My goodness Tanya. I can't stop crying... I've banged mine hard on the
kitchen counter once while holding it in my hand and I've had it roll off
the car seat to the floor of the car while braking too hard, but nothing
like this. I feel your pain.
Comfort comes in the fact that you cared most about was most precious and
the only tragedy was an inanimate object(s).
It might do the rest of us some good if you could take some shots of the
pieces you recovered. I'm quite curious what a PZ-1p/lens looks like after
a 50 ft drop.
OT: Possible wives-tale. My wife was telling me last weekend that one her
girlfriend's aways back husband was a beef buyer and would travel the
country to cattle auctions. The term "cancer-beef" apparently applied to
cattle that had tumors and were otherwise "unprime". Apparently, according
to the story, McDonalds was consistently the buyer of this kind of livestock
and always bought it up quickly.
Tom C.
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From: "Tanya & Russell Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:30 AM
Subject: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day....
> Hello all,
>
> I apologise for my tardiness in keeping up with all of your wonderful
> replies - all I can do is blame it on the fact that today was shopping day
> and I had to screaming kids begging me to take them to Macca's for "happy
> meals".
>
> However, I digress, and as such I must now revert back to the tragedy of
> today. Actually, multiple tragedies really, so here goes....
>
> So we went to M'Donalds - just me and my two toddlers. Had a nice lunch
and
> decided to go up to our local tourist lookout for a walk. Being a nice
day,
> naturally, I chose to take with me my trusty third baby (my other two are
> human), my PZ-1P. <Warning, the following may be distressing for some
> readers, and especially the author> We got to the top and it was almost
> sunset, so I thought, hey, why don't I set up my tripod and take some
> selfportraits of myself and my boys with the sunset behind us. Hmmm, so
far
> so good. Tripod set up, cable release set up, smile, snap! smile, snap! a
> couple of nice pics for sure. Of course after two photos, my almost three
> year old (my oldest), decided to make a bolt for it categorically stating
> that he wanted to "play in park, no more pottos mum". With that, he
bolted
> down the path of the lookout. Me being a normal, concerned mum, tried to
> grab him for fear of him falling over the 50ft cliff on the other side of
> the walkway, whilst trying to hold my other baby (aged 16 months) and
> untangle myself from my cable release at the same time. I am almost too
> upset to even type this, but, alas, I shall continue, if not to console
> myself, then to at least make somebody out there feel some morsel of pity
> for me! The following moments were like one of those slow motion scenes
out
> of a movie where all the sound gets blurred and somebody yells out
> "nooooooo" whilst trying fruitlessly to prevent a tragedy from happening.
> Well, today, I was that somebody and my tragedy did happen. Lets just say
> that my Pz-1p, complete with sigma 28-80 macro zoom, pentax cable release,
> achiever 630af flash and (crappy) vanguard tripod, all went a tumbling
> straight over the cliff face. About 10 seconds and 50ft later, I opened
up
> my eyes (after all of the crashing and smashing sounds had stopped) to
find
> debris scattered down the cliff face at a huge variety of intervals. I am
> so devastated, that camera was indeed my baby. I can't buy anything else
> this year (except maybe something pretty cheap and nasty), as we are
> building a house and I start Uni next year which will be expensive, so
now,
> I am stuck with nothing but an MZ-50. (Despite my previous claims that I
> have a Pt-30, I was actually exagerrating a little in the assumption that
I
> would win an auction that I was bidding for it on. In a wonderful climax
to
> my day, I arrived home to find that I had been outbidded, and the auction
> had ended while I was trying to climb down the cliff and rescue my little
> black pieces of metal and glass that were once a very expensive camera.)!
I
> am in a severe state of shock and mourning, I sure hope some of you guys
> have some miraculous words of comfort....BTW, I had only had the PZ-1p
since
> Christmas, after I saved for two months to buy the thing! So, can anybody
> hazard a guess at which item (apart from the cable release which didn't
have
> a scratch on it) survived this travesty? The crappy Achiever Flash, of
> course! I must have done something really bad in a past life to deserve
> such torture......I will never again enjoy a "happy" meal......
> :-(
> Tanya.
>
>
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