Macy's parade: 'Shredded police papers in confetti'

[Gerald]

Some confetti at the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday in New York appears to have been made out of confidential police documents, a US media report says.

The documents, shredded but legible, belonged to the Nassau County Police Department, New York station WPIX says.

They included sensitive data such as social security numbers and banking information for police employees.

They were shredded horizontally, not vertically, leaving text visible.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20487235

Crime record?

Note: 25 November 2012 Last updated at 15:20 GMT

[vienna]

This reminded me of an incident here in Los Angeles a few decades ago, in the late 70's. The city's central financial and banking district was along an area of a few blocks on Spring Street in downtown. All the bank headquarters and stock brokerages, including the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, had buildings and offices all along the street. The buildings were rather old and had windows that opened, unlike today's modern buildings. It was the custom, on the last business day of the year, to throw out the current year's desk and wall calendar pages, along with other assorted paper, from the windows at noon as a sort of "end of the year" celebration. One year, a very large and prominent brokerage had transferred all its contact information from index and rolodex cards to an in-house master computer system. On the last day of the year, some employees decided to include these "waste" items in the paper blizzard they were going to toss out the windows and off the roof. Unfortunately, they forgot the cards still had the contact and account information for the clients. Brokers from competeing houses found the cards on the sidewalk and started to scoop them up hoping to get business lead information. The word got back to the house that has dumped the cards and the management immediately ordered all available employees to get out on the sidewalk and try to recover as many of the cards and data as possible. I still recall the sight of the large group of Brooks Brothers suited brokers, on hands and knees on the sidewalk, desperately sifting through all the paper, feverishly trying to keep their jobs...

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[kraznyi_oktjabr]

@Vendor, I don't see a link...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

@Vendor, I don't see a link...

Now there's a surprise

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Now there's a surprise

Lazy me expected to get this little link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20487235


Picture directs to ImageShack should it do something else?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

Lazy me expected to get this little link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20487235


Picture directs to ImageShack should it do something else?

Best ask that of him but as far as I am aware most of his cut and pastes come from the BBC website.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

@Vendor, I don't see a link...

Sorry,I "forgot" it is best that you buy a lot, so you win money, for the chance as I forget to attach a link, is extremely small, so therefore luck is on your side now,

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Best ask that of him but as far as I am aware most of his cut and pastes come from the BBC website.

True,you have won a pepper cake

[Jimbuna]

Much prefer a beer.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Much prefer a beer.

Pepper beer,

[Jimbuna]

Real beer

[Gerald]

[Jimbuna]

That's the one...found it on draught in Houston back in 2008 and Privateer, TarJak and Kpt Lehmann had a sip...it hadn't travelled well.

[Gerald]

But it is available to you where you are staying,

[Jimbuna]

My dear fellow....Newcastle Brown Ale is only brewed in Yorkshire these days but Newcastle will always be known as its home the world over.