera
up.
Chip was disappointed in the lack of fanfare and wasn’t sure
what he expected. Cern said he should have got the key to the City.
Chip was hoping for a write up in the paper for Novato Citizen of
the Week.
Cern once saw a lady drop $100 from her purse in the grocery
story and retired it much to the lady’s surprise.
Chip once lost his GoPro that he set down to record as he road
his bike by, so that was $300 in the hole there.
Chip has decided to avoid the headache and just go right in
and return the camera to the store right away.
Cern thinks Chip very well could have been a suspect in the
missing camera case.
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