Showing posts with label discarded things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discarded things. Show all posts

Friday, March 8, 2024

Today in discarded finds of the century on 2nd Street

Inexplicably (for now!) discarded (for now!) this afternoon outside 75 E. Second St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue. 

Does anyone have a spare U-Haul? 

(And thanks to EVG reader Camille Coric for the photo!)

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Excel curb alert

EVG reader Jackflashnyc shares this photo and tip from 10th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B: "Offering this Curb Alert for any Excel users that prefer not to use the online Help menu."

Sunday, September 4, 2022

Who wood you pick?

Many people weighed in about this discarded wood carving found on First Avenue and 14th Street yesterday

These are among the many responses to who was immortalized (then abandoned!) on this slab of wood... 

• Ben Franklin 
• Daniel Boone 
• Christopher Columbus 
• St. Thomas Moore 
• Lethal Weapon-era Mel Gibson 
• Vigo, the Carpathian 
• Lord Farquad 
• Random guy who had this done at a county fair 
• Viggo Mortensen 
• Kurt Vonnegut 
• The Quaker Oats guy (maybe on a meth bender?)
• Cesar Romero 
• Leonard Bernstein 
• Liberace 
• "My neighbor when I was a kid in Miami." 
• Paul Krasner 
• Barbara Bush 
• "Someone else who pissed off Jabba the Hutt." 

Saturday, September 3, 2022

Saturday's opening shot

Inexplicably discarded at your favorite intersection, 14th Street and First Avenue. 

And trying to figure out who this is... Benjamin Franklin? "Lethal Weapon"-era Mel Gibson? The person you always thought was hiding under your bed as a kid? 

Polling open until 9 p.m.