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John Jones

John Jones displays his stock of used MetroCards. (Credit:CBS2)

Homeless Man Makes More Than $20,000 Re-Selling Discarded MetroCards

A straphanger in the Bronx claims that other riders’ discarded MetroCards are his own personal property. John Jones said that he regularly finds cards with balances and that he has made a practice of re-selling them.

2012/01/10

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