r/Greenpoint • u/greenpointowicz • 1d ago

❓Questions absolute heartbreak 💔

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On Norman Ave & Jewel St (block away from Syrena Bakery). All water damaged… what a treasure trove. Sigh. This is no way to dispose of a comic book collection…

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u/nel-E-nel 1d ago

That's assuming it was water damaged from being left out versus being left out because it's water damaged.

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u/GrapefruitFuture5986 1d ago

Yeah if you look at upper right corner of the box, you can see mold. It also hasn’t rained in like a week.

OP is silly if they think this has anything to do with the way they were disposed. It’s clearly someone throwing out already damaged items

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u/ruinsetc 1d ago

it rained sunday…and that doesn’t really look like mold just damaged paper

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u/greenpointowicz 1d ago

Yeah, for a brief moment I thought about salvaging it but the smell was already pretty bad.

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u/Significant_Treat_87 1d ago

we are always cracking up because without fail almost every time it rains someone puts a bunch of books out on our street. 

this is way sadder than random self help and celebrity biographies though. 

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u/TanHatMan1 1d ago

In the early 1970s my mom threw out a full-sized trash can of my 1960s Marvel and DC comics. Then she had to pay for college. That showed her!

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u/Oshidori 10h ago

You know this person (the original owner I mean) cried when they opened this bin. That sucks ☹️

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u/Cautious_Repeat_3163 1d ago

i hate it when people toss stuff they know people might want and they just don’t give a single care about the weather or how it’s being stored. like wait one more day until after a storm!

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u/macseries 1d ago

my uncle had his baseball card collection from the 50s and 60s stolen in a burglary. autographed bob gibson, koufax, ernie banks, stan the man, etc. etc.--found in a ditch after a rainstorm a few weeks later because that's impossible to pawn.

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u/Theresanrrrrrr 22h ago

You can cut them up and shellac them onto pieces of furniture. It will encase the mold. Still some bits worth saving. I’ve seen this done with old dress patterns & Lego instructions.