Fox News reports on a public-relations stunt conducted in Times Square where people were invited to shred or demolish with a sledge hammer their bad memories from 2007.

Apparently there are a lot of people who needed to be embarrassed publicly before they could face the new year. But the most pathetic of them all was Joe Costarella of Staten Island who took the opportunity to demolish a tall garbage can from his kitchen with an opening too narrow to scrape his plate. Before this, could you have imagined someone carrying a tall garbage can from Staten Island to Manhattan to destroy it so he could get a new one? Don't you think placing it beside the road for pick-up and stomping on it a couple of times would suffice for most people?

Perhaps he got the idea from the commercials running on TV that show people dramatically destroying their old trucks so they can get a new one. I came up with an apparently very clever idea years ago; I sell the old truck and use the money on the purchase of a new one.

Since I'm off the subject now, why do the commercials showing people driving with booze sloshing around in their cars imply that they have been drinking? It seems to imply the opposite to me.

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