A Sydney man had a rather tragic start to his New Year’s Eve celebrations when he dropped his carton of beer on the street only seconds after the bottle shop closed.

A series of photos captured by an onlooker showed the man assessing the damage on Enmore Rd in Sydney’s inner west.

He was visibly upset after realising many of his beers couldn’t be saved.

'The more broken six packs he pulled out, the sadder he became,' Tayon McCafferty, who took the photos, told the Daily Mail.

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McCafferty was standing outside the Queen Victoria Hotel in Enmore when he noticed the man.

'He had bought a case and when he walked out of the bottle shop, they locked the door behind him,' he said.

The man was seen holding his head in his hands in utter defeat before picking up the smashed glass.

McCafferty decided to share the pictures with Reddit, and the online community quickly made his own New Year’s better.

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The pictures quickly attracted a flood of sympathy for the man, some described it as 'an Aussie tragedy'.

'Poor guy, I want to buy him a card or something,' one commenter said.

'This is the adult version of a kid licking an ice cream and then having it fall from the cone,' another noted.

Plenty of others said 'that's why you buy cans'.

NEW YEAR'S BAD LUCK