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January 20, 2008 |
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Identity
FOUND by Melanie
in Moncton, New Brunswick
Found in the gutter downtown. A search for the rest of the card was fruitless, as though precisely cut pieces of the identity card had been deliberately scattered throughout the city.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I love finding IDs. I have a few from my years in college.
It's almost like this man is full of nostalgia and sadness, like he's losing his identity, but associates his life and what he loves with the city he feels most connected with, so he scatters himself all throughout it.
I wonder if it was a fake ID. Or maybe he had to enter the Canadian equivalent of the Witness Protection Program, so he was ridding himself of his old identity.
I know that guy. His name is Bluto.
"as though precisely cut pieces of the identity card had been deliberately scattered throughout the city."
This line from the Finder's Blurb really intrugues me.
What kind of ID card is this? Any idea? Is it an official (gov't issued) ID? A bus pass? Library card? Just wondering.
I've had the same darn spam question about 8 times in a row.
To be honest I got a really bad vibe looking at this. Some really creepy Mojo from this guy at least at first. The second and third looks actually revealed a softer man. Maybe a man who works with his hands for a living comes home sweaty tired has a cold beer.
What if my gut instinct mixed with his appearences maybe a good husband. Hard worker but a few too many beers not necessarily the nicest man after work but who is...
to sum up my feelings soft heart hard working no sunshine but no storms greyness only...
What a sad colourless world
yes. I have his nose!
(:-))
So, Jack, he couldn't be a doctor or something because he has a beard and bushy eyebrows?
As poetic as your note was, I think the appearance-based bias behind it sucks.
What kind of ID card is it? I'm guessing a mass transit card like a metro or bus pass. It looks like before it was cut up, it was kept in a plastic sleeve, maybe a monthly pass or something.
Oups!
This reminds me of an assignment in 4th grade art class. We had to glue half of a magazine photo face on paper, and draw the missing half with pencil. I found an awesome face of a bearded man in a liquor ad. He reminded me of Sebastian Cabot and also my Dad.
Cool find!
Yes! Sebastian Cabot.. Mr. French? You can't tell much from this third of a photo, but the guy does seem to be smiling a bit, and that smile touches his eyes, so I don't get a creepy vibe from this.
dear nightingale, who is sebastian cabot?
(sorry)
Yes! Sebastian Cabot.. Mr. French? You can't tell much from this third of a photo, but the guy does seem to be smiling a bit, and that smile touches his eyes, so I don't get a creepy vibe from this.
damn. slow. ignorant. f***ing. internet!
(sorry for posting thrice)
oh wait, according to my post from yesterday, i should stop blaming my misfortunes on others. yeah, that's a load of BS.
p.s. i think he's got so much hair on his face just to prove that he's one of those guys that can grow a lot of hair... cause there' guys out there who will NEVER be able to sport a full beard. I think this is kind of like a F.U. to those other (not-so-hairy-fellows).
YOU TELL 'EM, MISTER.
my whereabouts in the previous post got a bit distorted and apparently i wasn't paying attention. it *should* have simply read done for the night, only my computer remembered the post before that, which also started with a D.
GOODnight.:-)
Sarasara -- come down off the ceiling!!
Expressionless face looks more like a naive painting (Douanier Rousseau?) than a photograph.
'LI...' = Library card? Who knows.
Anyway, the point of cutting up an old ID card or credit card is that no one finds the pieces and puts them together -- so he was doing the right thing.
Happy Sunday everybody.
OOoh! I like mysteries the best! There is a company called LB Manufacturing in Moncton. Maybe it's a work ID card.
I can't put my finger on a reason, but I wish there was just a part of his nose in there. It would make the incompleteness seem more complete.
He creeps me right out, and it doesn't really have anything to do with the beard (although the whole hair-frame makes me wonder if this isn't a very old ID, since that was more a '70s style). No, what scares me is his eye. It has that sort of cold, burning craziness that I've seen in pictures of fanatics like Charles Manson (and once in a psychopath I knew). Wonder if he only cut it into 2 pirces, though?
I agree, sebastian cabot. I love this find.
Sarasara, he was an actor on this sitcom from the 70's, called Family Affair. He played, i guess the butler. Uncle Bill ended up being the guardian of three kids, i guess their parents died or something. Buffy and Jody. (i can't remember older sis' name.)
He was a crusty, english butler kind of guy, who, of course, ended up with a heart of gold, and loving the kids as much as uncle bill did. The time that buffy and jody ran away, it was a 'continued next week' thing, and i cried myself to sleep every night, worrying about them.
I get a bad vibe from this guy's shifty eye, too.
The older sister on Family Affair was Sissy. And Buffy had this doll named Mrs. Beasley and it looked like a little old lady. I got one for Christmas or maybe birthday when I was about five years old.
It's really, really cold here (thirteen below zero) and I'm really hungover. I had a headache the size of Cleveland. Must get some Smarties and a glass of water and -- most importantly -- a Bloody Mary. Must be better by Big Game.
Yay Moncton! (Glad to know there are other finders around here!)
I have never seen a card that looks like that issued by an official institution that I'm familiar with (in or around the city).
So it's not a bus pass/ driving license / library card / metro card / government-issued I.D. or anything like that, unless the guy is not from here.
Mr. French was a gentleman's gentleman, his phrase on the show.
Ryan Reynolds' witness protection ID.
He looks like the he's in the russian mafia.
Sebastian Cabot was my first thought, too. In addition to Mr. French some may recognize his voice as that of Bagheera the panther from Disney's The Jungle Book and the nararator of the Winnie the Pooh movies. I fell in love with his velvet voice long ago.
Yum! Total hottie. Wish I could see the whole picture.
Being a connoisseur of libraries myself I have never seen a library card that was issued with a picture ID. That's not to say that they don't exist. I agree with whoever said it looks more like a bus pass or something. I also think it looks like a work ID tag, maybe for a janitor or something. The whole thing looks kind of foreign to me. The style of the card and the man in the picture both kind of have a middle-eastern look to them.
"A search for the rest of the card was fruitless, as though precisely cut pieces of the identity card had been deliberately scattered throughout the city."
I am an archaeologist (one reason I love "Found") and this reminds me of working on a dig. You'll come across a really neat find--but only one bit of it! You start to wonder What happened to the rest of it? Were the other bits picked up by someone else? Did water wash it away? Was it purposefully broken and then the pieces scattered everywhere? It's damnfully frustrating...but adds to the mystery...
Mr. Buton French, Russian Spy and Television Nanny. Buffy killed herself, so no wonder he cut up his ID card.
For some reason I always confuse Sebastian Cabot and Burl Ives in my mind, and yes I am old enough to know better. Burl Ives was the Snowman in the old Ruldolph Christmas special.
I hated "Family Affair"--particularly Jody. (I've always disliked little redhaired boys with more freckles than face.) But it was like a train wreck--I kept having to watch it. We called our older sister "Sissy" too--don't know if it was a 60's thing or just a copycat.
This guy looks like a Pentecostal pastor I used to know a few years back. He had a wicked temper.
"What is the opposite of bad?" Awesome, of course!
It's Hugo, Man of a Thousand Faces.
Baby basil, did you know that Snowman's name was "Sam"?
Hey, I know Hugo! This could absolutely be him!
That's a lot of eyebrow.
Oof! The FOUND site got hit with the goofy stick! Ouch! All's better now. Enjoy!
Delighted to see you back up and running, Found!! (Thanks, Jason!) You had us worried for a while there. Not to mention bored to tears.
I was taking down the Christmas tree, so I missed the goofy stick.
Uncle Bill was in Disney movies in the 1960s and he played the father in the original Parent Trap with Hayley Mills. I love that movie! At that time we thought Hayley was such a weird name for a girl. Now lots of girls are named Hayley, and most of them don't even know who Hayley Mills was.
My sister and I used to make fun of Buffy and Sissy.
Oh no! Just noticed the spam protection is a challenging math problem. ACK!! EEK!! ..that's me screaming.. fear.. frustration.. ihatemath
I like this man. He looks like my daddy did when i was very little, and he still had a full beard. He now has just the mustache.
I went to high school with the girl who played Buffy, Anissa Jones. She was, unfortunately, a story right out of the Hollywood Child Star Chronicles... very sadly, she OD'd senior year. It was deemed accidental.
i think i like the
back story more than
the find, actually.
that is one epic beard.
if i were a man, and i
could grow facial hair,
i would totally grow a
beard like that. alas,
i am not. :[
Don't you know it, Drinless. When I was about 4 or 5 I realised that little girls can't grow beards (well, most little girls). I cried for 2 days and didn't dare tell my parents why! It was the realisation that I'd never have a full, bushy beard!
Now I'm married to a bald man who refuses to grow a beard because he says it will look like he's trying to compensate for being follicularly challenged up top.
dang! foiled again.
must remember to cut myself up into smaller pieces next time.
Totally, it's Mr. French!!
'Family Affair' was a dear, of show. I remember days of 'ol visiting with my Grandmother and having lunch. We'd watch it together eating our 'cucumber and mayo' quarted sandwiches!!
The show would start at 'noon, my Grandma and I would be sitting with those 60's/70's T.V. trays in front of us that held our lunch.
I miss my Grams'...and 'Family Affair' for that matter.
He looks like he's peeking out from behind a wall.
With an ax.
I like the name Anissa.
Hugo, then you'll be a Man of a Thousand Pieces.
Just a note
even though calling you out will likely never see this since it's days later...
Do you not think a docter works with his hands ?
Can he not get sweaty and tired afterwork
Personal experience speaks otherwise in this field perhaps you were too quick to judge my words.
Also I chose an actual physical job as most often you have more freedom over your body many offices not all have policies against facial hair so full. Many jobs with the food and service industry actually require you by laws to shave...
this left jobs where you work with your hands ...this doesn't mean lumberjack or construction worker only at a trades fair you will find fasion designers beside bakers beside sheet metal workers beside dentists etc.. All trades use your hands and if you work hard you get sweaty especially under a toasty beard lol.
Doesn't everyone think they've met this guy? I swear he could be my aunt's late ex-husband, except that would make it a mightly old ID photo.
Saddam, call New Brunswick; we found your old i.d. card!
This looks so much like my dad circa 1975.
You should see his half-assed brother's I.D..
I am from NB, and up until the early 90's you had to get a picture ID from the New Brunswick Liquor Board in order to get into bars, or buy booze from a liquor store, because NB driver's licenses did not have a photo. they were hideously orange and stamped all over with LB (for Liquor Board i assume). may not be, but sure looks like one
The first thing that popped into my head upon seeing this was: Saddam!
And my next thought was: Or maybe Amish?
Me too Emily The first thing I thought was Saddam. It was his library card and it fell out of his pocket when they took him out of the Spider Hole. You know George Bush doesn't read and hates libraries.hmm unless they have his name on it..which he can't read anyway.