A Subway Missing / Reward Poster
Posted by beehive on 26 Apr 2007 at 01:47 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Last night when I was on the R train going home, I looked up and saw this Missing / Reward poster behind the ad banner plastic. It was tilted to the side, and I still read it, found it so funny that I had to spend an extra 10 seconds at the last stop to get it out for my keeps.
If you can’t read it in the picture, this is the direct quote with exception to the full phone number listed:
“Have you seen a cat like this? (Only with worn off whiskers) Lost on Uptown R Train on 04/17/2007 please call 718-447- [redacted].
The return of Amber the cat is very important to us!! Reward!â€
It’s a stuffed animal that one would win at a county fair! I love it.
I took the poster assuming that it was some odd social experiment to see who would call the number, and when, but now I’m thinking about how one of my nephews can’t go anywhere without his “Duckyâ€, and that if he were to lose this duck, all hell would break loose, causing my sister to mow down a crowd of people at the chance to get another one of the exact same ducks, let alone flood the entire TriState area with wanted posters, and news coverage of the missing duck.
So, maybe, just maybe this is for real. In either case, I love this poster, and it made my commute last night a great one.
long story short a freinds father left a bag of my stuff on the LIRR (the long story being why he had my stuff) anyways… in it was about $800 of valuable (a pricey pair of jeans, my ipod, a digi camera, and all my make-up not to mention clothes of course) but the most (un) VALUABLE thing of all was my blanky that i recieved at birth that up until then I had never been without. I was devistated. I checked the lost and found at Penn everyday for a month and even now (over a year later) I still stop in every once in a while. If you took the $800 worth of stuff and put it in one pile and my blanky in another… and told me to pick… without hesitation i would have picked my blanky. Shed a tear… I know he’s out there somewhere… I feel for this lost kitty cat, I can only imagine how scared blanky is out there without me.
~Irish
Yeah, what is the person who lost that cat supposed to do now?? You took the sign- nobody can call the number
At first I thought it was really funny because I thought it was going to be that they’d lost a real cat who somehow resembled this stuffed one.
Make a photocopy and put it back!
Irish…I’d like to hear the long story longer version of these events, and it’s stories like this one that I keep my childhood stuffed bear in a plastic bag in the closet - I wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to her.
Meg…I do believe that the person who put up that sign is to remain hopeless, only in a Police Academy 6 sort of way.