According to a recent Newsday article, a homeless man discovered "documents purported to be blueprints for the Freedom Tower" -- you know, that memorial thing that they finally came up with to build on the site of the World Trade Center, after about a thousand different proposals had been reviewed? And of course, this awkward turn of events "has prompted an internal investigation" -- which usually means that some schmo named Al, who nobody likes anyway, will be demoted and placed on leave without pay for a few days. Hey, this is New York, waddaya talkin'? There's an entire agency dedicated to conducting "internal investigations". Its motto -- inscribed on the official agency seal -- is "The problem has been resolved and it will not occur again."
Now, this is one of those stories that raises more questions than it answers. Number one, why do you throw stuff like that in the ordinary trash, along with pizza crusts and Dunkin' Donuts cups? But also, why are these blueprints "sensitive"? Why is their exposure a "security breach"? And also, if the guy who found them is really homeless, how did anyone find out? What did he do, turn over a new leaf and report the find to the nearest Department of Sanitation street sweeper? I guess the stock answer, "only in New York", would suffice for most of these questions.
But I have to admit that my favorite line in the article is "... could lose their contract to build the 1,776 story tower." Yes, you read it right, that's 1776 _stories_, not feet. Oh, why pick on them for making a simple typo, you say. But it's not a typo! The contractor is Halliburton, and we know how full of stories they are.
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