MTA (but not the strike)
I have been combing the web for a copy of the current MTA subway poster pimping the Lost Property Unit, to utterly no avail. (Looks like I'm just gonna have to take a picture, although I think photography on the subway now constitutes an act of treason against the United States.) An exhaustive search of the MTA website turns up, in fact, utterly no mention whatsoever of the Lost Property Unit. The only proof of its existence seems to be in those arresting new posters on the trains, which claim that "Lots of things get lost on the subway. Many of them turn up in the Lost Property Unit," or something to that effect.
According to the crapass sketches on the poster, the sorts of things that get lost on the subway include:
rattlesnakes
computer mice
yo-yo's
crutches
worms or maybe a piece of string
pull tabs (of the Five Alive-can variety, it would seem)
balls of yarn
tennis balls
false teeth
basketballs
necklaces
transistor radios
sunglasses
slide whistles/recorders/flutes/some sort of wind instrument
canes
keys
large, gaily-wrapped presents
condoms (unused)
credit cards
olde-timey wooden tops
change
boots
wooden legs (without boots)
boomerangs
piles of cash
violins in cases (although it could be a tommy gun, si vez algo, di algo)
dice
rulers
cupcakes
books
wallets (empty)
straw hats or UFO's
cars
pamphlets and tracts
2 pencils
empty tin cans, hobo-meal-over-the-open-fire-style
gloves
I draw two conclusions from this: 1, that the handicapped and elderly tend often to lose things of a personal and medical nature; and 2, that the Lost Property Unit is simply lousy with piles of cash and unmolested credit cards, just awaiting retrieval. Also 3, round things are easier to draw.
According to the crapass sketches on the poster, the sorts of things that get lost on the subway include:
rattlesnakes
computer mice
yo-yo's
crutches
worms or maybe a piece of string
pull tabs (of the Five Alive-can variety, it would seem)
balls of yarn
tennis balls
false teeth
basketballs
necklaces
transistor radios
sunglasses
slide whistles/recorders/flutes/some sort of wind instrument
canes
keys
large, gaily-wrapped presents
condoms (unused)
credit cards
olde-timey wooden tops
change
boots
wooden legs (without boots)
boomerangs
piles of cash
violins in cases (although it could be a tommy gun, si vez algo, di algo)
dice
rulers
cupcakes
books
wallets (empty)
straw hats or UFO's
cars
pamphlets and tracts
2 pencils
empty tin cans, hobo-meal-over-the-open-fire-style
gloves
I draw two conclusions from this: 1, that the handicapped and elderly tend often to lose things of a personal and medical nature; and 2, that the Lost Property Unit is simply lousy with piles of cash and unmolested credit cards, just awaiting retrieval. Also 3, round things are easier to draw.