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The parade was of course sponsored by freecreditreport.com
The parade was of course sponsored by freecreditreport.com
Well, to be fair, their owner is a person suffering from Alzheimer's, as well.
Thankfully, though, NYC is the land of a thousand lawyers, so this shouldn't be that hard to track down and sue up. I did hear that when this report aired, a moan of pleasure came out of Andrew Cuomo's office.
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@GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn: This is actually a plan from Governor Paterson to collect money for state coffers. I sense a conspiracy.
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Okay, I guess I don't really understand how a ticker tape parade works. Who provides the confetti? Is it the team, the city of New York? The article really makes it sound like the people attending the parade were making and throwing their own confetti, if this is the case, what's the big deal? If I want to throw my 2005 tax returns at some baseball players and the city has waived the littering laws for the day then I'm only hurting myself. ... on the other hand I guess that some office worker could have just grabbed a stack of papers of his desk and threw them during the parade, at that point I would think we'd need to investigate the company that employed that office worker. I
@gparlett: It used to be the Department of Sanitation and the total weight of the tape thrown was important. A President got so much, a Pope, so much, personalities a bit less. It was carefully measured so that some bozo didn't more garbage thrown on him than he was entitled to. One of the biggest was John Glenn when he orbited the Earth. If you watch the movie \"The Right Stuff\" they reproduce the parade and it's pretty much the way it was.
@H3ion: Then the Department of Sanitation would come and clean it up. It's a bit more difficult with the new buildings where the windows don't open, but I guess you could always throw a chair through one or two.
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@gparlett: I believe the city contracts out to a company that makes the confetti. But then people in the buildings lining the parade are always going to \"make their own\", no matter how they do it.
You're always going to run into people dumb enough to throw documents out with personal information.
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@gparlett: It's called a \"ticker tape\" parade because traditionally, the left-over ticker tape was thrown out the windows. Ticker tape was what a ticker tape machine would print out the current stock prices on; it was basically a fancy telegraph. It probably hasn't been used in 30 years or so. So, no one has ticker tape, so stock brokerage statements are the next best thing!
@Taed: I didn't know that \"ticker tape parade\" was an actual parade. I always thought it was a metaphor...
@Taed: Okay, so irregardless, the Yankees were not making the confetti, and even if they were there is no way to prove what source all of confetti came from. There is no way to implicate the Yankees as part of this.
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@gparlett: No one said it was the Yankees' fault. The title of the article explicitly says \"Yankees Fans...\"
Would've been easy enough to write this article in an unbiased fashion, you know, like an actual writer. But it's more fashionable to show some serious Yankee hate instead.
\"disrespect for the law will trickle down to the fans.\"
Acting as though you've never done anything stupid. You might as well just say \"everybody in New York is dumb\" and pretend like it's fact.
Get off your high horse and your spectator sports jealousy and bitterness. This isn't the venue for it.
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@rhobite: Sure they do. Clearly anyone who thinks Jeter deserves any of his Gold Gloves has a good sense of humor.
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@Miraluka: My team hasn't won a championship since before there were communists, and I love me a good Cubbies joke.
The only thing worse than a sore loser is a sore winner.
@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): Actually, Miraluka sounds more like a whiny Mets fan (like me) rather than an arrogant Yankees fan. Between the Yanks and the Phillies, the Mets fans have been under a lot of stress this year. At least the Yanks win titles with the money they pay.
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@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): There have *always* been communists and they have always hated America and Jesus.
@MostlyHarmless: I would like to go back in time to 1908 and say to someone, \"I bet you a million dollars there'll be a black president of the United States before the Cubs win the World Series again!\"
EVERYONE would take that bet! I'd be super-rich!
I could also bet things like, \"That Model T thing is really going to catch on!\" \"The Boy Scouts will still be around in 100 years!\" and \"Radio's going to be huge!\"
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@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!):
You win the comment of the day with that one.
You earn your star every day, mama mcgee.
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@Miraluka: Some people love the Yankees. Some people hate the Yankees. Most people totally agree that the team is overblown with bought talent. Even non-sports fans can debate at length about how much money is sunk into that team. A team that treats itself that seriously and spends that much money like water deserves a little ribbing.
@Miraluka: I am seriously sick and tired of all the jokes on this website. Blogging isn't supposed to be fun. This is their job and they're treating it like a joke! Last week they made fun of Target's pricing errors, and this week they're making fun of the Yankees and their fans. WHEN WILL IT END?
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@squinko: I KNOW. It's almost as if it's not an actual news outlet. WTF? If this keeps up, I'm going to have to make my own news at home.
@subtlefrog: Soon we'll all be making our own news at home. Action News 5 at 11 o'clock: Pecan Pi is feeling sleepy.
My ratings aren't going to be very high past 11:30 pm, I suspect.
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@pecan 3.14159265: How can you claim your news is \"fair and balanced\" when all you do is spread fear about sleepiness?!?
@Jeremy82465: Well, I also feature at 7 am coffee talk hour and a 3 pm mid-afternoon snack hour. And I show that pecan-themed episode of Good Eats.
At last Friday's championship celebration parade, featuring World Series MVP Sean Carter (left)
When I read \"Sean Carter (left)\" I immediately looked to the left, like I would for a regular news article. Therefore, the raccoon is actually World Series MVP Sean Carter.
That said, no one can take responsibility for stupid people except the people themselves. How stupid do you actually have to be in order to toss sensitive documents as confetti? I mean, if you're that desperate to litter, at least run the papers through cross-cut shredders first!
Maybe that'll be the newest product to show up in the Yankees gift shop - cross-cut shredders with the Yankees logo.
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@pecan 3.14159265: yeah, I realized as soon as it posted that it would be read to mean the raccoon, and not the linked picture. Removed.
@Alex Chasick: Oh man. I ACTUALLY thought it was a joke on Sean Carter. I actually laughed out loud at that one. (And i dont even watch the sport or know the teams real well. I just get a good chuckle out of someone having the balls to call an MVP a raccoon publicly.)
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I immediately thought that too. Took me a minute to realize that the raccoon was not, in fact, Jay-Z.
@pecan 3.14159265: As much as I follow sports, that raccoon could be Sean Carter, World Series MVP. In fact, if he were, I might actually start watching next year.
@subtlefrog: Many Matsui can't even get his due for being MVP. Now it gets handed away to the first celebrity we see.
@Veeber: I'm an unapologetic Yankee fan (full disclosure). While Matsui is, and always has been, a beast... Every single Yankee fan I know watched game 2 and yelled \"Jay-Z has arrived!! The series can now officially start!!\" So yes, it was a series win in five games, with HOVA as the true MVP.
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I guess the Yankees' lack of previous championships makes the fans wacky when they finally do win one?
Wait, what's that? 26 times before this year? My bad.
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Next week we'll hear of an inverse correlation between Yankees World Series wins and federal indictments of white collar criminals due to \"disappearing\" documents.
Who is Sean Carter?
@Kogenta: Well, with the passing of the Equal Raccoon Act of 1965, raccoons can now become World Series MVPs just like everyone else.
@floraposte: Why does it matter, huh? Are you raccoonist? What if we had a raccoon in the White House? Would you deny him or her his clams?! WOULD YOU?!
/has had soda this afternoon.
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Why do people get so offended when a sports team is the butt of some jokes/jabs? Are you on the team? Do you own the team? Is anyone on the team actually from your city?
I'll admit that I enjoy sports and rooting my city's teams, but I could care less when someone tries to drag me into some stupid rivalry/argument about it.
Besides all that, it's fun to pick on the successful teams. Who's gona take any joy in making fun of the Clippers?
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@ben gardners boat: Does a day go by where I don't make fun of the Lion, Clippers or Nationals? No, I don't think that it does.
@ben gardners boat: \"Besides all that, it's fun to pick on the successful teams.\"
Note: this does not stop the entire state of Michigan from picking on the Lions. ;)
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3 words,
cross cut shredder.
Isn't it a federal offense to give out medical records, the name of the company should be on the documents, so then they should get fined for doing that.
And everyone who throw personal documents should get fined also.
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If I recall, this happened the last time the Yankees won the World Series back in 2000. For me, it's just another reason to hate the Yankees . . . GO SOX!!
All this reminds me that I have a missing MLB.com gift card...
@RandomHookup: It's in my apartment...and thus legally in my possession...
Unfortunately, I don't know where it is.
And I recently received a Braves jersey in cat size...strange.
Is anybody actually in charge of The Consumerist? While there may be a actual Consumerist story buried in here somewhere, what we got is worst kind of blogging, where innuendo and irrelevant information masquerades as reporting.
It is irrelevant to this story that George Steinbrenner was convicted of donating too much money to Nixon's campaign 35 years ago. He served his time, and has since been pardoned, and it has nothing to do with some unknown third parties who disposed of confidential information in an insecure manner.
It is irrelevant to this story how much the Yankees pay their players. Including this when it is clear that the Yankees were not responsible for the issue at hand serves only to attempt to degrade the Yankee organization for the action of others.
It is irrelevant to this story how much Yankee stadium cost to build. The story is not about Yankee stadium, or any action taken by the New York Yankees. Including this serves no purpose other than to again degrade the Yankee organization for the action of others.
Same for the design and politics of the new stadium. Nothing to do with the story at hand.
Personally, I am offended that the Consumers Union allowed this biased piece of crap to be published, and I intend to let them know directly.
Steinbrenner puts the money back into his team which is why he can afford to buy the tallent.
And where does that money come from? The fans.
So far that formula has been working pretty well, id say, as yankees have one of the largest fanbases in teamsports.
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@crimsonfury: When they're winning, anyway. They were having a tough time putting butts in the seats of that new stadium for a while, as I recall.
Having been a Yankee fan for longer than most of the posters on this site have been converting oxygen to carbon dioxide, I was happy as hell to see #27. That said, the people who threw files during the ticker tape parade are idiots. If there were law firms there (as I know there are) they at least could have thrown a few law books out the window. At least that wouldn't have contained personal information.
I do hope that someone investigates where those files came from and penalizes the dummies who did the throwing.
Although I do agree with MBD that this is not really a consumer issue. (But I'm glad the Yankees got mention. The losers don't appear on The Consumerist.)
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I disagree with commenters that this is not a story that should concern consumers. It can, and it should. Privacy breaches are all too common these days (e.g. this one) in spite of all such cases being totally preventable, with proper procedures and controls in place.
In this case the workers knew full well what they were throwing, but they threw it anyway. They were too caught up in the excitement, though, to care. And that simply is not a sufficient excuse. Time and again we hear about companies and government agencies failing to treat people's private and confidential information as private and confidential ... in spite of regulations and laws requiring them to do so.
As for the \"Yankees\" angle, that is superfluous to the story. That Big Daddy Steinbrenner was once a felon (he was pardoned, so he can't really be called one now) is also not relevant. But neither of these things means this story should not be of interest to consumers. It should, and we should be angry about it. That the story has a Yankees angle, and that this was done by what appear to be Yankees fans, does not mean that other Yankees fans should be defending this impermissible breach of privacy and condemning the report in its entirety.
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My favorite flavor of Haterade is Sour Grape. It tastes SO GOOD.
@Cameraman: Red Sox fans.