ANIMAL » Buffalo

Biggest Heroin Bust Ever and It’s Only 7 Kilos?

Bucky Turco — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:38:57 +0000

I no expert and don’t know how they roll in Buffalo, but with the rising popularity of heroin all across New York—Long Island stand up—a recent seizure of seven kilograms doesn’t seem like such a large amount for the state’s second most populous city. But according to authorities and the news, it’s the biggest bust ever. Weak. Seriously, could any one place in NY be any more depressing?

New York Is a Decaying Death Spiral of Doom, Says Paladino

Lauri Apple — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:29:10 +0000

Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino has released a new teevee ad in which he doesn’t shove or threaten anyone and, all things considered, actually appears “composed,” as the New York Times puts it.

Paladino talks about the top two issues on voters’ minds: why he was justified in scuffling with the New York Post‘s Fred Dicker, and Democratic challenger Andrew Cuomo’s “legendary” prowess. In creating the ad, the Times reports, Paladino remained “in seclusion in his Buffalo home, taking counsel from numerous Republican officials and pondering what he would say.”

He should have pondered more.

About the Dicker incident, Paladino says he got angry, in part, because he’s a “builder, not a politician.” He also challenges Cuomo to “debate like a man,” which is SEXIST. (Cuomo agreed to a debate just before Paladino released his ad, rendering moot a good portion of it.)

For political reasons, the best part is when Paladino talks shit about the Assembly—whose support he’d need to get anything done, ever, if he were to become governor—and how they are creating wholesale DOOM:

“Our state is in a death spiral,” Mr. Paladino said in the advertisement, filmed near his office in Buffalo. “We pay the highest taxes in the country. Spending and debt are widely out of control, and many in our Legislature are crooks. Our state is hemorrhaging jobs; our young people move as soon as they graduate. Upstate and downstate are dying.”

If you’re still around/haven’t left for Detroit or some other, more thriving place, here’s the video:

Speaking of Paladino and cinema, does anyone know if he is related to that other “feisty” Republican angerbear from Buffalo, Vincent Gallo? They seem to have similar dispositions (probably from all that spicy wing sauce) and would probably make good friends.

Parting Shot: Mass Slaughter

Will Sherman — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:00:02 +0000

A buffalo is about to get beheaded as part of a mass sacrifice of more than 200,000 animals at Gadhimai temple in Nepal. |AP|

Photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

Buffalo Police Put A Cap On New Era Theft

Will Sherman — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:49:43 +0000

After 11 months of investigation, upstate police have made an arrest for the $66,000 worth of New Era hats stolen from the hat company’s Buffalo factory last August. Four men, between the ages of 22 and 26, have each been charged with six counts of burglary and grand larceny for stealing 1,800 baseball caps that they fenced to area shops for pennies on the dollar. More than 1,400 of the hats, including bedazzled baseball caps, were recovered as evidence, after which they’ll likely be resold at their original exorbitant prices. |WIVB|