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NEW YORK — In an event that organizers hope will become a New Year’s tradition, New Yorkers and tourists were invited to bring bad memories from 2008 to Times Square on Sunday and feed them into an industrial-strength shredder.
“This is the perfect way to move on from a bad year, from a bad experience,” said Kathryn Bonn of New York City, who shredded a printout of her ex-boyfriend’s e-mail breaking up with her.
City resident Jay Ballesteros won a $250 prize at the second annual “Good Riddance Day” for the most creative object to be shredded: a sock representing all the socks that emerge from the laundry without their mates.
