Nightmare on Richview Road
So I was on the TTC website, looking up directions to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, when I noticed and clicked on the "Lost Articles" link. I was just checking to see what the hours were, because one of the things that occurred to me on the weekend was that someone might have grabbed my bag, jumped on the subway (which is rightby my store) and gone through my stuff/dumped it on the train. I thought there was a very small and remote possibility that it might end up in the TTC Lost and Found, and that it might be worth looking into.
Apparently, after 45 days, they put up your stuff on eBay.
This in itself isn't really weird, and I guess they use the money for, you know, running the TTC and whatever. And even the listings aren't that strange, except for stuff like 48 Packs of Assorted Sugar Free Gum where the incredibly creative marketing blurb underneath encourages you to "enjoy the great taste, or a great buy for resale".
No, the thing that's really weird is this disembodied hand that seems to appear in a lot of the pictures. I'm scrolling through the listings and remarking to Stephen that people must leave the craziest things on the subway when he looks over my shoulder and is all, "What's that hand?"
Upon further inspection and with a growing sense of unease, we noticed that they put the hand in almost every listing.
Like here:
And here:
Here it is again:
And with the gum:
Up until we noticed this, we were just kind of joking mildly about how we could probably do all of this year's Christmas shopping with this handy new discovery. Once we came across the hand, though, it became a deadly game of cat and mouse (hint: we were the mice).
Try it. Click on the different items and the hand will pop up and freak you out time and time again.
(This is probably one of those things that is only funny to me)
Apparently, after 45 days, they put up your stuff on eBay.
This in itself isn't really weird, and I guess they use the money for, you know, running the TTC and whatever. And even the listings aren't that strange, except for stuff like 48 Packs of Assorted Sugar Free Gum where the incredibly creative marketing blurb underneath encourages you to "enjoy the great taste, or a great buy for resale".
No, the thing that's really weird is this disembodied hand that seems to appear in a lot of the pictures. I'm scrolling through the listings and remarking to Stephen that people must leave the craziest things on the subway when he looks over my shoulder and is all, "What's that hand?"
Upon further inspection and with a growing sense of unease, we noticed that they put the hand in almost every listing.
Like here:
And here:
Here it is again:
And with the gum:
Up until we noticed this, we were just kind of joking mildly about how we could probably do all of this year's Christmas shopping with this handy new discovery. Once we came across the hand, though, it became a deadly game of cat and mouse (hint: we were the mice).
Try it. Click on the different items and the hand will pop up and freak you out time and time again.
(This is probably one of those things that is only funny to me)