Can Rootschat members help? - Lost Teddy Bear 'Seeks' Owner

[farlington]

There is a profile shot of the bear on the Huffington Post website. In the slideshow section at the bottom of the article

farlington

[Maggie.]

Thanks farlington - I'll go and look.

[bugle boy]

the bear on left it's left arm patch looks a lot bigger than the bear on the rights does?
goes up to near the elbow

[lizdb]

If the bear in the photo is not the same one, or indeed of there had been no bear in the photo, it would not have altered the research that has been done.

Perhaps if the person who left the items is found, then they will enlighten us as to whether it is the same bear or not.
(Arm patches can be replaced many times during a bear's life, and will tend to get bigger each time as more of original bear wears out and needs patching!)

[Maggie.]

Similar but I don't think the same. The lie of the fur seems different even allowing for wear.  There is an intriguing dent by the nose that seems to match up, but this is actually the opposite profile - Original Bear pic flipped to match Airport Bear.  Ears look completely different to me.

Pels - I used your composite to 'lift' the bear.  Hope that's OK 

[Rosinish]

Maggie,

This is like a game of "spot the difference"?  or "See how many differences you can find"? 

Now the eyes are looking somewhat suspicious? One protruding, other sunken 

Annie

[Gadget]

Agree with you, Maggie. They are just not the same. We've done zillions of 'are they the same' on the Photo Board, so we're not inexperienced in this department

Also, could I add that

2)  the owner is not in Britain and is unaware of the publicity, or


Or possibly 5) Gone abroad and so unaware of the publicity?

... these are the same 

I really think that we should all give it a rest- Bristol Airport will have all the info that is needed and just going on and on and on and on and on and on about it  (without adding anything extra ) is not helping at all. In fact, it's just getting annoying and (possibly) making RC look daft!

Gadget

[Rosinish]

A change of angle on the subject - does anyone know if this request has had a possible "record" viewers?

Annie.

[Gadget]

In my humble opinion, after years of being on RC and seeing/contributing to many threads, I think that this thread should be locked until any more info is available. Otherwise, we'll be going round and round.  The whole thing is getting daft/ridiculous and any other adjectives that we might think of.

Gadget

PS - For the record, but I think I've said this before when Jim pointed it out in Reply #49, I don't think it's the same bear!