Cleaned Out

[batmagadanleadoff]

The Daily News is running an article about an Upper East Side resident whose apartment was mistakenly cleaned out during a botched eviction. The guy gets home from work (he's a software developer for Deloitte and Touche) and notices that his apartment is empty. His lifetime possessions are all gone. Furniture, his entire wardrobe, priceless and irreplaceable photographs. Everything. Even his toilet paper. Here's the link: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/ues-man-landlord-cleared-wrong-apartment-article-1.1710111

The News decides to print one large photograph depicting one of this hapless dude's lost possessions. Whaddya think that possession might be? A wedding picture of his dead mother? That $10,000 Andy Warhol print he got as a graduation gift? His mint condition Spiderman debut comic book? No. It's this:
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The belongings that Nilay Shroff lost included a rare, collectable Mariano Rivera bobblehead doll he received at Yankee Stadium on September 24, 2013

[Benjamin Grimm]

I read that article in the print edition about a half hour ago, and I was feeling bad for him. (No mention of the Mariano bobblehead.)

Now, my sympathy has pretty much evaporated.