Posted on 04/01/2024 9:46:45 AM PDT by nickcarraway
It’s a New York nightmare: What if you accidentally throw out your precious jewelry, or money, or car keys with the city’s 24 million pounds of trash collected each day?
Last Friday, Jill, a Staten Island mother-of-three, was distraught when she realized she’d just tossed all three. Her wallet — which contained not only cash and credit cards but also car keys and a pair of gold earrings from the 1940s — had ended up in the trash after a mix-up while her daughter unloaded bags from their car.
She realized this just after a Department of Sanitation garbage truck had emptied her family’s trash cans and rolled away. Everything else would be a headache to replace. But she was crushed by the loss of the jewelry, which is a family heirloom.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The wages of stupidity.
“A sanitation worker holds a black backpack and puts his arm around a woman. Both smile and wear bright yellow vests. 5
A New York City Department of Sanitation worker (left) helped this woman retrieve her lost backpack. DSNY”
From the link
Impressive she found the items. That was true dedication tho.
Her 19-year-old daughter who mixed up the bags, meanwhile, Was put up for adoption...
Just kidding, she just lost car privileges for a week according to the article
Yes, it was.
It was no accident.
LOL, the mutt that threw away a hard drive wi his bitcoin wallet was not so fortunate...
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