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1-800-Got Junk? worker Matt Comuzie surrounded by some of his finds at a recent job.

When 1-800-Got Junk? driver Matt Comuzie, 23, was assigned the Nassau route recently, he received an unexpected surprise while cleaning out a Levittown home.

Stacked from floor to ceiling in a room were newspapers and magazines dating from 1920 to 2007, all neatly arranged by date. The headlines ranged from John F. Kennedy's assassination to the first man landing on the moon.

The man who had the collection passed away and his wife hired the rubbish removal company 1-800-Got Junk? She has since been moved into a nursing home. Comuzie's job was to clean out the room and dispose of its contents.

"It was a normal basement cleanout and it was a mess, but to my surprise there was Beatle stuff everywhere," the avid Beatles fan said. "I was in heaven. There was even an original board game called Flip your Wig, which is quite fun to play, even for it being over 30 years old."

He went through every single Newsday paper and now owns the John Lennon's murder and George Harrison's death covers.

"I also found Life magazines dating back many years," he added. "Like a crazed fan, I went through everyone of those until I found one of the Beatles and one of Paul McCartney when he left the Beatles."

He ended up removing five truck loads of stuff.

Comuzie said he thinks it was fate that he ended up doing that job because he normally works the Suffolk route, but one of the Nassau route workers called in sick.

"I am no longer mad at him for calling in sick," he quipped.

Comuzie lives in an apartment in Garden City that is covered wall-to-wall with Beatles stuff. He also has six Beatles tattoos, and about 20 collectible T-shirts.

"I also have not gone one day in five years without listening to at least one Beatles song," he added. "Any worker who works on the trucks with me any day knows they have a 1800 Got Junk Beatle mania day ahead of them."


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