Jul 7, 2009 7:47 pm US/Central
Vacationing Family Will Reunite With Lost Camera
Dennis Sneyers Of Chicago Finds Camera Believed To Be From Dallas Lying On LaSalle Street
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
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This photo of a girls' softball team is one of more than a thousand belonging to a family that lost a digitial camera and several discs in the Loop. Dennis Sneyers found the camera, and has deduced that its owner is in Dallas, Texas.
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This photo at the Texas Rangers Ballpark is one of more than a thousand belonging to a family that lost a digitial camera and several discs in the Loop. Dennis Sneyers found the camera, and has deduced that its owner is in Dallas, Texas.
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A Chicago man has plans Tuesday night to reunite a camera and thousands of digital pictures with their owner after finding the camera on the street on his way home from work.
Dennis Sneyers was driving home from work in the Loop around 4:45 p.m. Monday when he found a camera bag lying in the middle of LaSalle Street near Wacker Drive.
He pulled over his car and got out, and grabbed the bag before it might have been run over. He looked for identification when he got home, but didn't see any.
"Then I started looking through the pictures and was able to determine it belongs to a family from the Dallas area as they had played on several ballfields in Texas including Texas Rangers Stadium," Sneyers wrote in an e-mail to CBS 2.
Sneyers sent CBS 2 two of the photos. One shows a girls' softball team gathering on a field for an informal picture with their trophies. Another shows a woman and three children in a skybox at Texas Rangers Ballpark.
There were seven or eight photo discs in the bag, containing close to 1,000 pictures in total, Sneyers said.
Sneyers proceeded to call 10 hotels in Chicago leaving his name and contact number. He also sent e-mails to several coaches listed on the Web site for America Fastpitch Softball, the league name that appears on the girls' uniforms in the picture.
Sneyers said he also reached out to two clients in the Dallas area, both of whom have neighbors with children who play in the America Fastpitch Softball league and will show them the pictures.
The owners of the camera are Jeff and Jane Brandt of Dallas, Texas. The Brandts say the camera found by Dennis Sneyers in the loop yesterday belongs to them.
The Brandts received a call from Jeff's mom who had learned of the story in Dallas. CBS 2 passed on Jane Brandt's cell phone number to Sneyers.
Sneyers then called Brandt and was told that her husband and children are currently in Chicago vacationing.
During their brief phone conversation, Sneyers asked Brandt to describe some of the photos in the camera.
Brandt said, "I can do better than that…there are two little girls seen in many of the photos, one with glasses on. And guess what, you're going to meet them both tonight."
Jeff Brandt and his two daughters are currently at a Cubs game at Wrigley Field. Sneyers will meet them in Wrigleyville after the game is over to return the camera.
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