I found a digital camera in the woods [not for 56k]

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Last week I drove to a nearby town. The town is surrounded by tall hills and mountains, and you can have a very pleasant hike down any of the numerous trails there. Anyway, I was climbing one trail and enjoying the good weather when I saw what looked like a silver box. When I approached, I saw it was a digital camera!

It's a 3.3 mpixel powershot S20! Slightly scuffed, but otherwise fine. It rained the next day, so I was really lucky to get there when I did. When I got home, I also saw it had a 300mb hard drive inside! I pity the fool who dropped it so carelessly. Anyway, just wanted to share. It also had some nice pictures on it, so I thought I'd share them.

― thefoxgal, Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

nice pics! though maybe you should, like, put up some found signs near where you found it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

holy crap, those photos look like someone from Blair Witch was taking them and running from whatever it is that's out there. they start off peaceful and end up blurrier and off axis. freaky

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, god, I'd be heartsick if I lost my camera like that - especially one loaded with images.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Err yeah - shouldn't you hand it in to the local police station, or am I hopelessly old-fashioned?

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

not old fashioned, just ethical.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the previous owner has already been overcome by

THE FOG

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

of war?

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously, I want to know where that is so I can film a digital horror film there and scare those pussies on the new "horror films are scary" thread shitless.

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I suppose the wandering undead of the woods *wouldn't* have so much use for a digital camera. I mean, unless they were on vacation.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

vacation from hell!

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Look at those photos a little more closely guys...

(GBS/SA REPRESENT!)

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa, pic#25 is the creepiest thing

― chrisco (chrisco), Sunday, 22 August 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

look at the picture of the woods b4 the picture of the stairs by the second largest tree on the left of the screen theirs something standing by it creepy or wot.

― mdb, Sunday, 22 August 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

check out the lower right area of #5

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

we are being duped by a marketing person or hoax pertpetrator, dudes.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

what is GBS/SA?

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really understand what is so creepy, but nonetheless I just got a chill down my spine. Hmm...

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't this the same image server that the gaping anal porn used to be on?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just realised why I'm scared - I've got earmuffs on.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome photos, I don't care how rigged they are.

Alba: Look for shadowy figures in shots 5, 18, 25.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I mean I've seen the shadowy figures. They're not very shadowy though. They're just some bloke in the fog.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Looks to me like 5 and 18 were added later. The outline's too sharp.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

haha 18 is CREEPY

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, youre right, and not just the people. That tree in the middle looks distinctly evil.

― chrisco (chrisco), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yes indeed it is!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.4bitterguys.com/adam/blowup.jpg

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.4bitterguys.com/adam/blowup.jpg

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoops.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus those are some creepy ass photos!!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

there's also someone in the lower right window of #17. but yeah, cool pictures aside, the marketing stunt is silly.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

what are they marketing though?

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Motor insurance.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

More of the same...but with all the images linked.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1194390
They caught onto the photoshop edits pretty quick.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

How's it selling car insurance?

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Proof #5 was tampered with [it's big]: http://img19.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img19&image=BIGPICTURE.jpg

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and for maximum effect, play Treefingers/Optimistic/In Limbo whilst looking at the above pictures.

Oh and Pinefox missed one, which is perhaps the most atmospheric and accomplished of the lot:

ihttp://img4.exs.cx/img4/6431/pshot20.jpg

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and for maximum effect, play Treefingers/Optimistic/In Limbo whilst looking at the above pictures.

Oh and Pinefox missed one, which is perhaps the most atmospheric and accomplished of the lot: http://img4.exs.cx/img4/6431/pshot20.jpg

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus! This site's seriously screwy today.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

not PF, btw.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The idea of the pinefox being behind this is almost too horrifying to comtemplate.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Sigh.

Can I start again?

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently the location of the pics is Woodstock, NY
http://bisti.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Woodstock2004

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Sunday, 22 August 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

this is obviously a hoax, but i admire whoever's behind it.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 August 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, my dad has a friend who lives in the woods there. Perhaps he is a zombie now.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 22 August 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

dick van dyke is behind this.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 August 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

A guy on the SomethingAwful forums took these and fucked with 'em before posting it on their General Bullshit Forum. The jig lasted all of five minutes.

There's a bunch of creatures from Doom 3, a couple from an old kid's storybook and the predator worked into them.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a marketing thing. Just a kid with a camera and a lot of time.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I hug the person who did this.

― Harold Media (kenan), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello Chums,
Someone posted it to http://www.ilxor.com , where they all took it far too seriously.
Fond Regards,

Mikey Bidness

Hmm.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

traitor.

kill him.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

*Is cornered*

I AM JUST THE MESSENGER!

*Takes out pistol, shoots self*

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

You got OWNED, Mikey.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer something a little more like...

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://pintland.org/users/mikey/pwned.jpg

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

back to something awful, with you.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Nevair! I was lurking here long before I happened across the internet frat dorm that is SA.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

we don't pay to post to OUR forums, suckers!

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Something Awful costs US$10 to join in order to post.

Not that this should become an SA-bashing thread.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's true, if you'd like access to some of the forums, there's a 9.95USD charge - but hell, it came with access to a lot of FTP servers and such, so I figured it was worth the spare change in my pocket.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

excuses, excuses.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

So when's my ILX drumming out parade with the snapping of the sabres and the ripping off of the badges?

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

there are a least a handful of SA goons around ILX...

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

we're more civilised, than that.

I just ignore you, from this point on.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i happily paid my :10 bux: for an SA account after reading the stuff in the Comedy Goldmine and bits like when they invaded some shitty Sony online dating game

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

your sense of humour suddenly makes more or less sense.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you. I felt that way, too.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

plus, the photos look like they were taken from the Science Base section from Far Cry...

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

your addition makes no sense, at all, though.

I'll stop, soon.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

What a grumpy old curmudgeon!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

in all my years...

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

the other unfun thing about Far Cry is that when you cap one of the trigen monkeys, they're heads don't disappear in a fountaining geyser of blood, like when you get a sniper headshot on a badguy.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Sunday, 22 August 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

in all your years...

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

bits like when they invaded some shitty Sony online dating game

oddly enough, earlier today I was re-reading that Dating Game bit on SA and was laughing my ass off just like when I first read it.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Sunday, 22 August 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

we don't pay to post to OUR forums, suckers!

Er, quite a few have done, old chap!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Mikey.
Shutup you traitor! You cannot serve two masters. You will love one, and hate the other.

― Lukey Smithness, Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I SERVE NO MASTAAAH!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I particularly like the pics of the ruined building.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 22 August 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anybody know what kind of building it was?

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 22 August 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Pentagrams drawn in blood (or Pantone 1665 :-)) on the walls in #16 - one in centre and one above steps.
Slightly right of centre it might possibly say BS on the wall.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 22 August 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i knew Belle and Sebastian fans would be behind this act of pure evil.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 August 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

where did these pictures originate, though? w/out the lurking figures, they're still pretty cool

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 22 August 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously, I want to know where that is so I can film a digital horror film there and scare those pussies on the new "horror films are scary" thread shitless.

WELL I NEVER!!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 22 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like it when people on other internet boards talk about ILX

It makes me think of Grange Hill, and the opaquely-known world of the other school down the road, that was sometumes involved in storylines.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 22 August 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

It is totally a guy doing robotic dancing in picture 5.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 22 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

See now, this would have been a much better and scarier (if more expensive) prank if someone loaded up their digital camera with these altered pics and really did leave it lying out near a hiking trail where someone would find it. Y'know.. smear a little blood and zombie dust on it first of course... and then watch the papers.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 22 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

It would have been even better and scarier than that if they loaded it up with unaltered pictures, of actual zombies and murders. This is probably impractical, though.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 22 August 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Impractical yeah, zombies are notoriously photogenic and never appear at all scary in pictures.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 22 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Zombies as a rule aren't very pratical, being the living dead ain't no fun.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 22 August 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor zombies. Their plight is almost reminiscent of Britney's "Lucky" narrative... coincidence?

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 22 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

They remind me of the Gary Hill video installation where he's got video cameras attached to his feet and hands and walking around a bombed out building like that one.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Sunday, 22 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

We lost our digital camera in Pompeii and nobody ever posted the pictures out of it... Good thing really now that I think of it.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Sunday, 22 August 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

fags

― sdaf, Sunday, 22 August 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

aw, he didn't find the Doom 3 hell monkeys...

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll confess to being one of those losers that even though i know it's fake still gets spooked the fuck out by photos like this

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

ha classic

― czn, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

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