The O-town Scene - Oneonta, NY
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R.o.B.S. Man steals away from A. police, cuffed to chair BUFFALO _ If you're in Buffalo and see a man handcuffed to a chair, call police. They'd like the chair back, along with the guy shackled to it. Authorities are looking for a robbery suspect who escaped from a Buffalo police station by slipping out a back door while handcuffed to a chair. Police tell Buffalo media outlets that 58-year-old John Caesar of Buffalo was taken into custody Tuesday for questioning in con- nection with the theft of money from the Anchor Bar, the restau- rant known for inventing the city's famous chicken wings. Officials say Caesar was handcuffed to a chair in a police station when he escaped around 4 p.m. Police say the chair is missing and Caesar may still be handcuffed to it. B. Have an idea for a column? E-mail Cassandra at editor@ otownscene.com It’s hard to tell what’s true these days. Take a gander below, and guess if A. and B. are Real or B.S. (Answers at the bottom of the page.) ‘Chemtrails’ ordinance gains steam at meeting BAKER, Mont. _ An otherwise routine town meeting in a small Montana town took a bizarre turn Monday night, resulting in passage of a local ordinance against “chemtrails.” The Baker City Council’s regularly sched- uled monthly meeting only drew two of its seven members. Because of a lack of quorum laws on the city books, the meeting proceeded as planned, despite the small number of coun- cil members in attendance. The two present _ Chairman E. John Ja- cobsen, and Virginia Dietz _ diverted from the published agenda, which had included considering a review of the city’s zoning ordinances and approving a permit for the Fallon County Fair parade. Instead, Jacob- sen proposed an ordinance in opposition to a phenomenon known as “chemtrails.” In part, the ordinance reads, “The Baker City Council urges the state and federal governments to investigate and take steps to halt the practice known as ‘chemtrails,’ by which chemical agents including, but not limited to, aluminum, barium, silicon carbide and thorium are sprayed at high altitude by military aircraft, leaving visible trails in the atmosphere.” The resolution further states that these cloudlike trails have “permanent and lasting” impacts on weather phenomena, including air temperatures. Federal officials in the United States and other nations have sought to debunk the chemtrails theory, arguing that the vis- ible trails left by aircraft are nothing more than water vapor and/or engine exhaust interacting with the atmosphere. A local man who did not want to be identified said after the meeting that he ap- plauded Jacobsen and Dietz for “taking a stand” on this issue, but that he doubted the resolution would accomplish anything. “You can’t fight the Feds, and that’s who’s behind this whole thing,” he said. “It’s big- ger than Fallon County, or even the state of Montana.” But not everyone was pleased with the resolution. Councilman Wes Friedrichs, who said he was unable to attend the meeting because of a personal commitment, said he would make repealing the ordinance his “first order of business” at the council’s next meeting. “It’s ridiculous, and it makes us look bad,” Friedrichs said by phone Monday night. “This is going to put Baker on the map, and not in a positive way.” .S., by Emily Popek.. is Bess; Beal by The Associated PrA. is r April 28, 2011 O-Town Scene 29