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How a Couple of Kids Returned a Phone to Its Owner Through Using Instagram

Chris Gampat
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08/26/2013
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This post originally appeared on the Moving Desk of  Kim Ho on August 12th, 2013, and is being syndicated at The Phoblographer with her permission.

Every once in a while you meet people who become a constant reminder that there is AWESOMENESS in this world. 

I was out biking with my friend this past weekend and for whatever reason we miscommunicated with one another about what we had packed, long story shortâ€Ĥ

He: Put his wallet and cell phone in a velcro pouch at the back of my bike with good intention that this would get us some drinks at our destination point.

I: had no idea there was a wallet or cell phone on the back of my bike. Before the ride I had confirmed with him that I put all of his belongings (wallet, keys, phone, etc.) in storage back at the house, this was only half true since the other half of his things was with me & my bike.

We: had an amazing few hours biking along the country side. Lots of bumpy windy gravel roads on our route.  Lots of opportunity to lose a wallet or phone. We arrive back at the house super eager to grab some water when my sister comes out to say hi to us, commenting on the prank that we had just pulled while out biking.

We had no clue what she was talking about.

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She pulls up her Instagram and shows us my friend’s feed. Someone had posted on his behalf via his Instagram account, from his phone.

This is the video they posted …


These kids are brilliant. Pure awesome. We called his number immediately & they answered the phone! They told us they were at the Skate Park so we biked over and there was his phone waiting for us. No harm done to the phone, they just wanted to give it back to its rightful owner! They could have sold the phone, made some good coin and continued skating, but they didn’t. Instead they took a few goofy pictures and filmed this sweet video.

I have to commend them on their creativity, their playfulness, and their honest nature- totally feeling inspired today about all the good folks in this world. All smiles.

Thanks to Kim Ho for sharing this amazing story and for her permission to syndicate it.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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