A VHS movie camera reported stolen in Mount Isa, Queensland, in 1998 has been returned to its owner after two decades.
Hughenden police said that earlier this year while cleaning a vacated residence, "an interesting item of property was found" and handed into Hughenden Police Station.
The interesting item was a VHS movie camera, a video staple of the analog era.
After 22 years, the owner states she even still has VHS tapes with recordings from the camera.
VHS is short for Video Home System, developed by JVC in Japan in the 1970s.
Hughenden police had no idea who owned this particular VHS movie camera complete with case, tape and cords.
After the mandatory 60 day expiry period ended during which no one claimed the property, the station's senior sergeant tracked it back to an incident in Mount Isa in 1998 when a lady named Sharon Stretton reported a missing VHS.
Ms Stretton now lives in Gympie but it turned out the missing equipment was hers.
Police have reunited the camera with Ms Stretton who said her son in his 20s was playing with it.
Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
