Gothamist: Razors in Muffin Give NYU Student a Close Shave

sonyactivision

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:18:08 -0500

I urge all New Yorkers to leave "NYU muffins" all over the place in Lower Manhattan. Sooner or later, we'll get a 'hit'.

Mott the Hoople

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:24:31 -0500

yeah, you people are right, how silly. kinda like when you harrass the wait and/or kitchen staff at your new trendy find for the week and brush aside the thought, i wonder if they'll rub their balls all over the stuffed quail because i'm such a prick?? yes i will.

abster3

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:03:57 -0500

This is the first thing I thought of when I read this story- http://youtube.com/watch?v=1tcR19y7GPM

rtd2101

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:09:48 -0500

The blame here goes to the person WHO PUT A FUCKING RAZOR BLADE in a food item and left it sitting around. I'm sorry, I know we all on Gothamist love any opportunity to make fun of others we deem less worthy of living here in New York, especially rich college kids. But c'mon. If I put a razor blade in a muffin for some sort of class demonstration, it's my responsibility to make sure I throw it away. And no, I probably wouldn't have eaten that muffin, but I don't think it's out of this world for someone to have eaten it. It's not like it was lying on some sidewalk on the Bowery for God's sake.

jackdonaghy

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:56:55 -0500

I agree with a couple of the commentators that it's reasonable to think that the muffin was a leftover snack from the previous class. Now, if it was the only muffin left, I might have been hesitant to eat it. At least the razor was part of a presentation, not a creepy random act like the early 1980s when our parents had to inspect all Halloween candy b/c freaks were putting pins and razors in candy bars.

jaja007

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:52:57 -0500

Things white people like. Leftover, blatantly adulterated baked goods. I guess it's still smarter than standing on that long ass line at Magnolia for a cupcake..

Ronkonkoma Ondinnonk

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:46:23 -0500

Here in the mechanical art studio of the big advertising agency, we dispose of our daily blades in an old coffee tin. The muffin idea is far more creative, if more crumbly...

JacqueMehoff

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:40:55 -0500

there's always a leftover 6ft hero left in those NYU classrooms. I think that's where their tuition goes. And, I went in there as a guest.

EastRiver

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:36:21 -0500

OK, come on. Who here hasn't eaten leftover donuts or sandwiches or something they found in their lunchroom at work? I haven't. Unless someone offers up their leftovers I would assume that food left in the lunchroom is days old and thus unpalatable or unsafe or else someone recently left it there and may want it later thus taking it would be stealing.

robingee

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:02:54 -0500

Well, the razor blade muffin was pretty stupid to begin with, that's true.

Snoopy

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:00:28 -0500

If he would have eaten the muffin properly, with a knife and fork, he would have discovered the razors. I guess they don't teach proper manners at NYU.

Spiny

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:56:46 -0500

Yeah...I don't really see the big deal. I go to college, and occasionally, when I enter a classroom, the previous class has just finished eating cookies or brownies, and they leave the leftovers behind for the next class to finish off. This kid's not an idiot. Getting dibs on the the previous class's leftovers if you get to class early enough is a regular occurrence. To be fair, though, usually when you enter the room, the professor from the previous class is just on the way out, and offers up the baked goods. It's really no different than walking into a conference room in your workplace and helping yourself to the bagels and pastries left over from the last meeting. The only real stupidity I see here is leaving a classroom and forgetting to throw away muffins full of razor blades. Or putting razor blades in a muffin in the first place.

AnonEMouse

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:50:21 -0500

what a great way to pay the $50K tuition you need to attend NYU: sue after "finding" muffins left over from a previous class full of razor blades... now why didn't I think of that?

beezbokid

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:37:14 -0500

who decided to make this a news story? Did the kid who was dumb enough to eat a random muffin then decide to tell gothamist about it?

Colochita

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:23:21 -0500

Chris, I would like to peek inside your mind for a moment just to see how you are picturing “cushy private” NYU. Are there oriental rugs and discreet but watchful-eyed butlers? I went to NYU and, like any college, it’s full of idiot kids who I might or might not want handling my baked goods. There’s quite a stretch between having crumbs screened for toxins and simply choosing not to eat abandoned, unwrapped foods of undetermined provenance, whether you find it at a cushy private school or some city school teaming with hoi polloi. The kid already got a break – he bit into a muffin full of razor blades and was lucky enough not to get hurt.

JenChungsBra

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:19:33 -0500

He can use the razor blades to slash his wrists when next semester's tuition bill comes due.

zodak

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:17:25 -0500

hey, someone left free gum under the desk!!! score!

JMH

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:17:03 -0500

OK, come on. Who here hasn't eaten leftover donuts or sandwiches or something they found in their lunchroom at work? This was a classroom, it's not like he was eating food he found lying on the sidewalk.

JRod5417

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:13:04 -0500

Maybe he had a serious case of the munchies. Pot smoke does mysterious things to one's thought process. Other than that, the kid is an idiot.

bklynd

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:08:52 -0500

Well, in his defense, you might imagine it was left over from part of some end-of-semester event that had food. There were supposedly four muffins sitting around, and scrounging from other people's spreads is indeed an essential college experience. I'm more concerned about the class. What was this supposed to demonstrate? "Ideas of absurdism and randomness?" Hope that student feels like shit now.

drewo

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:51:49 -0500

Oooo!! Floorpie!!

cwbuecheler

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:43:19 -0500

I'm not assuming the kid's an idiot or anything the same some folks here are - college kids do dumb stuff, it's a part of being a college kid, and I did my share of dumb stuff at that age. I just thought it was funny that he and his friends chose to eat some random muffins they found lying around. I mean ... at the very least, I'd assume they belonged to someone. I'm glad he didn't get hurt. Lucky dude.

neckbeard

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:41:00 -0500

chris i think you're missing the point.

CR

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:40:20 -0500

NYU students pay way too much money in tuition to have to be exposed to art. Cooper Union, which is free, is for poor artists - or at least kids who purposely dress like peasants.

nivek

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:39:46 -0500

Tuition at work.

chris

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:34:32 -0500

If you found a rather delicious looking muffin - in your cushy private school - you'd thoroughly pick it apart to make sure it didn't have razorblades in it? Would you then have all the crumbs screened for potential toxins? Give the kid a break. He found a muffin, he ate a muffin... probably rather carefully given he wasn't injured by the razorblades stuffed in it.

robingee

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:30:15 -0500

Next this kid will eat some yummy looking rat poison he "found" in a corner of a basement.

acrocksyo

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:28:40 -0500

Uh yeah can someone explain to me why this kid was eating random muffins lying around a classroom at NYU. He deserved to eat a muffin filled with razor blades, retard!

tien mao

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:28:11 -0500

yikes! but who the hell eats found food without giving it a thorough inspection??

turkishjade

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:21:59 -0500

If only getting rid of Freegans were this easy.

matthewer

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:16:46 -0500

This kid is an idiot. How did he get into NYU? He just ate a random Muffin he found? Makes total sense...

amsci

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:16:15 -0500

Beat me to it, cwbuecheler. WTF.

cwbuecheler

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:00:19 -0500

You know what lesson I learned when I was like ... two? Don't eat random food that you find lying around and don't know where it came from.