The Daily BuzzNYC man comes home to find his apartment accidentally cleared out
You’ve had a long day at work and you’re happy to finally make it home to your cozy apartment. But, when you enter, every thing you own is gone. Insta-panic.
27-year-old Nilay Shroff of New York City got the shock of his life when he experienced this, first hand. He returned home to his Upper East Side apartment to find it was completely empty.
Everything gone. His bed, clothes, furniture, pots, pans, passport, social security documents, credit cards, the list goes on. All gone.
“I literally had the clothes that I was wearing and nothing else,” Shroff said.
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Most importantly to him was a framed photograph of his mother who died when he was 13. The only things left in the apartment were Shroff’s PlayStation 3 and his flat screen TV.
I know what you’re thinking: What kind of burglar leaves those two very expensive items??
When police arrived they too, were dumbfounded.
“When the police came, they said they’d never seen anything like this,” Shroff told The New York Post, “because they said my TV and the PS3 would have been the first things gone, and a New York City robbery would not involve your bed being taken.”
The fact is, it wasn’t a burglar at all!
Shroff didn’t discover who the culprit was until the next day.
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His landlord informed him that there had been a ‘mistake’ — The resident in apartment 2B had moved out and a trash removal service hired by the building manager was hired to clean out that apartment. Only they didn’t clean out apartment 2B. They cleaned out apartment 2D, yes, Shroff’s apartment.
The worst part is, it’s not like the company could just get everything back and undo this whole mix up. They had already dropped everything off at the dump. By now, the contents of his apartment were probably crushed into small bits of nothing.
Shroff has refurnished his apartment, but it has taken him a few months. He is still yet to be paid from the management company, the landlord, and the contractor for their royal mix-up.
I smell a lawsuit … a $40, 000.00 lawsuit in fact! According to ABC, Shroff has filed the lawsuit to pay for everything that was wrongfully taken from him. There are some things he says, however, that simply cannot be replaced.
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