So this has been going on for a few days, I go on the site Pikabu occasionally to practice Russian but this story has gripped me a little and made a lot of people flip out. I am new to Reddit though, I have read all the rules and hope I have complied with them all.

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Unfortunately the pictures are not translatable using google translate so I will try and explain.

(7 August 2016) The guy has an expensive Sony camera and notices that someone on his social media site vk wants to buy one but isn't sure if she should buy it. The girl is an acquaintance from a long time before but decides to lend it to her, 'how much?' she asks, 'for free' he replies, just return it in a couple of days. She tells hem how happy he has made her and expresses her appreciation.

He didn't get it back after a couple of days but doesn't need it at that moment so decides to wait until the end of September. He asks her about it and she said that she will still not be returning to Novobirsk for a while.

In October he asks her again and she explains that her friend was meant to bring it but he forgot.

Then in November she explains that the camera got broken because 'a waiter poured wine on it' and she needs to get it fixed.

some more off topic messages are exchanged to break up the awkwardness of the situation, then he follows up with her again and she said she's ordered some spare parts.

In January he messages her over a few days and she doesn't reply, eventually she says it needs a new screen and she ordered a replacement. He complains that its already new year and still no camera, and she says she knows and cant believe how slow the store is.

In February he asks her about it again and she said that she had to pay a lot of money for the new screen, and they are just fixing it. Then a few weeks later he asks her if they have returned it yet to which she initially ignores him and then sends him some kind of voice message.

In late march he follows up with her again but gets nothing, they start discussing her just giving him money for the camera, he says they no longer stock this camera in Novobirsk but estimates the value to be 21thousand rubles based on what's selling second hand.

She says that the original camera is okay and she broke the lens and she just needs to buy a new lens. Dima at this point says, 'Just send it to me, don't worry about fixing, I'll just be happy to have it back'.

She said she's at a wedding and will talk about it later, he messages her a couple of times with no reply. Eventually she replies and says, so what are we doing? He tells her send the camera and how long will it take, he also says he would like 10k rubles for the lens which is far less than what it will cost to replace, she says she can get it to him may 20th.

He messages her on may 25th asking about the camera but she says that Dasha didn't send it (I don't know if that's her friend or the courier but I assume the courier). Dima says its not funny anymore, send the money for the camera. He sends her a few more messages asking if she's found another way to send the camera, she just says 'i'll send it soon'. He asks her about the money and replies 'oh, how much' he reminds her but has to say her name again to which she simply replies 'I heard you'

He messages her a couple of times, then asks her why do you ignore me? To which she replies -"what am I meant to do write to you every day?"

He says his patience has run out and send money or the camera and he will keep reminding her until she does.

2 months passed and still nothing.

So it was basically a year and its pretty obvious she doesn't want to give it back, it happens that some people are this way inclined but this is where it gets really interesting. He posts the story on Pikabu which spawns a massive attention and a huge volume of memes. (Verni Kameru/ верни камеру) just means return the camera and her name is contracted to Rita. (See below link)

https://pikabu.ru/story/rita_verni_kameru_5308898

So naturally a backlash follows and her vk account gets flooded, people get hold of her cellphone number and write her messages.

At this point any ordinary person would give up. You've been found out, you know you are in the wrong, the internet is putting pressure on you, your friends and family are getting messages so you would think she would simply return it, or at the very least come clean and explain what happened. Some mitigating information which may garner sympathy.

But instead she makes a post without mentioning the camera once saying she is the victim of an online tirade and makes a mention of the the netflix series black mirror.

She makes further posts expressing that she has become increasingly angry and uses the hashtag #resist, again not mentioning the camera.

Eventually she makes one last post saying she is sending Dima the money and he will recieve it on Monday so everyone should stop talking about it. Monday came and he still hasn't received the Money.

For me personally I would like to know - How does she justify it to herself exploiting the kindness of a stranger. And how does she justify it to her friends and family, some of whom appear to have posted on vk telling her just to return it. -What really happened with the camera, did she sell it, did it really break?

As I said I have tried to be mindful of the reddit rules so I would appreciate if someone tells me if I have broken any. There have been more developments and Dima - the guy who's camera it is did a web interview on youtube about everything. As it stands Rita has closed her VK account to all public comments as well as all her other social media platforms. I hope people find this story interesting, the language barrier made it hard for me to relay all the information with 100% accuracy and in an interesting way but I tried my best as I think it's pretty accurate.

**Guys thanks for all the kind feedback - A quick update - the story made national news and you can see it here https://youtu.be/_BkQA6ZcVp4 **