Remember the commercial with the fishbowl on top of the car...
Jun 11, 2021 11:52:10 #
Well, I had my hands full and the dog was wanting in the car so I laid my Fujifilm XT-4 with its 100-400mm lens on top of the car. I got everything secured and started driving away when I heard a funny noise on top of the car. I stopped and looked and gasp. My camera was still up there - I had forgotten it in the hustle & bustle of getting the dog and stool in the car. Was I lucky! I had not gone far enough on this residential road to get up speed or hit a pothole.
Happen to anyone else?
Happen to anyone else?
Jun 11, 2021 12:03:20 #
Yes, years ago. I had my Minolta 101 , and going some place. I put it temporarily on my car, and forgot.
Unfortunately I didn't realize it until I got a few blocks away. I went back and found it in to snow on the road. The camera didn't hold up to well.
Unfortunately I didn't realize it until I got a few blocks away. I went back and found it in to snow on the road. The camera didn't hold up to well.
Jun 11, 2021 12:10:40 #
It happened to my mentor. He had a top brand 2 1/4 x 2 1/4. He was on the road with the camera in bag safely packed in the trunk.
For some reason, he needed something in the trunk and the camera bag was in the way so he put it on the top of the car. He found that thing and in his hurry left the camera bag on top of the car. Eventually it dawned to him what he did with the camera bag - he was not as lucky. He was so upset he never replaced the camera and got out of photography altogether.
Sad. decades later on a visit I tried to interest him in my Nikon DSLR and he was adamant that he wasn't interested. Mustive been a real shock to him to carry that loss around as long as he did.
What happened to him stuck with me. I NEVER put anything on top of my car and do a mental check list when I stop for any reason and am about to leave
For some reason, he needed something in the trunk and the camera bag was in the way so he put it on the top of the car. He found that thing and in his hurry left the camera bag on top of the car. Eventually it dawned to him what he did with the camera bag - he was not as lucky. He was so upset he never replaced the camera and got out of photography altogether.
Sad. decades later on a visit I tried to interest him in my Nikon DSLR and he was adamant that he wasn't interested. Mustive been a real shock to him to carry that loss around as long as he did.
What happened to him stuck with me. I NEVER put anything on top of my car and do a mental check list when I stop for any reason and am about to leave
Jun 11, 2021 12:24:37 #
josquin1
Loc: Massachusetts
I think many violinists have left their instrument on top of their car and driven off. Some with dire consequences and some with the good luck of it not being blown off the car.
Jun 11, 2021 12:35:27 #
Dragonophile wrote:
Well, I had my hands full and the dog was wanting ... (show quote)
Many years ago, on a trip to Germany, I left my camera on the roof of our rental car after a sightseeing stop. I was about to drive off when I saw this man frantically waving his arms yelling "DIE KAMERA...DIE KAMERA!". Thankfully, he stopped me just in time....
Jun 11, 2021 13:01:45 #
alliebess
Loc: suburban Philadelphia
Haven't done it with a camera, but did it with a large cup of soda. As I started to drive, a girl flagged me down and I stopped, thanked her and retrieved it.
Jun 11, 2021 13:06:08 #
Not on top of the car, but we went to New Orleans and checked into a hotel. When we got to the room, there was a message on the phone. We picked it up, it was the front desk. Seems my wife left her purse in the taxi. The taxi driver returned it to us. He got a nice tip.
Yo Yo Ma famously left his multi-million dollar cello in a taxi in NYC once.
Yo Yo Ma famously left his multi-million dollar cello in a taxi in NYC once.
Jun 12, 2021 07:49:13 #
Sadly as a paramedic I responded to a person who left their baby in a car seat sitting on top of the car roof and drove off. I will spare you the details. A vision that still haunts me.
Jun 12, 2021 08:26:51 #
I have put things on top of cars, but don't remember driving away and losing them. Usually a tool laid down just below the windshield.
I did leave my Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus on the fender well under the hood and drove a couple of miles, fortunately for me it remained in place.
I did leave my Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus on the fender well under the hood and drove a couple of miles, fortunately for me it remained in place.
Jun 12, 2021 08:28:03 #
Jun 12, 2021 08:40:21 #
josquin1 wrote:
I think many violinists have left their instrument on top of their car and driven off. Some with dire consequences and some with the good luck of it not being blown off the car.
Wow. I've been playing the violin, and playing in orchestras, since 1964. I have never seen or heard of a violinist (or violist) leaving the instrument on top of a car. The first thing we do is get that fragile instrument in the car. Everything else is secondary.
Jun 12, 2021 08:45:06 #
I was heading out to give a seminar. My slides were all neatly arraigned in a Carousel slide holder. As I pulled away from the office and sped up, I noticed the carousel rolling alongside the car. I had left it on the roof of the car. It was spewing slides out all over the road. Not a great way to start out to give a seminar. Ability to ad lib helped
Jun 12, 2021 08:53:01 #
wakeupnfly
Loc: wyandotte, Mi
Dragonophile wrote:
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Back in the 70's I was loading up some sound equipment and set a 7 in. spool of reel to reel tape on the roof of the car. I got in the car and did a short ride to the main road, and turned right. I realized what I had done when I was PASSED by the spool of tape, rolling and unwinding down the road! I was able to stop and retrieve it. I scrapped the unrolled portion!
Jun 12, 2021 08:59:39 #
russelray wrote:
Wow. I've been playing the violin, and playing in orchestras, since 1964. I have never seen or heard of a violinist (or violist) leaving the instrument on top of a car. The first thing we do is get that fragile instrument in the car. Everything else is secondary.
There was an article in the NYC papers years ago about a student at, I believe Juliard, who left her violin in a cab. As I recall it was a Stradivarius, hence all the media attention. She got it back and I bet she never forgot it again!
Jun 12, 2021 09:10:46 #
Dragonophile wrote:
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Yes, that would be a nightmare. Luckily I have never driven away with a camera or anything really on top of my car. I never put my cameras on top of my hood or car top but my wife sometimes does when she swaps cameras for me. I am never happy with that.
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