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John Minchillo / AP
A worker clears confetti from a sidewalk in Times Square after midnight on New Years Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013, in New York. With fireworks, concerts and celebrations from Hong Kong to New York, revelers welcome 2013 with hope for a better future after a year that thudded to a close with a disastrous storm, gun violence, and talk of economic turmoil from a looming fiscal cliff. This will be the first Times Square countdown in decades without Dick Clark, who died in April, and was honored with a tribute concert and his name printed on pieces of confetti.
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Trash after the New Year's eve night is seen on Jan. 1, 2013 in Duesseldorf, western Germany.
Martin Gerten / AFP - Getty Images
Trash after the New Year's eve night is seen on a street on Jan.1, 2013 in Duesseldorf, western Germany.
Cleanup crews arrived immediately after the ball drop to return the bustling center to its normal order, collecting an estimated 50 tons of trash. NBC's Kate Snow has more.
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I hope Cinderella can find her lost slipper. :)
So big deal. How much money did these city's make from the partiers. I'm sure they can cover the cost of the clean up. So why is this even NEWS. ps. (Union labor, holiday, double time, I'm sure there all hurting.)
You can dress 'em up, but you can't take 'em out!
Hahaha...only three comments?Lol I guess everybody is still in bed suffering the effects of a wild night!LOl
That's nothing compared to Mardi Gras
I can still smell Bourbon Street.
Combo of old booze, beer, vomit, urine and something else I have never been able to identify?
LOL Roc and i wanted to go there in a few weeks for Mardi Gras..
Mardi Gras. AWESOME, just dont step in the ally ways.
It doesn't take long for someone to comment about public workers's salaries. Everyone else's paychecks fall from the sky, theirs doesn't come from the rest of us.....right.
'scuse the typo....workers' salaries
Saying goodbye to 2010??? huh??? I do not know who wrote her telepromter, but we are missing a few years there
p clack - What's sad is it didn't even phase her. She didn't even blink. Hell I had to listen to it a second time because I only half listen to the crap most of them spew.. I don't believe she listened to herself.. LOL
I know I was quite amazed myself and had to hear it twice myself. Most news anchors would correct themselves, But not her Can you say MORON !!! I knew you could LOL
The first picture reminds me of a Sanford & Son episode. Lamont says, i want a job where i can use my head as well as my hands. Fred says they got one for you. They'll put a hat on your head and a broom in your hand. Loved that show. True comedy before uptight and politically correct garbage came along. Anyway. Happy New Year. Never did understand the mentality of celebrating another year of your life being over. Strange people.
Great Show, Grady was to good!
50 tons of trash... How sad that we just waste and waste and waste and no one even mentions or thinks of this after reading this article. Then on top of that most people were probably adults that left the trash how sad. If you want to lead by example or teach by example this is what we are teaching lol.
I don't think the clean up is the big deal...It's the amount of trash that we create to leave behind in the first place! We really do need to start thinking about what kind of impact we are making. Come on it's 2013! Lets stop treating our planet, our city, our nieghborhoods like trash cans! Take a dag back pack or bag with you, if you carried it in, you can carry it out!
The Germans had a better party!
Before 9/11 hit the USA, New Yorkers would assemble without the police to decide who would be allowed into Times Square. In past times, folks would bring booze and herbs and had a great time, today it looks like they are nothing more than zombies, duped to wave for the corporate sponsors who make them wear hats with their logos for advertisers on TV... Notice the difference in the pictures, NYC only has confetti... whereas Germany shows what a party looks like after it's over... Times Square lost it's soul.
You want to talk about trash and real news issues..? How about US trashing Pakistan with bombs dropped by remote control drones...Why don't WE see this in the news..?!
OcuppyMARINES
Law Enforcement is the 99%
Seek these two groups on Facebook...
Nice agenda you have there. Wear it with the ignorance it deserves.
Maybe if you stopped looking for it in an article about cleaning up after a party, you would find it.
I bet anyone that knows you, walks the other way when they see you. You seem to have a habit of dragging every discussion you participate in off topic.
You could be at work and a co worker could ask what you had for dinner last night and you probably chime in with some crap about a foreign country.
My girlfriends shoe, how did it get all the way to Germany? Guess its a small world after all... Wonder what she did with the other one?...jk
Leave it in Japan?
rrr-rrright on!!
and they complaint off no money
So is this the first time this has ever happened? I'll bet not.
how / why is this a news story ? the clean up from years past has never made the ews so what lck of any REAL news ????
when the money was rolling in last night no one seemed to care about clean up then .
and who was so drunk they ran around in icy cold weather 4 inches shorter on one side ?
It's amazing that ONE guy cleaned up everything by himself
Union!
that is some serious cleaning up every year but is a normal thing for the new years eve ball dropping.....Happy new years everyone...
I just stayed home and wacked off.
Did your ball drop?
Well, maybe the city themselves shouldn't litter so much with all the confetti they let loose. They are just as much to blame as every one else. More garbage cans maybe? Volunteers?