(fringe) NY: Was Your Identity in the Confetti?

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.wpix.com/news/local/wpix-confidential-confettii,0,5603178.story

What would the Yankees' 27th World Series win have been without a ticker 
tape parade? Well, for some people it would have meant not losing pay 
stubs, medical records, medical bills, and even the paperwork for an 
invention patent that were all exuberantly tossed as confetti down to the 
parade route below.

As thousands of revelers made their way up Broadway, careless office 
workers drunk on the moment gave their colleagues a good reason to fear 
identity theft. Within the discarded documents exclusively obtained by 
WPIX, were the medical records of Bronx resident and Yankee fan Tammy 
Sowells.

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