The Senator

Nice try yourself, but WTF language are you speaking? The Kanes arrest is also "a consequence of the incident", no?

(Links provided) Drive down the crooked part of Lombard Street ("The 'Crookedest' Street in the World") - or take the Hyde Street cable car to the top of Lombard and stroll downhill to North Beach - on the way, be sure to light a candle at The Senator's old house (#1025 Lombard). In North Beach - stop at the North Star (SF Bills Backers Bar). Have a focaccia sandwich at Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store. Stop in at City Lights Books and Vesuvio's - the birthplace of the beatnik movement. Pier 23 has a nice Sunday afternoon happy hour. Irish Coffee at The Buena Vista Cafe is a must, as are drinks at The Dirty Martini. BTW- North Beach/Grant & Green St. area has a bunch of great blues bars. In the Union Square area, drinks at the Top of the Mark provide a great vista - on a clear day, that is. Drinks in the lobby bar of the Westin St. Francis - where they literally used to wash all their coins so they wouldn't soil the ladies white gloves - are a pleasant take, or walk a few doors down and around the block to Lefty O-Doul's or Gold Dust Lounge. I think the Beach Chalet (microbrewery/resaurant) at the edge of Golden Gate Park is still open, and the Cliff House and Sutro Baths ruins are an interesting interesting bit of EssEff history. A stroll from Ocean Beach thru GG Park will land you around the Panhandle and Haight Street - truly a vestige of an era-gone-by. If you're at all adventurous, try the Noc Noc Club - just be mindful of your surroundings at night. Another interesting place in The Haight is the Persian Aub Zam Zam, where the bartender used to throw you out if he didn't like your looks, attitude, or you ordered something that took too much work to mix... link (Don't worry, he's dead now.) If you are really, really daring, do what the natives do... Bondage-A-Go-Go (I'd avoid the Castro neighborhood and any bars named Uranus, Glory Hole, End Up, The White Swallow, etc.) Of course, you could just be boring and do the traditional stuff, which is great too - Alcatraz, Fisherman's Wharf, Ghiradelli Square, Union Square, the cable cars, steak dinner at Alfred's, lunch at Tadich Grill, etc. Pier 39 and the barking sea lions are a fun sight. I do highly recommend a ferry to Tiburon (more than Sausalito) - stop at Guayma's for some mexican food on the water overlooking the SF skyline (the ferry drops you right at the restaurant),l then head to Sam's Anchor Cafe for 'refreshments'. Pebble Beach/Monterey is beautiful, but about a 2-hour ride. Going to wine country at all? (That'll require another post.) And, if you're really into MLB, the Oakland A's and the Coliseum are just a BART ride away (the Tigers are in town this weekend) - Jack London Square is nice over on that side of the bay, and Heinold's First & Last Chance Saloon is unique!

I see you stumbled in at the middle of this movie.... State revokes new license of Kane cabbie By Aaron Besecker l BUFFALO NEWS STAFF REPORTER The cab driver at the center of the charges against hockey star Patrick Kane applied for a driver’s license under a different name and address shortly after his license was revoked in 1999 for drunken driving, a state Department of Motor Vehicles official said Wednesday. In response to an inquiry from The Buffalo News, the agency has merged the two licenses and revoked the new license, adding it is investigating whether fraud occurred. The move also leaves 62-year-old Jan Radecki of Buffalo facing the possibility of a felony charge, Chautauqua County District Attorney David W. Foley told The News on Wednesday. Someone with a revoked license who, for whatever reason, applies for a new one under a different name and address could face, at minimum, a charge of filing a false instrument, Foley said. “To me, that’s a crime,” he said. link

I'll see your Andrew LoTempio, and raise you one Paul Cambria! link

Not at all afraid of being trapped in a cab - but I would be afraid that I'd use that thing on the recidivist drunk cabbie's head if he illegally locked me in the back of his car. So I wouldn't carry it. 'd just do what the Kanes did - force the illegal cab operator to unlock the doors. But you're right - the cab driver panicked, and did a stupid thing.

Probably not necessary - the Bills fans are already catching on that Maybin/Maybin's agent are the a-holes, just like Peters/Parker were. The fans' bad feelings about Maybin and this holdout are already coming to the surface, no?

Yes, I believe 'self-preservation' is what the Kanes were engaged in when they attempted to escape from their illegal prison in the back of this drunk's cab. And no, I'm certainly not a cheapskate. In fact, I over-tip - as I'm sure the Kanes were about to until they found themselves illegally trapped in the back of this recidivist drunk's cab, which he was operating illegally, without a drivers license, perhaps even under the influence himself. Once that happens, all tips are off - and yes, at that point I also want my $1.20 ($20 CN) in change.

Have I mentioned that the cabbie in question is a habitual criminal offender - a convicted drunken driver with a high degree of recidivism?

They still have one at... The Essex Pub

It was a $13.80 fare, they handed him 15 bucks. That's $1.20 in change they were owed, prior to being illegally locked in the back of this drunk's cab - one dollar and 20 cents - or, twenty bucks Canadian.

I have never been - if I want to see drugged-up lions, I drive to Detroit.

Which makes what "choice even more shameful"? That entire paragraph makes no sense whatsoever - WTF are you saying? Seriously. I have not read anything at all about any Latin dancing as it relates to this incident. Because the cabbie is a recidivist drunk, endangering the Kanes by operating a cab illegally, w/out a valid drivers license, then by locking them in against their will. My understanding is that, after illegally locking the Kanes in the back of his cab against their will, that the recidivist drunk hack then refused to provide the $1.20 in change he owed them. I believe they were arrested at the scene.

Jason Peters is a Pro Bowl-caliber left tackle.

...remembers Jason Peters before he turned into Mike Williams!

OK, but can we bash Jason Peters while we're at it?

Was he charged with 'drinking underage', or is there any legal evidence that he was in fact drinking alcohol on the evening in question?

One guy I absolutely know is going to be on the roster on September 14th is Terrell Owens. Much like Kelly, Smith, et al back in the days of 'Camp Marv', no sense in wearing this guy out in the pre-season, or aggravating a minor injury so that it becomes a nagging, season-long hindrance to his route-running.

Hey - if I gotta pay full price for those 2 games in August, they might as well count in the standings.

OK, now - just for argument's sake - let's say you have that $20K, or $200K, or $2M, or even $20M in your bank account - and, no matter how much of an ass hole you and your agent are, and how much you try to 'hardball' the Bills, you're not getting one freakin' penny more - but you might just get less while alienating your new employers, teammates, and fans, and maybe even sit your sorry ass out long enough to lose a roster spot this season.... Now what would you do? 'Cause really, I was giving this clown the benefit of the doubt right until about this week, but enough is enough - and I've had about enough of this greedy ass hole who had one decent season as a college player, and who may end up a complete bust in the NFL. Get your lazy greedy ass to camp and get to work, Maybin.

No, Bethlehem Steel filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and won't even honor its obligations to its pensioners. In 1983, Bethlehem Steel shut down almost all of it's Lackawanna NY facility - which once employed over 20,000 at the 4th largest steel-making facility in the world. In 2003, the Lackawanna NY plant and other assets were acquired by International Steel Group, which itself merged with Ispat Int'l and LNM Holdings in 2004 to form Mittal Steel, which then joined forces with Arcelor in 2006 to form ArcelorMittal - the current owners of the old Bethlehem Steel site thru their wholly owned subsidiary, Tecumseh Redevelopment Inc. (Follow all that?) The plan was to remediate the site and develop it into a 'business park' Since then, there have been announcements, proclamations, proposals, etc., but, at least on my regular drive-bys, little progress has been noticed. Supposedly, studies were to be finished by this summer and available for public review. As you can see from the photo in this report, the site is massive, stretching from Route 5/Fuhrman Blvd. in the lower left corner of the photo, all the way out thru Lackawanna and into Hamburg, and west all the way to the Lake Erie shoreline... Cleanup Activities Begin at Phase I Business Park Site in Lackawanna I really can't imagine the current economic climate is conducive to this type of development on this massive a scale, especially here in depressed WNY, but we'll see - maybe Barry Obama can throw some stimulus $$$ our way.

Was he...driving?

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"Obviously, it was an interesting day, weatherwise..."

Who would have posted your bail?

I'd be willing to bet your tips go up substantially when you don't lock your passengers in the back of your cab and refuse to unlock the doors! (EDIT: - the # of times you get hit in the back of the head by the passengers you have locked in the back of your cab - against their will - probably also goes down in direct proportion )