Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Detective work

I found a VCE visual art diary on the train yesterday belonging to a year 11 student. Unfortunately, apart from her name (which was quite a common one) and her artistic talent, I knew nothing else about the owner. I decided to take the visual diary to the office to do some detective work to see if I could return it to the rightful owner.

I tried facebook first. There were 13 people with the same name. Two were from Melbourne. Unfortunately they were both older ladies and couldn't possibly be the right person. An attempt to search for the owner on myspace was equally disappointing.

I then turned to google. Two school girls matched the name and city. I called the school of the first girl. Yes there was a girl by that name at the school but she was not in year 11. I then tried the school of the next girl, someone who had two years ago won some accolaide for dancing. Bingo! It was her! Am dropping the diary off to lost property tonight and she is going to pick it up tomorrow.

7 comments:

Victor said...

Well done, Hercule Poirot.

Campbell said...

Well done indeed Sherlock Holmes.
For that age she was probably on Myspace.

Adaptive Radiation said...

Thanks. Hopefully it brings good karma! I got a thankyou text from her this morning. She has picked it up already. I was quite surprised not to find her on either facebook or myspace.

Evol Kween said...

Wow, you'll definitely get a truckload of good karma for that!

The Mutant said...

I'm pretty sure they make you a saint for stuff like that now. Karma is seriously going to give you the best blow-job of your life!

Victor said...

@ Mutant - in which case where can buy some of this Karma stuff?

Adaptive Radiation said...

Thanks Evol Kween and Mutant.

Victor - with all the volunteer work you do, I don't think you'd need to buy any good karma. You should be positively swimming in the stuff.