Apr 1 2009Own A Plastic Box Of NYC Trash For $50
Nope, not April Fools either. Real boxes of "hand-picked" trash from the streets of New York City are available for $50 from greedy garbage tycoon Justin Gignac. You can also get limited edition boxes from Yankee Stadium or New Year's Eve for $100.
I sell garbage. I scour New York City streets picking up trash. After filling bags with subway passes, Broadway tickets, and other NYC junk, I carefully arrange plastic cubes full of the stuff. Each box is unique and won't leak or smell. The cubes are then signed, numbered, and dated, making them perfect for anyone wo wants their own piece of the NYC landscape.
Apparently Justin has already sold over 700 cubes in over 41 states and 19 countries. So, somebody start selling them for $10, and maybe I'll buy one. People buying trash off the streets of New York City, that is just amazing. Well, like the saying goes, "one man's trash is another man's free needle". I'm gonna try shooting glue!
Hit the jump for a close-up of a cube.
Product Site
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NYC Garbage for SALE [noquedanblogs]
Thanks to duan, who's selling LA trash for $25.
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Reader Comments
1. Me - April 1, 2009 2:16 PM
I would'nt even spend 25 dollar on it!
2. Timbo - April 1, 2009 2:21 PM
Gross...
you can have my trash for free....
3. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 1, 2009 2:21 PM
Wow... Lame...
@LSD - I missed that you were looking for a place to say - everything ok? Glad you found a spot!
4. naas - April 1, 2009 2:22 PM
why
5. gizmoduck - April 1, 2009 2:23 PM
does it come with Aids?
6. blech - April 1, 2009 2:23 PM
Do you get to pick out your box o' trash or does he just send you one at random?
7. Mr. Man - April 1, 2009 2:24 PM
like the saying goes " You can't sell a dog turd to a mail man, but you can sure sell a burrito to a china man."
8. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 1, 2009 2:25 PM
Picture a walking vendor at Yankee Stadium"
"Get your hand picked box O' used condoms, HIV infected needles and vomit here!" "C'mon man, you look like you could use some needles!"
9. Michael - April 1, 2009 2:28 PM
"Get your hand picked box O' used condoms, HIV infected needles and vomit here!" "C'mon man, you look like you could use some needles!"
You have very curious notions about what people put in NYC trash cans.
10. leslie - April 1, 2009 2:32 PM
This might be worth it, I've lost tons of valuable things in the NYC streets and gutters...my purse, cellphone, panties...you name it.
11. 24bit-whore - April 1, 2009 2:34 PM
I saw these last week & actually ordered one just to see what would show up. (I had $50 to burn so wtf) A homeless man delivered the thing today but it was empty....
*boom tssss
12. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 1, 2009 2:36 PM
@9 - Nah, I just stopped by your mom's house yesterday. (She also let me recycle this joke from 1986)
13. Caleb - April 1, 2009 2:38 PM
So this guy's already made an easy 12 grand for picking up trash in NYC? Wow. Anybody will be anything these days.
14. Angel Mass - April 1, 2009 2:42 PM
Finally a viable solution for the economical crisis
Emergency stimulus package, yeah right!
15. the black penny - April 1, 2009 2:53 PM
why yes.
i just threw out mu trash
now your selling it back to me..
sure.
16. JJtoob - April 1, 2009 2:57 PM
How much for the ones with credit card statements and company secrets?
17. WHO DEY - April 1, 2009 2:59 PM
If he makes a dollar, he is a genius. And yes, I agree it is stupid. And I would not buy it. but for parents who don't know their kids or family members you don't know anything they like, but they have been to NYC and they think it's funny.
Ahhh family and apathy
18. Darth - April 1, 2009 3:08 PM
I sell these for 1 Darth cent! The sales starts now! (No april fool's joke)
19. Gando - April 1, 2009 3:09 PM
It makes garbage look very colorful!
20. Watch - April 1, 2009 3:40 PM
disgusting. if you really want that, just walk around NYC with an acrylic box and put street litter in it.
21. catch22 - April 1, 2009 3:41 PM
nothing like a used condom and hypo being used as a paperweight at the office...
though i suppoose if you work in sanitation this would be a novelty
22. Daisy - April 1, 2009 3:41 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie NEver BAck down where the mafia was getting rid of toxic waste by topping off the gas tanks of NYC taxicabs with the liquified waste.
23. dubba - April 1, 2009 3:42 PM
how the hell did this get through customs????
24. LSDiesel - April 1, 2009 3:47 PM
@3, Thank you! Everything is well and getting better.
This post made my day. I think I'm going to start selling used condoms of celebrities.
25. LSDiesel - April 1, 2009 3:48 PM
@21, oops. Sorry, didn't see you already did the 'used condom' bit.
Great minds think alike!
26. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 1, 2009 4:21 PM
25 & 21- Pssh - see comment #8... copy cats... Ok, I'm done being an asshat one this one.
27. CrakHoreDorothy - April 1, 2009 4:43 PM
NYC Landscape? More like landfill....
28. dubba - April 1, 2009 5:09 PM
im mad because i didnt think of it first
29. RY - April 1, 2009 5:20 PM
The "items" inside look too clean to be New York City trash.
30. redgryphen - April 1, 2009 5:37 PM
I love how when this guy started 3 years ago he was selling them for $10 each but now that he's getting all this attention he jacked the prices up 500% to $50 each.
I guess one person's trash really is another person's treasure.
Anyone want Oakland or San Francisco trash? Selling it for $25. That's right folks! Half the price of New York trash!
31. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - April 1, 2009 6:36 PM
I think I see Thumperchica's vibrator receipt in one of them!
:p I kid because I care :-*
32. Ollie - April 1, 2009 9:41 PM
Anybody else think this is a complete rip off of Andy Warhol's garbage sculpture?
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34. gattasorniona - April 2, 2009 8:54 AM
I think I'll buy 2 boxes !
35. aaron - April 2, 2009 10:12 AM
it bothers me that people buy these. especially for $50. i'm gonna go break stuff now.
http://newschoololdschool.com
36. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 2, 2009 12:02 PM
31- And THAT is why I buy online... Using YOUR credit card... hehehe!
37. naas - April 11, 2009 12:12 PM
Oh wow, $50 cube box!!! I'll buy one and throw away the garbage inside it...
38. Jade - April 19, 2009 3:51 PM
To Be Honest You Have Got To Be Silly To Buy One Of These Trash Boxes...
You Could Go To The Streets Of NY Yourself And pick Up Rubbish From The Streets...But No One Would Do That. The Rubbish Or Litter Has Been Littered For No Apparant Reason Except That Person Cant Be Bothered To Put It In A Bin...Silly Really?
39. trash it man - May 5, 2009 1:58 PM
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40. dimola bros garbage removal new york city - May 5, 2009 2:01 PM
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41. latoya siratana - September 13, 2009 7:02 PM
i like this.
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44. vinny griffo - January 17, 2010 9:13 AM
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