A Brief Note from NAL publisher Doug Draper
A sorry note for our Greater Niagara Region neighbours in Buffalo, New York.
This sign courtesy of New Jersey friend Claudia Farbe
It’s bad enough Buffalo already has an infamous reputation internationally as a place where the winter monster dumps just about as much snow in the world as it does in the North and South Poles and Siberia combined. Now this.
While my wife Mary and I were on Cape Cod, Massachusetts late this November for a Thanksgiving gathering with some of our American friends, one member of the group – Claudia Farber from New Jersey – showed us a photo of a sign she took at the entrance to a popular store on the Cape.
The sign at the Birdwatcher’s General Store in the Town of Orleans on the Cape was an obvious reference to a snow storm this past November that dumped so much snow in the Buffalo area, a state of emergency was declared, and it read as follows; ‘Notice – All shoplifters will be arrested and taken to Buffalo.’
Maybe the author of the sign should go to Buffalo where he or she may very well discover that there are far greater things happening, in a positive way in Buffalo, than snowfall.
Just another word on that major dump of snow this past November, most of it fell on towns around the city proper. In fact, according to U.S. National Weather Service statistics, Erie Pennsylvania and Grand Rapids, Michigan were buried in more snow during the same period than the City of Buffalo.
Niagara At Large invites all of our friends and readers to share an image of a sign they feel depicts something about our interesteing and crazy times. You can email a jpeg image to drapers@vaxxine.com .
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I would call the author a “Bird Brain” but it would be an insult to the birds. Don’t allow the author the opportunity to appreciate Buffalo keep him/her in the Birdwatcher’s General Store.
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I was impacted in a different way by this message. I saw it as a positive message for the image of Buffalo, ie. that they not only know how to handle shoplifters, but their resilience to overcome obstacles such as excessive snow is to their absolute credit. Shoplifters would be more appropriately accommodated, while gaining an understanding of community spirit. Better than being sent to the free-for-all of Ferguson, Missouri.
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