GoPro survives a 10,000-foot free fall and finds its rightful owner

 By 
Brian Koerber
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Lost GoPro cameras are the glass slippers of our time.

While on the hunt for fungi in a field in Gringelstad, Sweden, in September, Leif Orstadius discovered a GoPro camera.

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The camera and memory card were miraculously still intact; the latest video on the card revealed that the GoPro had been kicked from a skydiver's helmet, mid-jump.

Leif's son, Kristoffer -- a journalist for Dagens Nyheter, a daily newspaper in Sweden -- uploaded the footage to YouTube, asking for the owner of the camera to come forward. Orstadius wanted to return the mangled GoPro and memory card to its rightful place.

Just one day after the video was uploaded to YouTube on Friday, Orstadius had an update: The owner was Tobias Persson, a current resident of Everod, Sweden.

Persson told Orstadius to keep the camera, but he gladly accepted the recovered memory card.

But perhaps more interesting is how trippy the footage looks as it careens to the ground without a parachute.

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