Thank you to everyone who has followed this series or voted for it's creation. I'm glad you've enjoyed it and I'm always happy to spread the important history of the amusement industry, especially pertaining to the place that inspired me to go into the industry. For parts 1-4 scroll back in this sub or click my profile.
In 1989, Welland Securities, who owned the entire south-west side of the Hill, would develop the final portion of unused land on Clifton Hill. They would become HOCO (Harry Oakes Company) and gain ownership of almost all the attractions on land they leased out. This included Movieland, The Space Spiral Tower and the Cliffside Motel. The only attractions that would continue being leased were Ripley's and Circus World, meaning HOCO not only owned all the land on the South-West side of the hill, they now ran everything between Circus World and Ripley's, as well as the Fudge Factory (in its original spot) and an ice cream stand immediately down the hill from Circus World. They planned to keep everything that was on the hill but build on it.
Movieland was remodeled and the outside was given a more noticeable Egyptian theme to match the lobby. This meant large lion statues and Costello's talking pharaoh. The lobby was remodeled as well. Rather than a cameraman and a director filming Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, they would now be filming Costello's Indiana Jones figure, who lowered up and down on a rope above a fogging pit with a cobra rising out of it. Many of the early talkie-era stars in the hall immediately after the entrance (along with Elizabeth Taylor) were moved to 2 large display cases in the middle of the attraction with multiple figures, instead of each one having their own scene. In their original spot just inside the entrance an intentionally scary scene was created to match the popular Indiana Jones series. Many of the figures Costello had added since he became the museum's artist were slightly frightening, like a lunging alligator or a startling Joker scene with a machine gun sound effect. The museum had been expanded at the end, and a large horror section had been added, with many figures like the mummy being from the same mold as the House of Frankenstein/Castle Dracula mummys. Unlike when it would move to it's current location in 2005, the old location's chicken exit was placed before the horror section rather than the haunted house portion. In fact, there was no haunted house section, many of the figures that would end up in the haunted house section of the new location were simply scattered throughout the museum. Many of the figures in the horror section of the original museum were actually less scary and less animated than the Jurassic park scene or the alligator encountered earlier in the museum. To prevent unsuspecting parents who had no clue what kind of attraction this was dragging their children in and expecting static figures of washed-up movie stars, getting the living daylights scared out of them, then end ending up filing complaints with HOCO's customer service department, an intentionally scary scene was put at the beginning. This let people know what they were walking in to, an experience rather than a museum. Costello designed figures behind plexiglass such as a man upside down in a cocoon thrashing around, a skull that popped up from the floorboards in a scene full of snakes, a man on a bed of spikes that fell towards you, and a scene with spiders on fishing line "jumping" all over a rotting corpse.
The Cliffside Motel was amalgamated into a wing of the Quality Inn, and the driveway into it off the hill was removed as it was no longer necessary because it could be accessed from the Quality Inn parking lot. In the driveway's place was now a large empty space between Circus World and Movieland, with the Space Spiral Tower (with a relatively small footprint) stuck in the middle. HOCO called upon attraction design and layout firm White Hutchison Leisure Learning Group (WHLLG) to design an attraction around the Space Spiral that would use the final undeveloped land on Clifton Hill. And so WHLLG designed Dazzleland Family Fun Centre. Dazzleland was a courtyard of buildings arranged in roughly the same layout as the Great Canadian Midway (for reasons we'll get to later) that sits on the land now. The buildings around the outside of the courtyard were long and narrow, picture a courtyard of carnival game trailers but permanent, appealing buildings. These buildings included a Skee-ball building, a sports game building (basketball games, football toss etc.), a racing game building, a pinball building, a funnel cake shop, and the prize counter. In the back corner, roughly where the XD Theatre now is in the midway, was a larger building: an arcade housing video games and more pinball machines. In the middle of the courtyard was a small carousel, and a small building housing games that dispensed their own prizes (claw machines, prize egg games, etc.) and coin-op kiddie rides.
The Space Spiral was incorporated into Dazzleland, still being accessible directly off the hill. As mentioned in part 3, the tower was exactly where the Fudge Factory now is, as the circular store was once the loading area for the tower. At this time the snack bars beside the tower right on the hill were constructed: a pretzel/hotdog stand and an ice cream stand, both of which are still there. The Wendy's was built on top of Circus World, replacing the mini golf that had formerly been on the attraction's roof. Across the entrance to Dazzleland's courtyard from Wendy's was a Domino's Pizza, roughly where the photo booth just to your right is when entering the Great Canadian Midway now. Between the Space Spiral and the Dominos was a fortune teller machine built right into the wall: "Ask the Brain". The brain still lives on inside Movieland, except now he wants a loonie instead of a quarter. Just up the hill from the Space Spiral, on top of the hot dog and ice cream stand, a small sports bar was built. Very little is known about this sports bar, but obvious remnants of it still exists. The area of Boston Pizza closest to the hill (the back corner near the kitchen, the bar area, and the raised dining area) was the originally the sports bar. It featured a small coin-op bowling lane, arcade games, and food. The stairs in the Midway up to Boston Pizza beside Ghostblasters is the original stairs up from Dazzleland to the sports bar. Additionally, the Boston Pizza entrance closer to the hill (not the one with the big bowling pin, other one) was the main entrance to the sports bar. Little is known about the bar, including it's name. It may not have had one, simply being part of the Dazzleland complex. Many of the areas in Dazzleland didn't have a name, simply having signs heralding "Arcade", "Sports Games", "Skeeball" rather than naming the areas like the "Game Factory", "Sports Zone" or "Strike! Rock 'n Bowl" like in the Midway. For this reason, the bar may have been nameless, simply being part of the Dazzleland complex, but it's unlikely a dining establishment geared at adult nightlife wouldn't have a name.
Because the mini golf on Circus World's roof had been operated by the Cliffside Motel operators, HOCO acquired all the assets from it when they stopped leasing the land out. When the aforementioned Wendy's was built, the mini golf was moved just up the hill from the sports bar. It's entrance was right on the hill, but the course wrapped around the sports bar and ran back behind Dazzleland, between the back of Dazzleland and the parking lot of the Quality Inn. It would now be dinosaur themed and heavily landscaped. WHLLG designed the course and HOCO contracted Costello to build all the fiberglass dinosaurs. It's unknown what it's original name was, but in the early 90s, with the smash hit of Jurassic Park, it was renamed Dinosaur Park and given a similar logo. Up until the 2018 remodel, Boston Pizza had a patio. This patio was the exact location of the entrance to the mini golf, and the reason the restaurant's building curved in such a bizarre way surrounding the patio was originally to accommodate the course. Underneath the sports bar and mini golf and was an underground building accessible from a back corner of Dazzleland's courtyard. This area housed all of Dazzleland's miscellaneous ticket redemption games and 2 shooting galleries. The low-ceiling area of the Midway called the "Game Factory" is this original building. The Bonanaza Company shooting gallery is still there albeit heavily remodeled, but Blasteroids, an early project by arcade game company Lazer-Tron, was removed in 2016. Interestingly, the chase lights along the back wall of the Game Factory are Dazzleland holdovers. Between the shooting gallery and where what's left of the racing games now are is a bank of maintenance doors. If you get lucky and see them open, you'll see a stairs that was originally an entrance to Dazzleland from further up the street, beside Dinosaur Park. This now lets out somewhere in Boston Pizza's arcade (although I haven't been able to figure out where) and is used by staff to get from "a" to "b" faster.
Dazzleland has been the hardest to dig up information on in my research on Clifton Hill. Although I now know what was in each of the buildings around the outside of this "courtyard", I haven't been able to find which one was where. The only things I've confirmed is where the video game building was, what was in the building in the middle, and confirmed that the Game Factory was originally part of Dazzleland. The rest is beyond me and my memories of it have long faded. If anyone worked here or visited it frequently and has any answers, they would be greatly appreciated. Additionally there was a small pool near the front with a Costello dragon figure in it that spit water out it's mouth. I've heard conflicting reports that this was just a fountain, and others saying it was a small bumper boat or RC boat attraction, but my guess is it was just a fountain as it seems like a pretty small pool. The same year, fiberglass dragon waterslides were added to the Quality Inn pool. Although bearing striking resemblance to Costello's dinosaurs and Dazzleland dragon, at least one more of each of the dragon slides exist, all the way down in Texas. It was originally thought this Texas waterpark bought them off HOCO when Quality Inn closed, but one of the Quality Inn dragons appeared on an episode of shipping wars going to Kansas and the other was recently found abandoned on a private residential property in Niagara, proving they are in fact not the ones at the Texas waterpark. This is evidence they may have been mass produced.
By the time Dazzleland opened in 1989, it was the 8th arcade on the hill (after Circus World, Q-Balls Billiards Pub in Quality Inn, the arcade in Ripley's, the arcade in the Foxhead, the arcade in Castle Dracula, Funland in the basement of the House of Frankenstein, and an arcade that had recently opened in the Pilgrim Motel in their gift shop.) These were just the large-scale, dedicated arcades right on the hill. Many others could be found nearby in Maple Leaf Village, the Skylon, the Seagram, Pyramid Place and the Imperial Hotel as well as many mini golf courses and family fun centres along Lundy's Ln. and the QEW. Also, virtually every gift shop on Clifton Hill and Victoria Ave. had a game or 2.
The mix of arcades, haunted houses, fast food, nightlife and stores selling t-shirts and posters had started a well-known rock culture in Niagara Falls among Southern Ontario youth. The epicenter of this was "Rock World", a rock-themed gift shop that had opened in 1983 on Centre St. (the street Clifton Hill becomes just above Victoria Ave.) They would later add a second story and build Rock Legends Wax Museum above it, with all the figures sculpted by the store's owner Pasquale Rammuno. In 1996, Maple Leaf Village was replaced by Casino Niagara, and many of the attractions found new homes on Victoria Ave., including Screamers and Nightmares. The Elvis Museum, Antique Auto Museum, 50s diner nightclub, and arcade all moved to Pyramid Place adjacent to the IMAX pyramid. Screamers prospered on Victoria Ave., and 2 "sequel attractions" were built in the early 2000s: Creatures of the Night on Victoria Ave. and Horror Manothe Zombie Zoo Nightclub on Centre St. Another attraction, Alien Encounter, would open at the corner of Victoria Ave. and Clifton Hill beside the Criminals Hall of Fame. This slightly thematically darker "north of the hill" area with the Screamers chain, the Criminals Hall of Fame, Rock Legends, Nightmares and Alien Encounter became a "main strip" all in it's own.
As mentioned before, since the cabin courts were all town down in the early 50s, nothing had been torn down on Clifton Hill. The only exception was the Houdini Hall of Fame that burnt to ash in 1996. Some of Houdini's Last Words were claiming that anything revealing his secrets would perish in flame, and even though the fire completely leveled the museum, the plywood and fiberglass paneled House of Frankenstein only separated from it by a 2-foot wide alley was completely untouched, leading a lot of Houdini's fans to believe he was conducting some kind of post-mortem practical joke. The metal objects like handcuffs and the water tank could be saved, and were bought by David Copperfield. Ripley's Moving Theatre was built in it's place. Over the 30 years from Tussaud's opening in 1959 to Dazzleland in 1989, Clifton Hill had expanded and filled up the land. However that didn't mean it was time to tear things down. Things were simply moved around or remodeled to keep them fresh, not out of an unwillingness to change, but because these things had become ingrained in the landscape. Examples of this were Tussaud's moving to its current home in the old building of a restaurant that had since moved on Victoria Ave., rather than the attraction shutting down, or the Adventure Dome Theatre oepneing in part of the Honeymoon City's gift shop. In Tussaud's old place was built the MGM walkthrough/store, Pink Panther ride and 4D Ride in 2002. The beer garden beside it was replaced with the WWE building and the Piledriver ride, but the beer area was moved to between the 2 attractions. In 2004 the Foxhead's arcade was expanded and re-themed into the Marvel Superheros Adventure City.
Another great example of re-freshing an existing attraction was Dazzleland. A simple realization was made, more games = more money and higher guest enjoyment. The outdoor courtyard style with it's room for walkways between the buildings was re-designed, and HOCO again called upon WHLLG. WHLLG designed not only a remodel of Dazzleland, but an incredible 5-step plan that would have made Clifton Hill financially on par with a major theme park. Steps 1-3 came to fruition. Step 1 was remodeling Dazzleland into the Great Canadian Midway in 2002. The level, concrete foundation Dazzleland was built on was kept as the foundation of the Midway, hence why it has the same layout. The former video game building at the back became the FX Ride Theatre (now XD Theatre/Wild West Coaster) in the Midway. The funnel cake shop was kept where it was in Dazzleland except now it was in the Midway, between the FX Ride and the Prize Counter. The area housing Dazzleland's ticket redemption games became the Game Factory. The middle building housing the claw games and kiddie rides was demolished, as it was no longer needed because the Midway was fully indoors and there was now a massive space to put games. The sports bar was expanded and became Boston Pizza, so Dinosaur Park was moved to in front of the Comfort Inn. Under the expanded Boston Pizza, Sally Corp. was hired to build the interactive Ghostblasters dark ride. All of Dazzleland's old games made the transition into the Midway, however very few are still around.
With the Midway making serious buck, HOCO went ahead with phase 2 of WHLLG's plan. Movieland was moved to Circus World's former location in 2005, and Circus World's owners moved the attraction to what was then the popular Victoria Ave. area. In Movieland's old home, Cosmic Golf, a blacklight golf was temporarily set up. 2 years later in 2007, the golf moved to it's permanent home in the basement becoming Galaxy Golf and the gift shop that had been formerly in the basement was moved upstairs. Movieland retained all the figures and sets they had at the time of the move, moving them all into the new space. All the scary elements were put in the new "House of Horrors", a small optional haunted house at the end of the attraction.
Phase 3 involved beginning to demolish the only thing that WHLLG's 5 phase plan would have torn down: Quality Inn. In it's place an amusement park would have been built, anchored by Canada's largest ferris wheel. The wheel would be phase 3 and the amusement park phase 4. Though both WHLLG and HOCO recognized the historical value of the hotel, it had reasons to go. The hotel may have been full of your usual hazardous mid-century building materials (however Comfort Inn built by the same firm the same year was found to have no hazardous materials when it was torn down in 2015, so who knows) but the main issue was elevators and the amount of space it took up. Comfort Inn only had 2 wings, one on each side of the lobby, and only 2 elevators would have needed to be installed. This wasn't legally necessary, as no law states that buildings of age absolutely have to be 100% accessible, it was more something HOCO wanted to do. Quality Inn had multiple wings that weren't accessible from one another, so an elevator would need to be installed in each wing. In addition to the elevator issue, Comfort Inn was chosen as the hotel to keep because the building was integrated with Kelsey's, Rumors Nightclub, Ripley's, and Dinosaur Park, all of which wouldn't have been touched in WHLLG's 5 phase plan. Finally, Comfort Inn's land wasn't big enough for an amusement park whereas Quality Inn's was. 2 things would justify the demolition of Quality Inn. One, it's sister hotel, Comfort Inn, would have been kept. The other reason justifying the demolition would be phase 5: a skyscraper hotel and indoooutdoor waterpark in the field between Clifton Hill and the Skylon Tower. The dragon figures from Quality Inn's pool were kept in HOCO's storage for a time for this waterpark. The final vision can be seen here.
Phase 3 would go ahead in 2006, with the lobby, Golden Griddle and Q-Balls Billiard pub of Quality Inn being torn down and the Skywheel built in it's place. For the last year Quality Inn was open, you would need to register at Comfort Inn's lobby. The same year, the Space Spiral was torn down, as 2 observation attractions wouldn't be needed on the hill. However, a new spiral tower would have been constructed during phase 4 in the theme park. The reason the tower would be demolished rather than moved was because a tower manufactured by the same company in Wildwood, NJ, had begun to sway a few years earlier, resulting in it needing to be removed entirely for safety reasons. Phase 4 was set to go ahead in 2010, so in 2009 the remainder of Quality Inn was demolished. It seemed as though everything would fall into place, and with the exception of Quality Inn making it's sacrifice, everything on Clifton Hill that had been there for 20-60 years would be there forever, just greatly expanded on.
Unfortunately, this came at a turning point for Clifton Hill, when the recession was in full swing and tourism had declined since 9/11. Changing technology and interests, but no real nostalgia trend yet, created a perfect storm, and the idea was scrapped. Especially now that there would be no amusement park, a lot of area attractions closed. HOCO now needed to find a new design company to completely re-design the project. The problem was, Quality Inn was already torn down to make way for the amusement park. HOCO reluctantly found a new design company who had no projects under their belt yet, IDS. HOCO was hopeful the Canadian company could help give them a similar vision to their previous 5 stage plan, that would help them re-use many of the already implemented stages and despite scrapping the amusement park, would simply scale down and redesign the hotel. This was done in hopes that the city would be much more likely to approve just another high rise hotel than an amusement park as well. IDS' new plan was much different than what HOCO was looking for. It featured tearing down Ripley's, Comfort Inn, Kelsey's, and Rumours Nightclub and building a Titanic Museum shaped like the boat. It also featured building a large mall within the hotel rather than a waterpark and relocating and expanding Dinosaur Park into Dinosaur Adventure Golf on Quality Inn's old land. While HOCO thankfully chose not to go ahead with the mall and Titanic Museum, they would build Dinosaur Adventure Golf and work with IDS to make a more feasible plan that better suited Clifton Hill.
The new plan featured Dinosaur Adventure Golf and Strike! Rock 'n Bowl as phase 1. It also included removing a lot of the thematic brand identity elements WHLLG had implemented to coincide with their final amusement park vision and replacing Galaxy Golf with Wizard's Golf as phase 2. Phase 3 would feature tearing down Comfort Inn (that never got it's elevators due to it no longer being planned to be kept), building Niagara Speedway in it's place, and removing Rumors Nightclub to accommodate the new Kelsey's bathrooms and Zombie Attack. Phase 4 would feature remodelling Wendy's, Boston Pizza and Kelsey's. Phase 5 would feature a mall (no hotel) in the field between Dinosaur Adventure Golf and the Skylon, but this final phase will likely never come to fruition.
Multiple attractions have closed since the late 2000's, such as the entire Screamers chain, Circus World, The Criminals Hall of Fame, Funland Arcade and Alien Encounter. The Hilltop Motel became the current home of the Upside Down House, and the Pilgrim Motel became Captain Jack's. Ironically, the only part of the building that's not part of the entertainment centre is a Mini Mart at the back that was the original arcade in the Pilgrim. Virtually everything in the Falls. Ave. complex other than Rainforest Cafe and the 4D theatre is gone. Marvel Superheroes Adventure City lost its license after Disney bought Marvel, and it simply became Adventure City. The Hulk Mini Golf became jungle themed, Spider-Man references were (poorly) removed from the dark ride, and X-men referenced were (also poorly) removed from the bumper cars. References to Marvel can still be found in the arcade, such as Spider-Man's face on a tree that was only covered up a few years ago. The WWE Store, after being abandoned since 2012, was turned into the Niagara Brewery Beer Store in 2016, fitting considering the land's history as a beer garden. Planet Hollywood on Falls Ave. closed around 2014, and is still abandoned. The MGM walkthrough was abandoned for over 10 years before becoming a barbecue restaurant in 2019.
The changes in the Falls Ave. complex are an example of good change, replacing abandoned attractions with ones that if anything are closer to what used to be there, such as Adventure City becoming an unthemed arcade again or the Beer Store being where the Beer Garden once was. Another example of this good change would be the long abandoned (and burnt) Adventure Dome that had briefly held a Lego attraction being turned into the Amazing Big Top Mirror and Lazer Maze in 2017. However a perfect example of negative change is the Rock Legends Wax Museum being forced out of business because a YouTube video of the museum was flagged for copyrighted music by YouTube's algorithms. This lead Sony Music to investigate the museum and shut it down last year if it wouldn't pay ridiculous licensing fees, which it couldn't afford.
Another example is IDS' redevelopment plan. HOCO is now locked in a contract with them, even though they obviously have very different ideas on the direction of Clifton Hill. Phase 1 was implemented in 2011, with Boston Pizza expanding their arcade to include Strike! Rock 'n Bowl and Dinosaur Park moving to where Quality Inn was and being renamed Dinosaur Adventure Golf. All of Costello's original dinosaurs (with the exception of the original Pterodactyl) would "migrate" to the new location where they would be joined by dozens of new mass-produced dinosaurs. Interestingly, foundations were built back in 2011 for the original 2 Brontosaurs to appear as if they were coming out of the ponds, but they wouldn't show up until 2019 when they were brought back out of storage to be installed, only to lay on the ground for a few months before going back into storage. Although it didn't use new hand-made figures, this attraction was a change that fits the spirit of Clifton Hill and was a good replacement for the empty plot of land that had once housed Quality Inn, even if an amusement park would have been better. The same cannot be said about the rest of IDS' plan. Many thematic elements installed throughout the hill by WHLLG (especially in Movieland and the Midway) were removed in phase 2 in 2013 simply to fit with IDS's image better, costing HOCO a lot of money. Phase 3 went ahead in 2015, and the 60 year old Comfort Inn was demolished, along with the old HOCO offices in it that if you remember from part 1, was the original nearly 200 year old stable building for the Zimmerman estate. Niagara Speedway was built in it's place, and if you look at the prices to drive it, then watch how many people do, you realize just how much they're making off it. Rumors Nightclub, originally the Queen's Door Nightclub in 1956, was gutted and turned into Zombie Attack and the new Kelsey's bathrooms, as the old ones had been in the Comfort Inn building. Phase 4 in 2018 extensively remodeled Wendy's as well as Boston Pizza, removing the patio.
Ghostblasters is now the final untouched WHLLG era attraction on the land. This is made even more troubling by the fact the signs for it were just removed and replaced with temporary ones, as I said in the post that started the entire discussion on whether or not I should do this series. If the attraction does go, we can only hope that a new interactive dark ride utilizing artistry, dimensional scenes and props much like Ghostblasters does is built, however that likely won't be the case. Triotech is the lead designer of ride through shooting games, that feature a dark ride car that travels through a hallway with screens on each side of it rather than real props. Triotech has dealt with HOCO before, building both the Wild West Coaster and Zombie Attack, so all signs point to one of these attractions replacing Ghostblasters if it closes.
There is still hope that Clifton Hill can retain it's spirit, but it stands at a crossroads. The House of Frankenstein for example, while retaining many original scenes, has had many removed and replaced with nothing, and many areas of the museum taken out entirely. Castle Dracula on the other hand hasn't updated a thing, but hasn't cared for the original scenes either, leaving them to fall into disrepair and only having 7 or 8 of the original 70 still lit, and none of them still functional. There are 2 directions Clifton Hill can go. With many attractions like the ones on HOCO's side being demolished to make way for whatever is trendy and lucrative, and many hanging on by a thread like Castle Dracula or Ghostblasters, the Hill is in real danger of becoming an endlessly overturning and developing area. However, with money recently being poured back into attractions like the Haunted House, Ripley's, and Guinness and attractions being redeveloped like the Falls Ave. complex or the Big Top Mirror maze, there is hope. If people, including the companies that own them, can recognise the historical value of attractions like Castle Dracula, The House of Frankenstien, Movieland, Tussaud's, etc., this can be promoted and the recent nostalgia boom can create large profits if this is played up. Additionally, future developments can still be more in the vein of what WHLLG envisioned for Clifton Hill, or what the Burlands recently did with the well done Big Top Mirror Maze. This is both profitable and economically sensible, as repeat customers that make memories and come to the area for generations with occasional new updates/re-themings (like what Clifton Hill did from the 50s-2010s), is far more profitable than a constantly turning over wave of new developments that cost millions to build that changes with each generation.
Thank you to everyone who has followed this series. Sorry for the length of this, but I promised this would be the last installment, so it has to be longer. If you have any information pertaining to Dazzleland or anything you know that I didn't cover in this series, let me know. Additionally, if you would like me to dig up photos on anything that I mentioned in the series, let me know, as unless it's the Dazzleland dragon, I probably have a photo of it. I will likely post many of them here anyway in time. Thanks again.

An Incredible Picturesque @ Niagara Falls Tours
As someone thinks about a high wall, the first thing that comes to mind is the Great Wall of China. Similarly, when someone thinks about waterfalls, the first thing that comes to mind is the majestic falls of Niagara. Niagara Falls does not require any introduction, as it is famous for its incredible picturesque. Niagara Falls is the collection of three falls that act as a border between New York, the United States and Ontario, Canada. Every second, almost 3,000 tons of water rumble over the falls, and thousands of tourists come to enjoy this picturesque every day. Niagara Falls Tours has a lot of attractions, fun, entertainment, and adventure-filled on both sides, the U.S. and the Canadian side. The Candian side comparatively has more attractions and fun. It is always great fun to get wet that too with waterfalls make a roaring sound because of water hitting itself like a splash.
A Tour Of Niagara Region –Niagara Falls Tours
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Niagara Falls – A Romantic Trip
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· Hornblower Niagara Cruise
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· Winery Tour
· Visit a casino for some entertainment
· Gambling
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· Fireworks (please check schedule)
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American Side Of Niagara Falls
When you visit the falls, the Maid of the Mist or the Niagara Falls Boat Tour is a must-go trip, and it is only accessible from New York, the American side. It's not needed to show a passport to get on the boat as it goes near the falls and returns to the same place. It's all about a 20-minute tour which takes you near to the basin of all three falls.
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Once you pass through customs, move ahead to the Table Rock Centre. It's situated directly across from Horseshoe Falls and offers excellent views for free. Children will enjoy and shows a keen interest in visiting Niagara's Fury, a 4D attraction that shows how the falls were formed. Visitors can get a ticket for Journey Behind the Falls, which is almost the same as the Cave of the Winds. But Journey Behind the Falls is different from Cave of the Winds, and it is kept open all year-round.
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Below I’ve listed every law that was broken in The Office (from destruction of property and battery to homicide and kidnapping) whether legal action was taken or not, as well as ideas that people had that were illegal; I’m not a legal expert, I just have a lot of much free time (I labeled the episodes the same way that Netflix does.)
S1E3: Dwight claims that multiple people in the office forged medical forms for their health insurance plans
S1E6: Michael claims that Dunder Mifflin employees in the 80’s constantly used cocaine
S2E1: Pam, Kelly, and Phyllis reveal that there is something written on the women’s bathroom wall, later Pam reveals to Jim that she was the one who wrote it; people throw food at Michael (would fall under battery)
S2E2: Packer reveals that he’s been convicted of a DUI
S2E3: Dwight reveals that sometimes teenagers use his farm for sex (depending on their ages, this may be illegal as the Pennsylvania age of consent is sixteen)
S2E6: Dwight punches Michael in the stomach twice with considerable force (Michael does bait him into doing it though)
S2E8: Jim punctures a hole in Dwight’s “fitness orb” with a pair of scissors; it is implied that a former accountant killed himself; Dwight reveals that he made a copy of Michael’s key to the office
S2E10: Meredith flashes Michael in his office
S2E11: Michael tells everyone on the cruise that the ship is sinking when there’s no danger (creating a false panic is illegal in most cases)
S2E12: Dwight crashes his car into a telephone pole outside of the office and leaves his bumper in the street
S2E14: Michael says that Packer once held a man’s head into a toilet; it is also implied that Packer was the one who defecated in Michael’s office
S2E15: Michael causes lots of damage in the warehouse by improperly using the lift (he also doesn’t have a license to operate it)
S2E16: Michael jaywalks (technically illegal though typically not enforced); Michael comments that someone was pooping in a cardboard box in the subway
S2E17: Dwight tackles Ryan, Creed, and Stanley to the ground
S2E19: Michael finds out that he’s involved in a pyramid scheme
S2E20: Dwight finds a joint in the parking lot (Pennsylvania didn’t make steps to decriminalize marijuana until 2014); Michael believes he unknowingly smoked marijuana at a concert; Dwight gives Michael some of his urine so that he can pass a drug test
S2E21: Creed faces sideways after his company photo is taken, implying that he’s been arrested in the past
S2E22: Creed steals casino chips and also admits to stealing things all of the time; Dwight kisses Angela and she hits him in response (though it seems like both parties were okay with the outcome)
S3E1: Roy reveals that he was arrested for drunk driving
S3E4: Creed reveals that the reason Ed Truck got decapitated was because he was driving drunk (though this was never confirmed and Creed tends to lie); the bird funeral is lit on fire (probably illegal as they did not have a permit and it was mainly paper and not wood)
S3E5: Ryan and Dwight egg the front of Axelrod Ltd’s building
S3E6: Jim rides his bike drunk (believe it or not, this is actually illegal)
S3E7: Creed sells office equipment
S3E8: Andy steals a computer from the Stamford office; after poking holes in everyone’s tires, Michael claims it was Vance Refrigeration workers that did it
S3E9: It is revealed that Martin went to jail for insider trading; Kevin admits that insider trading sounds a lot like what he does as well
S3E10: Creed removes a present from the charity box (removing uncollected items from charity drives is theft); Pam reveals that she has been sending fake letters from the CIA to Dwight, Jim later gets involved (illegal to pass yourself off as a CIA agent)
S3E13: Andy punches a hole through the wall
S3E16: Michael reveals that his eighth grade teacher hooked up with at least thirteen students; Dwight reveals that he hunted a werewolf as a child, but it’s more likely that he killed his neighbor’s dog; Dwight traps a bat in a bag over Meredith’s head
S3E17: Creed reveals that he has a side business where he makes fake IDs for teens; Creed also reveals that he stole a laminating machine from the sheriff’s station; Dwight accidentally damages David’s roof while inspecting the chimney; Roy and his brother destroy multiple objects in a bar including a mirror, a chair, and multiple glasses (Roy’s brother later reveals that he paid off the bar owner to not call the cops on them)
S3E18: Roy attempts to assault Jim in the office after finding out he kissed Pam; Dwight uses pepper spray on Roy when he attempts to assault Jim (this was done defense of Jim however); Jim reveals that Dwight has weapons such as nunchucks and throwing stars hidden in the office; Dwight uses pepper spray against Andy; Dwight is found to have more weapons hidden in his desk such as brass knuckles, a police baton, and a taser
S3E19: Darryl reveals that Michael once kicked a ladder out from under him and caused him to break his ankle; Michael accidentally smashes a watermelon on the roof of someone’s car; Michael tries to convince the office that he’s going to commit suicide
S3E20: A former Dunder Mifflin employee from the paper mill put a watermark of two cartoon animals having sex on about five-hundred boxes-worth of paper; Creed frames Debbie Brown from the paper mill for not catching the watermark on the paper, which results in her termination; it was revealed that Andy was unknowingly dating a high schooler (only illegal if they had sexual contact); Andy reveals that he and his high school girlfriend knocked over a mailbox with her friends
S3E21: Phyllis claims that she was flashed by a man in the parking lot; when Jim calls the police to report the flasher, he says that the police have already gotten three calls; Creed implies that he has flashed people in the past; Jan offers Michael money in return for him driving to New York and having sex (it is illegal to accept or pay money for sex, even if the other person is not a prostitute); Meredith throws her trash out of her car window onto the street while also driving recklessly; while parking her car, Meredith scrapes another car; Creed reveals that he uses the women’s bathroom for bowel movements and has “paid dearly” for it in the past; Dwight and Andy put up barbed wire on the parking lot fence of the office (using barbed wire is typically illegal if the fence is adjacent to a public street)
S3E22: Michael lights a bonfire on the beach (he likely did not have a fire permit)
S3E23: Jim and Karen sneak into a theater to see the second half of Spamalot (would technically burglary, believe it or not, since they snuck in with the intent of stealing services); Jan claims that the reason she is being fired from Dunder Mifflin is because of her breast implants (though David says it is because of her work ethic)
S4E1: Michael hits Meredith with his car and fractures her pelvis; Dwight attempts to mercy kill Angela’s cat by trapping it in her freezer
S4E2: Michael claims that when he was a child, he had a foreign exchange student living with him that stole all of his blue jeans when he went back to his home country; Kelly tells Ryan that she is pregnant with his child in an attempt to get him to go on a date with her (this could fall under intentional infliction of emotional distress)
S4E3: Michael and Dwight detain the pizza deliveryman in the office conference room; Dwight reveals that the pizza deliveryman steals hemp from his farm; Andy reveals that he stole the ice sculpture he brought to the party; Michael and Dwight steal a tray of sushi and some accessories from a restaurant
S4E4: Dwight admits that the permits on the bed and breakfast side of Schrute Farms are still pending even though he is actively taking customers; Creed reveals that he has a second identity that he transfers his debt to; Michael and Jan are likely trespassing while they are sitting on the stationed train
S4E6: Dwight attempts to create molotov cocktails to throw in the Utica office; Michael drives recklessly on the highway; while stealing the Utica branch’s industrial copier, Michael and Dwight break it; Dwight reveals more weapons that he has in the office, including a pack of knives, a pair of sai, a sword, and a blowdart (having these weapons in the open is not illegal, but concealing them is)
S4E8: Michael purgers himself during Jan’s deposition
S4E9: Jan throws a Dundie at Michael’s TV and breaks it
S4E10: It is revealed that the model from Micahel’s chair catalog died in a car accident (Dwight says that she was stoned at the time and crashed into the side of an airplane hanger)
S4E11: Ryan states that the Dunder Mifflin website was infiltrated by sexual predators (only illegal if they used it to transmit child pornography or arrange meetings with minors with the intent of sexual contact); it is heavily implied that Ryan and his friend Troy are under the influence of cocaine
S4E12: Michael places his face in wet cement outside of the office (would be considered destruction of property)
S4E13: Andy drives a golf cart recklessly and ends up destroying its roof (and potentially the cart as well)
S4E14: Jim sets up Dwight’s cell and work phones to go to his Bluetooth and pretends to be him when clients call (could fall under criminal impersonation); Ryan commits fraud by having people re-record sales and is arrested for it; Dwight, Meredith, and Mose release a raccoon into Holly’s car (only illegal if it does damage to her car)
S5E1: Phyllis blackmails Angela by threatening to reveal Angela and Dwight’s affair unless she lets Phyllis run the Party Planning Committee
S5E3: Kelly reveals that she downloads pirated music onto her work computer, to which Michael responds, “who hasn’t”; Meredith reveals that she’s been sleeping with a supplier in exchange for discounts on supplies and Outback Steakhouse gift certificates (could fall under the scope of prostitution); Michael threatens to kill everyone if they don’t go to the conference room
S5E4: Dwight tries to destroy Jan’s $1,200 stroller
S5E5: The office is robbed after Michael and Holly forget to lock the office’s front door; Creed implies that he made the last person who stole from him disappear, and that he stole the identity Creed Bratton from them
S5E7: Kelly falsifies customer surveys regarding Jim and Dwight
S5E9: Michael attempts to purchase marijuana from two Vance Refrigeration workers, and they trick him into buying a salad in a bag rather than drugs (intent to purchase illegal drugs is illegal, and so is selling counterfeit drugs); Michael and Dwight attempt to frame Toby with drug trafficking and possession of marijuana; when the cops arrive, Creed becomes incredibly worried that he’ll be arrested, implying that he either has drugs in the office, or is a drug dealer
S5E10: Dwight tricks Angela into marrying him (this would be considered fraudulently inducing someone into marriage)
S5E11: Creed is seen smoking out of a pipe likely containing kif, which has cannabis in it; Creed says that he can get fire permits very quickly, implying that they are possibly fake; Michael forces Meredith into going to a rehab facility (technically falls under the definition of kidnapping)
S5E12: Jim uncovers more weapons that Dwight has hidden throughout the office; Andy pins Dwight against a fence with his car, Dwight dents Andy’s car
S5E13: Jim connects a red wire to Dwight’s computer which leads outside to the top of the power pole (would qualify as vandalism to the pole); Michael and Dwight attempt to learn information about a competitor under the guise of a potential customer and potential employee (could be considered corporate espionage, but I couldn’t find any specifics)
S5E14: Dwight induces panic law by simulating a fire in the office, he additionally damages multiple doors and cuts the phone wires; during the fire drill, multiple office employees damage items in the office including ceiling tiles, the copier machine, and the vending machine; Dwight reveals that he is planning a bomb scare; Dwight is shown to have a hunting knife strapped to his ankle, and he uses this knife to cut apart the CPR dummy (though corporate payed for the damages to the dummy); Andy, Jim, and Pam watch a pirated film
S5E15: Dwight buys cookies from Toby in exchange for him signing a form (quid pro quo on this is illegal); Dwight attempts to have his coworkers sign his form under the guise of it being a sign-in sheet; Michael throws full slices of bread on the ground to feed pigeons (it was winter and there were no birds, so this could be considered littering)
S5E16: Jim cuts the cord that connects Michael’s phone to the office’s PA system; Dwight finds out that Kelly went to juvenile detention when she was younger; Creed gives Jim a $3 bill (counterfeit money is illegal)
S5E17: Creed says he knows where to buy a kid for $7,000; it’s revealed that the reason Kelly was in juvenile detention was because she stole her boyfriend’s father’s boat; Michael cuts off a sleeve from Holly’s sweater; Michael also takes a file off of Holly’s computer (would be classified as unauthorized computer access)
S5E18: Phyllis and Bob have sex in a restaurant bathroom (this is technically public sex which is a misdemeanor); Creed steals a bag of blood from the blood drive
S5E19: Dwight slaps Michael; Jim slaps Dwight
S5E20: Dwight pretends to have kidnapped David’s son
S5E21: Michael sneaks back into the office after being asked to leave (technically trespassing as it is private property and he was escorted out of the building)
S5E22: Michael breaks his condominium agreement by having the Michael Scott Paper Company located within his condo (though the owner only sent a warning that he needed to stop); Ryan steals three pairs of bowling shoes before he quits the bowling alley; Michael asks Billy to sell him a ‘secret office space’ off of the books within the Scranton Business Park
S5E23: Dwight claims that a woman named Haddie McGonagle was murdered in the Dunder Mifflin office space in 1816 (though he probably made this up)
S5E24: Dwight steals supplies and files from the Michael Scott Paper Company’s office
S5E26: While fixing her dress, Meredith accidentally reveals one of her breasts, as well as her crotch and her backside (was accidental, but could be considered public indecency)
S5E27: Dwight cuts open the back of Phyllis’ blouse so he can give her a massage; Creed reveals that he doesn’t have any mirrors in his car that let him see behind the car (in Pennsylvania, it is illegal to drive without at least one mirror that lets you see behind the car)
S5E28: Dwight’s friend Rolph once inquired about shoes that increased speed and didn’t leave any tracks, implying that he was going to commit a crime
S6E1: Stanley wrecks Michael’s car with a tire iron
S6E2: Dwight and Toby accidentally crash into a few trash cans outside Darryl’s house; Dwight uncovers that the real cause of Darryl’s injury was from misuse of company equipment
S6E4: Michael ties full beer cans to the back of his car which left debris all over the road; Dwight implies that Mose is going to be castrating horses (only legal if Mose has a veterinary license, which is unlikely); Dwight also claims that he has a device which can make hamburgers out of horse meat without killing the horse (likely animal cruelty)
S6E5: The Niagara Falls hotel staff incinerated Kevin’s shoes (they claim they did it because it was a safety issue); Dwight gifts a turtle to Jim and Pam for their wedding and appears to not have made any holes in the box (likely animal cruelty); Dwight accidentally kicks Isabel in the face while dancing
S6E6: While answering Jim’s phone, Kevin pretends to be Jim and accidentally cancels his credit cards
S6E7: Dwight secretly records the conversations in Jim’s office (Pennsylvania has a two-party consent law which means that all parties in the conversations must consent to being recorded); Andy talks about a 60 Minutes segment that went into working conditions of a paper mill in Peru (the 60 Minutes segment likely went into illegal conditions within the mill)
S6E8: Meredith reveals that she has had sex with a known terrorist; while writing down things that people don’t want to be made fun of for, Creed says that if he writes his down, he cannot be charged for it; a custodian reveals that when Michael fell into the koi pond, he accidentally killed one of the fish
S6E9: Ryan shows Erin a topless photo of Kelly in the office (could be considered indecent exposure since it was in a public space within the office); Creed implies that a shipping order was never supposed to reach it’s location, possibly indicating that he stole a shipment
S6E10: Creed flees the office when Michael tells him that there was a murder and that he was a suspect, implying that he may be involved in a murder
S6E12: Dwight secretly records a phone call between Jim and David
S6E13: As part of Secret Santa, Andy gives Erin the Twelve Days of Christmas, inadvertently resulting in physical injury to her and potentially her home and car; Creed implies that he’s done “evil” things; Michael says that he has often claimed to be David’s childrens’ pediatrician to get him on the phone
S6E16: Andy accidentally gives Meredith a large paper cut on her throat; Ryan implies to Dwight that they should torture Jim
S6E17: While escorting Jim and Pam to the hospital, Dwight puts a police light on the top of his car; Michael uses his phone to text and make a call while driving; when being pulled over, Dwight throws multiple large weapons out his window; Michael parks in an ambulance-only parking spot
S6E18: Dwight breaks a window to enter Jim and Pam’s home; after breaking in, Dwight discovers mold in their home and destroys walls and cabinets with a crew of workers so he can refurbish their kitchen; Jim comments that he had five parking tickets on his windshield
S6E20: Creed tries to act casual when Michael announces that the lost and found has gone missing, implying he may have stolen it; Andy aggressively tries to take a pen from Darryl (could be considered battery); Dwight strangles Kevin in an attempt to get information from him; Michael and Dwight, and then later Andy and Erin, walk around the Scranton dump (would be considered trespassing); Michael and Dwight throw large pieces of garbage at each other; Michael and Dwight take two chairs from the dump
S6E21: Phyllis claims she likes getting men to flirt with her so that Bob will beat them up; Michael accidentally damages multiple objects while being reckless at the bar; Dwight breaks his contract with Angela (unsure as to whether a lawyer was involved with the first contract, but Angela served Dwight with a summons for breaking it, leading me to believe it was legitimate); Hide admits that he killed a Yakuza boss on purpose and then came to America illegally
S6E22: Meredith steals and uses Pam’s breast pump
S6E24: Michael hires Dwight to follow Donna around to see if she’s cheating on him (following someone isn’t illega, but it could be considered stalking or harassment); Creed implies that he’s committed crimes for low levels of reward; Michael says he’s going to kill the guy who’s kissing Donna in her Facebook photo (though he immediately takes it back)
S6E25: Michael keeps throwing out radon kits that Toby put around the office; Michael once again claims that he would kill Toby; Dwight claims that his money is buried underneath someone (though we don’t know if this is a grave or a buried corpse); Dwight and Angela’s lawyer comments that their sex contract is dangerously close to prostitution and illegal
S7E1: Dwight tears the head off of Phyllis’ teddy bear and pulls a knife on Jim; Meredith breaks into Michael’s nephew’s car; Michael spanks his nephew
S7E2: Dwight attempts to open a daycare center that is absolutely not up to safety codes; Toby allows Michael to forge his counseling paperwork
S7E4: Dwight is shown attempting to pick up what would appear to be illegal immigrants for day labour and then instead of paying them, has Mose pretend to be an INS agent, kidnaps the workers, and then drops them off in Harrisburg; Holly claims that multiple people died in a traffic accident (though it’s incredibly likely that she was kidding); Michael takes an incredibly quick turn without his turn signal on
S7E5: Michael, Dwight, and Jim secretly watch Danny’s meeting with Meredith through hidden cameras (only illegal if they are recording the footage)
S7E7: Angela steals all of the scones from Cece’s christening (though they were for public consumption so it probably wouldn’t constitute as theft)
S7E8: The Scranton Strangler leads police on a high speed pursuit; Michael tells Pam that he has a loaded gun hidden in his desk at the office; Michael cuts the cable going to Gabe’s apartment
S7E10: Erin floats the idea of hiring a new employee, killing them, and then cashing in on the life insurance policy; Dwight and Phyllis float the idea of bombing China; Pam accuses Dwight of breaking property code laws
S7E11: Dwight and Jim keep throwing snowballs at each other with force, and some that contained pebbles (snowball fights themselves aren’t illegal, but it’s illegal in most places to throw objects which could be considered missiles, and Jim is also shown with what appears to be blood on his clothes afterwards); Dwight asks Toby is he’s on the jury for the middle school teacher who tried to turn a foreign exchange student into a sex slave; Meredith asks Toby if it’s the case with the postman who rubbed his genitals on deliveries; Michael throws out supplies and food meant for the Christmas party; Dwight is shown dragging the Christmas tree out of the office to throw it out; one of the snowballs that Jim lobs at Dwight breaks a window; Michael throws Holly’s Woody doll into the trash and pours coffee on it
S7E12: Jim stabs a few snowmen with his umbrella hoping that Dwight is hiding in one of them
S7E13: Michael claims that regardless if Holly gets engaged or not, he will probably either attack people in rage or burn the building down in happiness
S7E15: Michael leaves without paying at the Chinese restaurant; Creed is also listed on the wall of diners who did not pay for their meal
S7E17: Michael most likely did not have permits to film in some of the locations featured in Threat Level Midnight; multiple characters in Michael’s film are seen using guns (you do not need a permit to have a gun in your home or business place in Pennsylvania, but multiple characters concealed their weapons during the film, though the guns are likely fake); a mannequin of Toby is blown up during Michael’s film (depending on the type of explosive used, certification may be required); during the hockey scene of the film, Michael comments that it was filmed during an actual Scranton High hockey game (could be seen as defiant trespassing and/or disorderly conduct)
S7E18: Packer humps Michael and Dwight while they’re underneath a desk; Dwight throws away Holly’s zen garden; Dwight offers Packer a hot chocolate laced with many laxatives (depending on the amount, it could be considered assault or even homicide since extreme dehydration could kill someone); Andy purposely does damage to his computer’s keyboard and hard drive; Andy and Pam slightly damage Andy’s new computer; Jim and Dwight pretend to be Sabre employees and tell Packer he can jump the gate at Jo’s house
S7E19: Ryan uses Phyllis and Oscar’s faces on his mom’s pesto and salsa recipes (would fall under right of publicity laws); Ryan adds a Kosher certification onto his mom’s pesto recipe (against FDA regulations); Michael pours gasoline all over the parking lot; Michael wants to steal a corpse from a medical school to use in his proposal to Holly
S7E20: Michael eggs Toby’s house; Kevin colors on a restaurant tablecloth with crayons; Ryan admits to have done drugs in the past
S7E21: Gabe confronts Andy and threatens him to stay away from Erin (could be considered criminal threatening); Deangelo claims that he caught the person who stole one of Jo’s dogs
S7E24: Dwight accidentally fires his gun through the floor; Meredith claims that during the shooting she lost her necklace, a ring, and a painting and will be reporting it to the insurance company; Ryan claims that Dwight’s accident felt like an act of terrorism; Pam claims that Dwight has hidden more weapons in the office
S7E25: Creed parks his car in the middle of the parking lot
S7E26: Dwight admits that he would have created a fake identity for his character of Jacques Souvenier if Jo had hired him as manager
S8E1: Dwight uses a fire extinguisher to knock Meredith off of the top of a bathroom stall, drops a ream of paper on a warehouse employee’s head to get him off a table, and flips a table over to get Toby off of it; Dwight throws Jim’s phone against the wall with force and a shatter is heard; Dwight instigates a fight between nearly everyone in the office
S8E2: Andy says he will streak across the parking lot if the office accrues enough points
S8E3: Dwight pours his drink on the inside of someone’s car; Oscar smashes the car’s window and brake light with a crowbar; Dwight drives the baler through the warehouse wall; Erin and Kevin spread grease all over the warehouse floor; Dwight, Jim, Erin, and Kevin damage multiple boxes of paper
S8E4: Dunder Mifflin billboards across town are shown to be vandalized; Mose crashes Toby’s car into a corn field; Mose very tightly lines up everyone’s cars so that he can run across the roofs (he likely made scratches and dents while planning and executing this plan)
S8E5: Dwight is shown to have brought many weapons into the office in the past as part of Halloween costumes and threatened to kill Toby with them (though the weapons were never concealed and Toby usually confiscated them before he entered the office
S8E6: Oscar stated in an email that he believes that Robert has strangled at least one stripper; Kelly states in an email that they should kill Robert; Dwight’s accountability booster is dangerously close to a form of blackmail; Gabe says that he is going to go to a cemetery and drink (it’s actually illegal to drink in most cemeteries); Pam stops Kevin from hitting Dwight over the head with a frying pan; Jim takes Robert’s phone and attempts to deletes an email (technically illegal to use someone’s phone without their permission)
S8E7: Dwight repeatedly grabs Jim’s crotch
S8E8: A Civil War informational video reveals that the soldiers from Schrute Farm were soldiers that went AWOL
S8E9: When Dwight suggests that everyone in the office is in a suicide cult, Creed strongly denies it, implying that he probably is in one; Jim leaves his car running and unattended in the middle of the parking lot
S8E10: Dwight punches Jim in the arm; Erin asks Andy for Jessica to die; Meredith threatens to drive drunk if Andy doesn’t drive her home; Meredith rides in the back of her van without a seatbelt on
S8E11: Andy asks Oscar to add $800 to their quarterly sales, implying it could be seen as a rounding error; Kevin offers to make that rounding error for Andy
S8E12: Jim drives over Robert’s lawn and breaks his mailbox
S8E15: Jim creates a fake murder scene in his hotel room for Dwight which involved stained towels, knocked over and possibly broken furniture, a writing on the door; Dwight threatens to light Jim’s face on fire; Dwight leaves the hospital with his IV solution bag, which implies he likely didn’t pay for his visit before leaving
S8E16: Gabe sprays an inhaler into Packer’s drink; Dwight damages his hotel room keycard; Dwight sprays a compound of chemicals in Jim’s hotel room creating what he claims is a biohazard
S8E17: Multiple homeless people are sleeping on the sidewalk outside the Sabre store (it’s usually only illegal for homeless individuals to sleep on the sidewalk if a shelter is available); Dwight tells Packer that he should act like a sexual predator when talking to the female teenage customers; a group of children throw pinecones at Andy and Pam, and one of them punches Andy in the face resulting in a black eye; Creed strikes the back of Meredith’s head; Ryan calls his uncle to get a prescription for Ritalin; Kelly attacks Toby and then accidentally elbows Andy in the face
S8E18: Dwight leaves a treasure chest in the office which fires a poisoned dart upwards at whomever opens it; Jim and Dwight tackle and punch each other; Kevin forcibly kisses Meredith
S8E19: Darryl drags Dwight out of his office by his hair; Andy tosses a container of eggplant parmesan onto the street; Andy leaves his car unattended in the middle of an intersection
S8E20: Dwight offers to hit Nellie with a candlestick; Jessica’s friends throw food at Andy’s car
S8E21: Andy smashes the frame holding a picture of Nellie; Andy punches another hole into the wall
S8E22: Andy loiters at the office parking lot
S8E23: Dwight and Jim create a fake identity to work around the commission cap (Dwight even admits that it’s extremely similar to embezzlement or fraud); Harry threatens to choke out Toby; Dwight tells Jim he should dent the hood of Harry’s car or slash the tires; Dwight attempts to activate the elevator’s seismic failsafes to stop the elevator; Pam steals Nellie’s phone and deletes all of her voicemails (technically illegal to use someone’s phone without their permission); Andy tells Robert if he doesn’t hire him back, he will give Prestige Direct Mail Solutions’ business to a competitor (technically blackmail)
S8E24: Kevin and Robert accidentally head butt each other; Andy mops the carpets, likely damaging them; Dwight steals Philip’s used diaper so he can have a paternity test done (this is called gene theft); Angela and Dwight both speed and drive recklessly; Angela hits Mose multiple times; Dwight and Mose both leave their cars unattended in the middle of the street; Robert forcibly kisses Andy; Dwight forces himself on Angela (though seconds later she is a willing participant)
S9E1: Andy threatens to make up a reason to fire Nellie (since Toby is aware of this, if Nellie were to sue Andy, Toby would have to testify against him); Andy purposely pushes Nellie off of the slack-lining rope; Dwight deconstructs Dunder Mifflin equipment to create his trapeze set; Dwight gets stuck on the slack-line and the fire department has to come to get him down; Andy places all of the recycling bins near Nellie and has people throw their trash at her
S9E2: While the building’s janitor is on vacation, the building becomes incredibly dirty to the point where rats can be seen (likely against multiple health codes); Nellie forces Dwight into a situation where he has to chop off her hand (though he doesn’t go through with it)
S9E3: Nellie drives recklessly; Nellie uses her phone while driving
S9E4: Dwight and Toby find EMF hotspots in the office which could imply that there’s poor wiring in the building (depending on how bad the wiring actually is, this could actually break laws); Stanley threatens to spank Clark; Dwight drives the work bus (depending on the type of bus it was, Dwight would need a certain license to drive it); Phyllis asks someone to just start driving the bus while Dwight is on the roof; Dwight drops himself through the rooftop emergency exit on the bus onto Jim; Dwight drives the bus recklessly
S9E5: Creed comes into the office with blood stains all over his clothes (it likely was not his blood, so he may have harmed someone); Andy reveals he had sex with a snowman while at Cornell (would fall under public indecency); Dwight catches Meredith in a net and causes her to fall to the floor
S9E6: Kevin leaves his car in the middle of the parking lot so he can run to the bathroom; Oscar forges documents to make it looks like Kevin has been taking money from Dunder Mifflin; Nellie, Jim, Pam, and Darryl create a situation where Dwight believes that police have surrounded David’s house; Pete’s friend Flipper once drunkenly flipped a table over at a bar
S9E7: Dwight claims he used to have a barber who fought dogs and made dogs fight each other; Clark is used as leverage by Dwight to get Jan’s business (this trade would be dangerously close to prostitution)
S9E8: Dwight reveals that Trevor has had numerous guns stolen from him; Angela hires Trevor to murder Oscar; Dwight claims he has left poop in a paper bag on people’s porches (would be classified as vandalism); Trevor claims that people have left poop in a bag on his porch multiple times; Angela asks Trevor to break Oscar’s kneecaps instead; Trevor brings a concealed weapon into the office; Phyllis taps a stranger on the back with the sharp end of a knife; Phyllis forcibly removes a decorative wine bottle from its base; Angela kicks Oscar in the shin
S9E9: Dwight hits Oscar and Jim with a stick; Darryl collapses on a table and breaks it in half
S9E10: Dwight throws his coffee cup up in the air, likely staining the carpet; Dwight sprays a disinfectant in Erin, Pam, Angela, and Meredith’s faces; Erin tackles Stanley; Meredith reveals that one of her exes keyed a bunch of people’s cars; Meredith also reveals that she pooped into an office shredder; Dwight accidentally sets off an insecticidal grenade (I don’t believe there is a real insecticidal grenade but I’m sure there’s some law against either setting one off or doing so with people nearby); Angela hits Oscar in the head with a coffee pot; Kevin misuses one of the warehouse machines and causes it to break; Dwight accidentally sets off another insecticidal grenade in his car (he most likely still drove his car after while experiencing hallucinogenic side effects)
S9E11: Jim is seen driving a motorcycle (Jim likely did not have a motorcycle license); Dwight suggests that Jim should drive 240 miles per hour so he can get to the office faster; Creed steals Phyllis’ ring; Kevin forcibly lifts Angela up multiple times; Darryl misses a basketball hoop and accidentally breaks a wall lamp and electrocutes a fish tank (though Darryl agreed to pay for the damage); multiple people in the office tear up the carpet flooring
S9E12: Dwight rips open a couch cushion with a knife; Dwight drives one of the delivery trucks (he likely does not have a license to drive the truck); Dwight throws a milkshake through the drive-thru window at an employee; a customer in the drive-thru throws a milkshake at Dwight
S9E13: Dwight reveals that Rolf uses hand grenades to fish; Mose is seen running in the middle of the street (could be considered jaywalking); Dwight reveals that when he was a child, he went to a school that was run by a conman; one of Dwight’s friends reveals that the school used the students as labor; Melvina reveals that she’s been double parked for about two hours; Dwight gives the sales rep applicants Jim’s home address so they can toilet paper it; Rolf tells Dwight to be weary of any suspicious packages he may get, implying that he’ll be sending him potentially dangerous packages; Dwight attempts to suffocate Clarke
S9E14: Frank vandalizes Pam’s warehouse mural; Angela hits Oscar; Dwight and Pam vandalize Frank’s truck; Frank rushes at Pam with the intent to hit her; Brian hits Frank in the face with his boom mic
S9E15: Meredith suggests that everyone in the office should try cocaine
S9E16: Dwight’s Aunt Shirley slaps Angela; Andy snoops through Erin’s phone; Andy kicks Toby; Angela accidentally sets off the hose on Dwight (the hose likely has the same pressure as a firehose, which is about 150 PSI, so this could be considered assault); Toby leaves the prison wearing a neck brace after visiting the Scranton Stranger, implying the Strangler attempted to strangled him;
S9E17: Dwight throws dirt in the faces of Erin, Phyllis, Kevin, Oscar, Meredith, Angela, Stanley, Pam and Jim; Dwight’s brother Jeb drives his car into Aunt Shirley’s grave; Packer reveals he’s in Narcotics Anonymous, implying he used to use drugs; Dwight reveals that his family members have accidentally buried family members who were thought to be dead but were actually in deep sleep; Dwight unloads a shotgun into his aunt’s corpse; Jeb reveals that he owns a worm farm in California (medical marijuana was not legalized in California until 2018); Packer reveals that the cupcakes he gave out to everyone in the office, as well as to Jim and Darryl were laced with drugs, some legal and some not; Packer is seen having parked his car halfway between a handicapped spot and a do-not-park zone; Clarke reveals that while drugged, he defected in some bushes
S9E18: Dwight dumps a bucket of water onto Phyllis, and is likely the same person who dumped a bucket of water onto Andy as well (technically would be classified as assault); Meredith exposes her breasts in the office; Angela slaps Oscar
S9E19: Dwight shoots Stanley with three tranquilizers meant for a bull (horse tranquilizers can cause serious harm to humans, and a bull tranquilizer likely has a higher dosage); Meredith squirts some of the bull tranquilizer into her drink (probably not illegal since she put it into her own drink, but it would be classified as placing a foreign object into an edible, which is actually a felony); Dwight and Clarke accidentally slam Stanley’s unconscious body into two walls; while sliding down a flight of stairs, Stanley’s unconscious body makes a dent in the wall; Andy kicks over an empty trash can; a man at the talent agency claims that through his dog-cat-mouse act, he goes through a lot of mice (allowing your pet to eat live animals can be considered animal cruelty); Stanley tranquilizes himself so that he doesn’t have to climb the stairs
S9E20: Creed smashes a melon on the warehouse floor; Pam accidentally hits Toby in the eye with a paper airplane; Erin reveals that when she was in the orphanage, she once ripped Susan’s pigtails off of her head; Erin crushes a box of packing peanuts; Clarke asks Pam and Jim to share the drugs he think they’re high on; Angela is seen taking rolls of toilet paper from the office
S9E21: Lackawanna County takes away “two sacks” worth of Angela’s cats because she is violating her apartment complex’s pet rules; Dwight throws his briefcase and hits multiple items; Dwight nearly kicks and punches multiple in the office; Andy asks Toby to falsify files; Andy attempts to grope Toby; Andy dedicates on David’s car (this would be classified as vandalism and public indecency);
S9E22: Dwight reveals that his grandmother was shot by Adolph Coors; Dwight throws the summoning bag against the back of Jim’s head; Casey Dean jumps on the back of the a cappella show host; Meredith spanks Darryl; Dwight is seen driving with his police light on his car; Dwight drives recklessly
S9E23: Dwight reveals that Creed faked his own death; Dwight also reveals that the police are looking for Creed as he sold drugs, trafficked endangered animal meat, and stole weapons-grade LSD from the military; Oscar reveals that Kevin used to make up numbers to balance the books; Mose kidnaps Angela and locks her in his trunk for three hours; Creed changes his identity; Ryan reveals that his partner abandoned him and their child; Ryan purposely gives his son an allergic reaction; Kelly and Ryan abandon his son with Ravi; Nellie takes Ryan’s son as her own child (she didn’t legally adopt him so this would be considered child abduction); Pam attempts to sell their home without Jim’s knowledge (since Jim bought the house as a surprise, his name is likely on the deed as well and Pam wouldn’t be able to sell it without him); Kevin spills alcohol all over a cabinet while filling up glasses

Let me just say I am loving the generations and fame additions. Next up though I feel we should have an update that just focuses on the features already in the game and making them better. Some suggestions for such... bear with me, this is a fairly long list:
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1. 👨🏻‍🦱 - I’d love for the ability to select a custom character’s race, and their starting stats (looks, smarts, etc) as well. Also, I’d love to select which country they appear in, cause it’s weird to have a friend named “Bob” pop up in China.
2. 🌎 - We should have the ability to adopt children from nations other than the one you’re living in, or have someone who immigrated from a foreign country periodically pop up as a date option.
3. 🏠 - The ability to rent out houses, as well as to rent rather than buy houses of your own — also, I’d love for the following house type to be added: greenhouse (an environmentally friendly house with lots of glass and solar panels).
4. 🛥 - More assets beyond houses and cars, like the ability to buy a phone, yacht, or private plane. Also the ability to use vehicle assets, like click on a car and “take it for a spin,” or go on vacation with a private plane.
5. 🎰 - New casino mini games, such as roulette and a slot machine.
6. 🎥 - More movie genre options, like horror 👻, fantasy 🏰, or adult 😏. Also, the option to buy concessions, like have “go see movie with concessions” and “w/o” options, picking the latter option adds 4% to happiness, but drains bank account and possibly health.
7. 🏜 - Idea for vacations: alongside being able to travel to cities, have also the option to travel to landmarks, like Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Mount Everest, Great Wall of China, and more.
8. ⛓ - The ability to contact family members while in prison by phone, perhaps up to a max of four or five per year, just so your relationship bars with them don’t just dwindle till your release. Also be able to have visits if you’ve had “good behavior.”
9. 🐠 - I’m quite satisfied with pet options especially with the last update, though there are two I’d still love added: platypuses and blue tang fish (yes I want my own Perry and Dory).
10. ☠️ - I’d love if in the cemetery, gravestones from the same family lineage were grouped together as one slot in the list, like as the “Johnson Legacy” for example.
11. ✈️ - If you immigrate to a different country, you should have the option to fly back for any funerals of family members. Also, if you go on vacation to the city you emigrated from, the relationship bars of any family members still there should go up.
12. 🏙 - The ability to move to a different city within the same country, and also have a chance for your parents to move you around during your childhood (many kids don’t stay in one place, after all😉).
13. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 - More family interactions. “Play a Game♟” for example which would have the chance to raise the relationship bar, or lower it if the game gets heated. Also, for your lover exclusively, the option to “send a suggestive pic📱” with the chance they’ll either respond well or poorly to it.
14. ⛪️ - Parents’ religiousness should have a bigger impact on childhood. The possibility a super religious parent would disapprove of your lover for example, or that they may try to set you up with one. They could also argue with you if you have a teen pregnancy.
15. 👥 - The chance of having more than one older sibling upon starting a new life. The chance of having quads when having children (slim, but a chance), and the very slim chance to be born as part of a set of triplets or quads.
16. 👩🏻‍🦰 - More character icon looks. The chance of having straight 👨 or curly 👨‍🦱 hair. The chance of being born as a redhead 👨‍🦰, which would vary by country. Also, in Muslim countries, women characters should use the hijab 🧕 emoji.
17. 🧘‍♂️ - More mind + body options.
• To raise smarts, options like “complete a puzzle 🧩” or “read a nonfiction book 📒”
• To raise happiness and health, options like “go golfing 🏌️” or “read a novel 📚”
• To raise looks, options like “go for a jog 🏃‍♂️” or “take a shower 🧖‍♂️”
18. 🤰 - If abortion is illegal in the country you’re in, you should still be able to try and get one, with two options: “Safe abortion,” which would have chance of arrest, or “unsafe abortion,” which wouldn’t have chance of arrest, but chance of injury or death. Also, men shouldn’t be able to force women to have abortions.
19. 👨‍👦 - If you continue on as your child after you die, and your child is retired, it should show their occupation as retired, not unemployed, and their prior occupation should appear on their gravestone when they die.
20. 💴 - More diversity with currency symbols. Countries like Japan and China, which use the Yen and Yuan respectively, should use the “¥” symbol.
21. 🏥 - Healthcare should be free at point of service in countries with universal healthcare systems, like the U.K., Canada, or Sweden. Also, there should be a chance that a child of yours gets sick in their childhood, especially if you don’t vaccinate, and you have to take them to a doctor.
22. 🎫 - Sometimes you get pop ups involving concerts, but there should also be an option in activities to go to one. Similar to vacations, it would have a drop down menu of artists to choose from, as well as option to choose class of seats, and how many people to take with you.
23. 🐶 - A new interaction with pets should be the ability to “train them,” which would make their smarts go up every so often.
24. 🌙 - A dark mode for those of us who play at night. Seen this idea pop up elsewhere, so figured I’d reiterate it.
25. 📜 - More options with the will, like the ability to leave it to grandkids and the ability to select who to pass on houses, cars or pets to plus have them passed on separate from your bank balance, like have one kid get the house and another get the bank money.
26. 😇 - Show the Karma bar in stats, and add options like “give to charity” into the game as a means to raise it. Also, and this is an entirely new idea, I think it’d be cool if your level of karma at death affects your stats in your next life. :)
27. 🇺🇳 - New countries! Ideas for such: Iceland, Poland, Switzerland, Lithuania, Thailand, Mongolia, Pakistan, Nepal, Madagascar, Morocco, D.R. of the Congo, and Fiji. (My personal top three desires are Thailand, Mongolia, and D.R. of the Congo).
28. 🇺🇸 - I’ve seen a lot of “Sweet Home Alabama” types on the BitLife page, so I propose a new city for the United States: Montgomery, Alabama. Also, I’d love for Honolulu, Anchorage, New Orleans, and Salt Lake City to be added.
29. 🏀 - More stuff with sports.
• Sometimes you see things like “you took X to a football game” for example, so that should be an option in activities. You’d have different sports to choose, like genres of movies, such as football, baseball, soccer, or cricket. Also, the option to take family members with you.
• Secondly, now that we have fame, we should definitely have a professional sports career added into jobs, as well as a sports degree added to university (that would be so fitting with the new option to buy kids into university).
30. ⚫️ - More job options! I’ve already made a list of this (here: Jobs Ideas but to highlight a few:
• 🍭 - Candy Store Worker
• ♥️ - Cardiologist
• 🎞 - Film Maker
• ⛏/⚱️ - Miner (Coal/Gold)
• Also, the pro sports career which I listed earlier.
31. 👺 - More crime options!
• Kidnapping (👶) as one. It would make a child appear in your relationships section (similar to cars in assets with stealing cars), they’d start out at 0 with their relationship bar, and you’d have the option to choose how to interact with them. Obviously, each year (until they turn 18) you’d have chance of being arrested, or being arrested right off the bat.
• Hire a Hitman (🔫) as an alternative to murdering someone yourself. You’d have several choices for hire, and the more money you pay, the better the odds of success and (more importantly) not getting caught.
• Embezzlement (👔) - steal something from your place of work and then sell it to make money. Your place of work would determine what’s up for grabs, like if you’re a pharmacist for example, you could sell drugs.
• Robbery Options - have option to select what type of building to rob alongside a house. Add in the option to rob a bank or store.
32. 🎀 - New ribbons!!
• Gold Digger (⚱️) - marry only wealthy partners, make at least $10M from divorce settlements or their inheritances.
• Debtor (🤐) - take out loans whenever given the option, such as for university, when buying a house and car, etc. Die with a negative net worth of at least -$1M.
• Foolhardy (🍀) - win a lottery prize of at least $1M before age 40, squander it all on extravagant purchases, die before age 80 with a negative net worth and depression.
• R Rated (👠) - become a pornographer, get famous, only ever do nude related things in “fame” section of activities, go clubbing a lot, always hook up whenever given the chance, get happy ending for massages whenever given chance too. In general, be a dirty person.
• Darwinist (🦁) - have at least ten instances of a pet eating another pet during your lifetime, and always reward the pet whenever they do it.
• Father and Son (👨‍👦) - live a life as a male and continue as your son after you die. Live that son’s life in a very similar manner. Get the same occupation, the same type of house, get married if your father was married, etc.
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That is all, but yes, in general an update that focuses on enhancing and expanding existing features as opposed to one that adds a whole new concept I think should be next in line. There’s just so much that could be done :) comment your thoughts and ideas below👇

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I am looking to plan my brothers bachelor party. We are aiming for about a year from right now. Niagara Falls is a decent distant from us (3ish hours) and I've always heard positive things about the area.
What are some good group ideas in the city or neighboring areas? Restaurants/Bars/Breweries? Casinos? Adult Entertainment? We are a pretty open book
Thanks!

I know that I had been abused since the day I was born. My biological mother didn't want her oldest to be her daughter, she wanted a son. She manipulated me into looking and acting like a boy, which made me lash out and in turn get tortured verbally by other kids my entire elementary school career. I moved in with my dad, who was more strict on me since, as I have repeatedly been told, I was a really REALLY bad kid. Like, tear the legs off a spider to watch it squirm and drown ants repeatedly kind of bad kid.
So this was up in New York, and I was left home alone a lot while my dad and ex step-mother blew everything at casinos. Recently I found out that's considered child-neglect. We lived in a nice house in a somewhat sketchy neighborhood 15 minutes from Niagara Falls. Then we moved to Arkansas, where I had to live with my Nana for a while. Come to find out my ex step-mom was cheating on my dad with her boss, and she left. That's when things slowly started to go down-hill.
My already bad trust issues and social skills spiraled down into damn-near completely introverted, where I was 12 years old and had panic attacks at the thought of going to the mall with just my new step-sister and no parental supervision. My dad got hooked up with his high school sweetheart and I finally learned what it was like to be not just simply looked after, but treated well.
But my dad had been hurt a lot by my biological mother and ex step-mother, so much so that he started to take it out on my new step-mom. It started as simple misunderstandings, but it turned into full-blown (sometimes physical) fights. I tried to intervene since I had become a very good neutral party when it came to disputes between my small group of internet friends, but when my dad snapped my phone in half and threw my glasses across the yard (which took ten minutes to find since I can't see farther than 3 inches away from my face), I stopped trying.
Ever so slowly, dad started dragging us kids into the fights too, forcing me to choose between the two parents and forcing my distrusting mindset away from my parents to solely on my friends. It was then when I stopped truely feeling empathy for other people and saw them as simply potential stepping-stones to secure a better future for myself, one that didn't involve them.
I can feign feelings, I've gotten so good at it that I fooled my therapist. Hell, when I got to the step in my plan where my step-mom adopts me so I can forcibly rip my biological mother and her family out of my life, I tricked the judge into thinking that my household was perfect by excelling in school, to the point that when we were heard a second time, which I technically was in the 11th grade then, I bore a ring that had shown the graduating class an entire year early than I would've graduated, had I not jumped on the chance to get the rest of my credits at a local college.
But now, even as I type this post, my father has ordered me to refer to him by his first name, told me he hated me, and practically disowned me since I found my rabbits and other responsibilities here more important than leaving with him to live in the woods. I haven't told my father that I hated him in well-over a decade, since I didn't want to do anything I would regret later. I shoved my angry feelings and pride aside to tell him that I loved him, even as he insisted that I didn't when he dropped me off at school in years past.
Am I wrong for not actually loving him anymore? Am I wrong for using him as a stepping-stone to get as far away from my family as possible? Is it wrong of me to, instead of feel like I'm being torn in half every time he tells me to pick a parent, feel nothing and choose my adopted mom and the responsibilities (and internet) that comes with her? I've tried to get other people's opinions on this, but no one listens. I can't get help, and I can't run. Not while I'm so close to finally getting what I've always wanted.
Should I bide my time and wait the next four years to pass? Or should I run to live with my boyfriend (who I met in real life but lives in another state) as soon as I have the money?

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What are you most looking forward to for the month of February?
Please include links to the event info if possible.

• Fri February 1
  • 10 AM – 11:30 AM Olean Public Library Nutrition and Parenting Skills Workshop
  • 10:30 AM – 12 PM Allegany State Park Cross Country Ski Tours at Allegany State Park
  • 11 AM – 12 PM Bradford Area Public Library Story Seekers
  • 5 PM – 9 PM Grand Slam Games & Comics Friday Night Magic - Modern
  • 7 PM – 10:30 PM Balloons Restaurant & Nightclub Darkwater Duo
  • 8 PM – 11 PM Union Whiskey John Grey returns to Friday night at Union Whiskey 2/1/19 at 8PM
  • 8 PM – 12 AM The Pub Karaoke Night at The Pub
  • 9:30 PM Madigan's Ellicottville NY Soular Plexus at Madigans, Eliicottville
  • 9:30 PM – 12:30 AM The City Line MMOC at City Line, Feb. 1st
  • 10 PM – 1 AM Balloons Restaurant & Nightclub Balloons w/ Evan Dillon (solo)
• Sat February 2
  • 6 AM – 10 PM Holiday Valley Resort Holiday Valley Ski Trip
  • 7:30 AM – 10 AM Cuba American Legion Auxiliary Post # 655 Monthly All You Can Eat Breakfast
  • 8:30 AM – 10 AM Cuba VFW Post #2721 Scout week Pancake Breakfast
  • 9 AM – 3 PM Skin Tight Studio and Salon Psychic Event
  • 9 AM – 4 PM Allegany State Park Saturday, Red House Picnic Shelter
  • 9:30 AM – 11 AM Cuba Circulating Library Pancakes & PJs
  • 10 AM - 11:30 AM Pfeiffer Nature Center Exploring Winter with Pfeiffer Nature Center
  • 10 AM – 12 PM Ischua Valley Country Club Franklinville Little League Baseball and Softball signups
  • 11 AM – 6 PM Holiday Valley Resort Holiday Valley Alumni Ski Event
  • 12 PM – 12:50 PM Heart Shaped Paws Dog Training Group Puppy Class
  • 2 PM – 2:50 PM Heart Shaped Paws Dog Training Group Basic Obedience Level 2
  • 2 PM – 6 PM Eldred American Legion Post 887 Spaghetti Dinner
  • 3 PM – 3:50 PM Heart Shaped Paws Dog Training Group Basic Obedience Level 1
  • 3 PM – 7 PM Ellicottville Distillery Groundhog Day at Ellicottville Distillery
  • 3:30 PM – 6 PM E-Ville Spirits and Wines Free Wine Tasting
  • 3:30 PM – 7:30 PM Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino Back to Rock the River Bar!
  • 4:30 PM – 9:30 PM Eldred Borough VFD BINGO
  • 6 PM – 8 PM Adventure Bound onthefly Group Snowshoe Hike
  • 6 PM – 9:30 PM Balloons Restaurant & Nightclub The Charlie Wheeler Band
  • 6 PM – 10 PM Salamanca American Legion Straight Shooter Returns to the Salamanca Legion
  • 6:30 PM – 9 PM Lewis Run Fire Dept Cabin Fever Movie Night
  • 7 PM – 8 PM Lavender Lotus Yoga New Moon Mystic YOGA Series
  • 7 PM – 10 PM The Palmer Rescheduled: Piano Rock
  • 8:30 PM – 11:30 PM Hammer Back Bar & Grill Late Night Acoustic feat Brianna Blankenship and Brad Vincent
  • 9 PM – 12 AM Union Whiskey The Haight Street Gamblers wsg/ The Wonderful Operonicon 2/2/19
  • 9 PM – 1 AM St. Stephen's Club Rock The St. Stephens Club
  • 9 PM – 1 AM The Gin Mill, Ellicottville NY Hintz Of Thunder At The Gin Mill
  • 9 PM – 2 AM The City Line Karaoke Night at the City Line
  • 10 PM – 1 AM Balloons Restaurant & Nightclub Qwister / Winter Residency / Balloon's Back Bar / Feb 2nd
• Sun February 3
  • 8 AM – 11:30 AM Episcopal Church of the Ascension - Bradford Souper Bowl of Caring
  • 9:30 AM – 10 AM Four Mile Brewing Run Love Is One Love Pub Run
  • 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM New Life Fellowship - Bradford Football Sunday 2019
  • 12 PM – 3 PM The Spca In Cattaraugus County Valentine's Photos at the Cattaraugus Co. SPCA
  • 1 PM – 3 PM Quinn's Wake CCLP February Meeting
  • 2 PM – 4 PM The Palmer Back In The Day with Kirk McWhorter
  • 3 PM – 11 PM Players Downtown Super Bowl Party & Sunday Funday
  • 3 PM – 11 PM Villaggio Super Sunday
  • 5 PM Finnerty's Tap Room EVL’s Official Super Bowl Party
  • 5 PM – 9 PM Open Arms Community Church OA Annual Big Game Party
  • 5:45 PM Hillside Wesleyan Church Super Football Sunday
• Mon February 4
  • 10 AM – 10:30 AM Cuba Circulating Library Baby Storytime
  • 11 AM – 12 PM Bradford Area Public Library Story Seekers
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Olean Public Library Teen Craft (ages 13-18)
  • 5:03 PM – 8:03 PM Main Street Movie House Boy Erased
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Allegany State Park Allegany State Park Fat Bike Ride
  • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Olean Public Library Investigation Stations
  • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Cuba Circulating Library Anime Club
  • 7 PM – 8 PM Lavender Lotus Yoga Prenatal Yoga and Mamas' Tea Circle
• Tue February 5
  • 10 AM – 11 AM Olean Public Library Stories and More
  • 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Health Careers Job Fair
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Olean Public Library J-Pop Club (Ages 13-18)
  • 4:30 PM – 6 PM Allegany State Park Sunset Snowshoe Hike
  • 6 PM – 8 PM Olean Public Library Leave No Trace (Best of 2018 Film Series)
  • 7 PM – 8 PM Pitt-Bradford Arts Erth's Prehistoric Aquarium Adventure
  • 7 PM – 9 PM The Palmer Team Trivia Nght
• Wed February 6
  • 10 AM – 11 AM Olean Public Library Mother Goose Storytime
  • 12 PM – 1 PM Positive Moves Consulting Wellness Wednesday
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Olean Public Library Investigation Stations
  • 6 PM – 7 PM Bradford Area Public Library Evening Storytime
  • 6 PM – 7:30 PM Allegany State Park Outdoor Adventure Cross Country Ski and Social at ASP
  • 6 PM – 9 PM Union Whiskey Double Trouble ~ Dave & Andy Wednesday Feb 6th 6:00PM
  • 7 PM – 8:15 PM Lavender Lotus Yoga Wednesday Night Ashtanga Flow
• Thu February 7
  • 10 AM – 11 AM Olean Public Library Stories and Stretches
  • 12 PM – 1 PM Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce L&L: Self-Defense for Business People
  • 4:30 PM – 11:30 PM Bradford Travel - Niagara Scenic Tours CATS at Shea's - a Bradford Travel Motorcoach Journey
  • 5:15 PM – 7:15 PM Hammer Back Bar & Grill Olean Area Young Professionals' February 2019 Networking Event
  • 5:30 PM – 9 PM The Palmer Open Mic Night - Live Music
  • 6 PM – 7 PM Four Mile Brewing Science On Tap "Teaching Online at St. Bonaventure"
  • 6 PM – 7:30 PM Salamanca City Central School District 2nd Grade Concert
  • 6 PM – 8 PM Don's semi Friendly Tavern Drinks & Painting at Don's Friendly Tavern!
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• Fri February 8
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• Sat February 9
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• Sun February 10
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• Tue February 12
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• Wed February 13
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• Thu February 14
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• Fri February 15
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• Sat February 16
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• Sun February 17
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• Mon February 18
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• Tue February 19
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• Wed February 20
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• Thu February 21
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• Fri February 22
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• Sat February 23
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• Mon February 25
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[storymode]
Matt spent the night wandering the streets, looking for some reason he was in Niagara Falls. If she sent me here, it must be for a reason, right? he thought to himself. He felt an air of dread, as if something was trailing him.
A rustle. He whipped his head around. It was a squirrel. His instincts were taking over. Back when he lived on the streets, they were all he had. All that kept him safe. Instinctively, he touched his side. He traced his hands up his left side, and then his right. The scars were reminders that he wasn't the top of the food chain. He had to be smart.
He decided to duck into an alley and climbed a fire escape. He reached a building that overlooked the main casino area. He held his hands out and summoned binoculars. He was getting better at summoning some of these small objects. He held the binoculars up to his eyes and scanned.
Bingo. He saw something he instantly recognized. A group of empousai. Through the Mist it was hard to see if that's what they really were, but he could definitely make out their mismatched legs. He watched them enter the Fallsview Casino, and nodded, letting his binoculars vanish.
If anyone would know where the witches were, it would be these empousai. They were too involved to not know. He descended back to the street, and walked to the Fallsview. He used the Mist to give his old clothes the illusion that they were a fancy tuxedo.
He opened the casino doors, and a bouncer stopped him. Matt pulled out a card, and used the Mist to make it look like he had a driver's license showing his age was 21. "No more trouble, right?" Matt asked the bouncer, walking in.
He kept his senses alert, scanning for the empousai. Then he saw them. They sat around a poker table, playing among themselves, men fawning over them. "Another drink, princess?" one man asked. The empousa waved him off and the man shuffled away quickly. Then her eyes rested on Matt. Matt glared at her, but a smile just crept across her face.
"Alright, boys. Go back to your wives," said the head empousa, waving the rest of them off. "Look who came to see us, girls! The doomed seed of Magic!"
Matt maintained a calm composure. He kept himself on alert, and sat down at the poker table. "I know who holds your leash," he speaks coldly, his voice like a knife. It cuts a chord. The head empousa, for a moment, is surprised. Then she begins to laugh.
"Of course you do. She is the reason you have powers, after all. Your mother," she says, a sly smile forming.
Matt shakes his head once, before looking back at her. "Enough your bullshit. I know who you're working for, who's been sending you monsters after me. And I'm going to kill them." he says, his voice growing cold once again. He couldn't afford to be weak right now.
"Of course you do. But have you considered why they want you? The sister witches want your blood? It's all for your mother. She's the reason you're on this quest, the reason why you spent your life on the street." Matt eyes must have widened at the fact that she knew his history, because she snickered. "Have you ever wondered what your life would have been like had she not have been your mother? You could have had friends, a true life."
Matt ignored that thought. He never knew his mother, but always pictured her watching over him. Sending him his visions of the future when he needed them. His visions. His first power. "Center Island. The place I had my first vision. That's where they are." he said it with such confidence, he knew it had to be true.
These witches wanted him for his blood, the blood of Hecate. Why, he had no idea. But it had to do with his magic. He didn't know why, but he knew that if they were after his magic, they would go to the place that he got his first taste of magic. Maybe his power of prophecy was helping him with his conclusions, maybe it was his mother. But he knew it was true. He saw it on the empousa's face.
"Perfect. Thank you for the chat" Matt said, the slightest hints of a sly smile on his face.
She manages to speak as the others stay quiet "You're a dead man, you know? They'll kill you."
"Then I'll take them down with me. I don't intend to let them use me for whatever purposes," he said, staring her right in the eyes. "They want me for a sacrifice. For what exactly? Power? Visions of the future?"
The empousa whispered "Our mistress. Your mother."
Mother. She was involved somehow. Matt stored that information for later. Monsters had a tendency to do bad things in the name of the gods.
"Well, if you'd excuse me" he says, bending down for a moment, and discretely slipping Antonia's knife from the sheath on his ankle, into his sleeve. He gets up, and starts to walk, before turning around again. "I almost forgot!" he says, walking over to stand behind two empousai, the other three watching him. "I don't want them to know I'm coming," he says, a sly smirk spreading across his face, as he slips the knife out, and quickly slicing through the two monsters in front of him. Quickly, he jumped across the table, plunging his blade into another, and throwing a fireball at the fourth. Matt watched the dust settle, as the head empousa stares at him, seething in anger.
"Perhaps I should bring you to the witches myself," she snarls, before hurling herself at Matt.
If this was going to be a fight, he needed to get mortals out of the way. He ran, bursting through the door of the casino and into the street. As he ran, the roar of the falls got closer and closer. He kept running, and planning to make his stand in front of the falls.
It didn't work out that way. He ended up getting lost, running through a tour group. He made his way to the falls, but he lost track of the empousa.
He sheathed Antonia's dagger again, and he drew his sword. He had to be ready. Before he could swing, the empousa snarled, lunging at him. He would have fallen into the water if he hadn't grabbed the ledge. He hung there, a fire lit inside of him. He going to tear her apart.
"So close. But yet so far. I'll let you fall, and I'll pick your mangled body from the bottom of the lake. I'm sure there will be enough blood in you to be used. Perhaps, I'll even get rewarded with a fraction of your power!" she shrieks with glee.
A fraction of my power? Matt thinks. He'd kill her, and then worry about it.
Now or never he tells himself. He uses his upper body strength and propels himself up. Not enough to save himself, but enough to grab her and take her with him.
He grabs her neck with his hands, and gravity pulled them both down towards the bottom of the falls.

Hello, my lovelies! I told you I’d be back, and here I am.
This story isn’t nearly as epic as the Ratchet situation was, but it marked the beginning of a pattern wherein I’ve started losing my guy friends, one by one, when they start dating someone. Evidently because I’m single and don’t have a penis, I’m a threat. Not much dialogue in this one, mostly because when these people talk I hear the “whomp whomp whomp” sound of an adult in the Peanuts cartoons.
Cast of Characters
Me: 23 years old, female, and awesome.
Trinidad: My best friend and main bitch. Also 23. The most awesome person I have ever known in my life. Been friends for about 8 years now.
EasyD: Male, 25, Trinidad's boyfriend of 4 months. Most awesome guy ever. 10/10, would hang out with him again, and again and again.
Stoner: Male, 22, one of my best friends for 5 years. Does nothing with his life but sell pot. Cornerstone of our little group. Dated Trinidad for years, but now they're just friends.
StraightUpG: Male, 22, been friends with us for 4 years; was Turtle’s best friend for a while. Thinks he's a gangster. Main dealer's BFF. Historically has never dated a girl to our knowledge, though certainly not because he can't. Enjoys the chase. Never thought he'd settle down.
Monet: Female, 22 (I think), so named because, as Clueless explains, "From far away, it's OK, but up close, it's a big old mess." This analogy works both physically and mentally. Jealous hag, master of manipulation and functional alcoholic. Dated EasyD when he was first seeing Trinidad casually, and he ended it to be exclusive with Trinidad.
My group of friends is extremely close for being in our 20s as you may have noticed from my previous stories, and I know that's strange. The only explanation I can come up with is that when someone has seen you at your worst, at your best, and still loves you exactly the way you are, you want to keep a hold on those people. Those are the friendships from where godparents and wedding parties spring. Inevitably as most high school friendships evolve, there is some friendcest that no one takes seriously later in life. Everyone has stayed friends after, and new SOs don't care unless there was a serious relationship. In those instances reasonable boundaries are placed, everyone is trusted, everyone is happy.
Until this spring, that is.
The trouble began when Trinidad started dating EasyD in January. EasyD has a car, which neither Trinidad or I had at the time. He is very sweet about driving us if we need to go places on the weekends, and we always reciprocate by filling the gas tank. Everyone was happy, except Monet.
EasyD had been seeing Monet before he broke it off and decided to date Trinidad exclusively. Monet did not like this, as EasyD conveniently drove her ass everywhere so she didn't have to (god forbid!) board a bus. Because he's a nice guy, EasyD remained friends with her and they hung out every now and then. Trinidad was fine with this. What Trinidad was not fond of is Monet calling EasyD when they're on a date and badgering him to come pick her up so they can go drink at a bar. The two of them would be out eating dinner, and the phone calls would start. When he didn’t answer, she’d just continue calling until he did. For example:

Monet: Hi EasyD, what are you doing?
EasyD: I didn’t answer because we’re out for dinner. I need to call you back later.
Monet: Teehee, it’ll only take a second! What are you guys doing later? Do you want to go to Corral (a country bar in the next town over)? Some of my friends are going there tonight.
EasyD: Well maybe. We can meet you there.
Monet: Wait, you won’t pick me up?
EasyD: Well we’re already in that area, it would take half an hour to come back and get you.
Monet: (sounding as dejected as she can muster) Oh…. Well then I guess we’ll have out another time because I don’t have a ride…

This usually got her what she wanted. She never pitched for gas once.
On the occasions when EasyD and Trinidad relented and picked her up to hang out, Monet complained incessantly if she didn't get the front seat. Every time. I heard that and raised an eyebrow, but I couldn't judge, as I had not met her yet. Besides, she couldn't be expected to know that there's a shotgun hierarchy (SO, then best friend, then down it goes); her friends probably don't have a system like we do. She may just have car sickness. It's passable. Even never giving gas money isn't necessarily a problem if EasyD doesn't mind.
Right now we must veer into late February, when Trinidad, EasyD and StraightUpG were at my house drinking one cold Saturday night. For backstory, I have always kind of had a thing for StraightUpG. There were never any serious feelings and I would never date him in a million years, but I always sort of wanted to hook up with him at least once. Throughout our friendship I had dated both Turtle and JerBear, both of whom he was friends with. Eventually we became such good friends that I determined a hookup would be detrimental to our relationship, and discarded the thought. Except on this night, the night of pounding rum and tequila in rapid succession. We drank so fast that in the span of an hour, StraightUpG and I had deposited 10 shots each. I hadn't gotten this drunk since my 20th birthday, and it was glorious. Eventually, StraightUpG got closer to me. Sure enough, he moved in for a kiss and we made out for a few minutes. Trinidad looked like Christmas and her birthday came all at once; she often brought this situation up jokingly, and she was wishing she had popcorn to watch the spectacle. EasyD was talking to my roommates, oblivious as usual. After a few minutes I went down to my bedroom to use the bathroom. When I came out, StraightUpG was standing outside the door. We make out some more, and I'm thinking it's going to go pretty far as Trinidad bursts in to continue watching this train wreck. I told her to leave, and when she finally did I felt nauseous. So does StraightUpG. Both our stomachs rebel the liquor, and when we were finished we both passed out. We woke up in the morning and said little about it. I wrote off the thought of a hookup ever happening, because StraightUpG is a TERRIBLE kisser. Life went on.
A couple weeks after, there was a party at Trinidad's house. Along with StraightUpG and most of our friends, Monet arrived with some poor sap she had found to drive her there. She didn't seem like someone I would be friends with, but she was nice enough that night. We all got drunk and StraightUpG took an interest in Monet, who ignored her friend to hook up with StraightUpG. We are all amused and laugh it up the next morning. We had never seen him close a deal around us before. "What a player", we all agreed.
A few days later, Trinidad/EasyD/StraightUpG/Monet call me drunk from Niagara Falls, where they had decided on a whim to drive and go to the casino. EasyD paid for gas and hotel, as the rest were broke. They all won good money there. Trinidad quickly gives EasyD her share. StraightUpG and Monet ignored this gesture and spent some of their money. EasyD eventually got pissed and asked them to pitch towards the gas and hotel. They sighed dramatically and made a big deal about giving him $20. Wow, 20 whole dollars out of the $500 they won. Such a sacrifice. I heard this and got a bit indignant; StraightUpG had never been like that before, and Monet was using my friends shamelessly when she was barely acquaintances with them. This bugged me, but it wasn't my concern. However, I didn't really like her after this, and I made that clear to Trinidad. She agreed, but Monet was EasyD's friend, so neither of us said anything.
In early April, after StraightUpG and Monet started dating and become facebook official (to our shock and utter amusement), I began having a car on the weekends. My first order of business on Saturday was picking up Trinidad, who informed me that she had been roped into hanging out with Monet. EasyD was working, so we had to go pick her up if I was okay with it. I inwardly groaned, but it's for my best friend and I could deal with Monet for a few hours. Presumably because she had only met me once and I'm clearly not a pushover, Monet did not make a big deal about me making her sit in the back. Eventually, we got a hold of StraightUpG and picked him up. We had a nice day and ended up going to our usual pub for dinner, and everyone was dropped off without incident. Trinidad and I retired to my house, had a few drinks, and went to sleep. Early (for a weekend) the next morning, Trinidad got a BBM message.

Monet: "I need you to tell me the truth; has there ever been anything between BitchMagnets and StraightUpG? I noticed some chemistry yesterday."

I burst out laughing. Eventually I composed myself and called Monet myself. I explained the incident to her in full, and assured her that StraightUpG was not my type and I'm not his. We were just walking bottles of liquor that night, and we were just friends. She seemed happy with the answer. All was well.
For the next 3 weeks I didn't see Monet, and I only saw StraightUpG at Stoner's house once or twice. Trinidad and EasyD saw them much more often, and they did couple things like bowling on Thursday nights. Evidently the unholy couple became unbearable with their sweet talk and PDA to the point where the others, still in their honeymoon phase, started avoiding them besides bowling. During this timeframe StraightUpG announced plans to buy Monet a chain that matched his, which apparently in Gangster Land is the first step down the aisle. One day Trinidad told me Monet texted her saying that a previous FWB wanted to come over and she was debating letting him. This FWB only hung out with her for sex and Monet knew it. Trinidad told her she had a boyfriend and what the obvious answer was. After 20 minutes of arguing back and forth, Monet concurred and did not allow him to come over. I thought waffling about it at all was disrespectful to a guy who really, really liked her, and informed StraightUpG about that fiasco. Now I know that I should have stayed out of it, but I feel the need to point out that if I had different parts, he would have thanked me for saying that. He kind of brushed it off, but began calling Trinidad regularly to talk about his feelings.
Two weeks later he had Trinidad tell me to stay out of his business. Trinidad was also informed that he thought I was jealous of Monet and that I had a crush on him. I quickly texted him and explained myself, and told him that I don't like her for other reasons, not because of him. I also told him I didn't know where he got the feelings from, but they were non-existent. I apologized for getting "in his business", though I don't think I was. I was just concerned. This guy hadn't had a relationship in years; I didn't want his first foray into a girlfriend to fuck him up and cause him to retreat for years. We decided on a truce for the time being.
Soon after this fight I felt bad for making him feel like I was against his relationship, and decided to make amends. Monet was in Mexico for a week and they were talking over FaceTime 5 times a day. That Friday I went to Stoner's house, and when I saw StraightUpG was there, I rolled a peace offering joint for us to share. He ended up on FaceTime while I was there, but Monet knew I was there and all was good.
On Saturday I went back to Stoner's house with Trinidad, and StraightUpG was there. FaceTime again, whatever. The three of us decided to meet EasyD for dinner at Denny's. StraightUpG asked if I could pay half his bill, because otherwise he couldn't afford to go. I agreed; I had just gotten my tax refund, it was like $10, and I wanted to further mend the gap our fight had caused. Besides, he regularly did that kind of stuff for me anyway when he had money and I was broke.
At dinner, FaceTime. Again, Monet knew I was present. As we're eating, StraightUpG disappeared for 20 minutes. Eventually we were done and wanted the bill, so I went outside and told him to hurry up. As we waited for his return, we decided that I would drive StraightUpG home if he didn't want to stay out, EasyD would drive to my house and wait for me, and he would be DD when we went to the bar.
StraightUpG didn't want to come, and the 10 minute car ride was silent as I drop him off. Whatever, music was fine. I dropped off the car and went to the pub. When I got there, I checked my phone and saw a long text from StraightUpG. In laymen's terms, he said he can't hang out with me without Monet being present anymore no matter how many people there are; it's out of respect for her because stuff happened (once in 4 years, really?), and it's totally his decision- massive lie. In reality, she's uneasy about me being around him and had just reamed him out for being out with me without proper supervision. I was forced to face an uneasy truth; StraightUpG was now in a choke collar, and as I certainly didn't want to hang out with Monet anymore after that, I had just lost a 4 year friendship. Tears and shots of whisky ensued, after I responded that I wasn't going to avoid my friends just because she had a problem with me; if I showed up somewhere and he was there, he would be the one leaving. He agreed. I got drunk and apparently cried myself to sleep, but I don't remember that- too drunk. It really hurt my feelings that he thought our friendship was so easy to cut off, without a second thought, and that he decided to text me rather than say it to my face. Also, that he had pulled this shit after I had already paid for half his food. What an asshole.
On that Sunday morning, I went to Stoner's again with Trinidad. StraightUpG called Trinidad while we were there. When he realized where we are, he got upset. "Of course she's staking out my spot so I can't go there, what a bitch." Never mind that I've been friends with Stoner and thus going to his house longer than he has, but I digress. Anyway, Trinidad exploded and screamed at him for being an asshole, and told him she and EasyD won't hang out with him and Monet anymore because they're being so unreasonable. She reminds him he's excluding himself from practically everything we do now, and that she would be speaking with Monet. She hangs up. I feel vindicated, she says she'd choose me over anyone else, any day. I love her. I changed my number and cut ties with StraightUpG, and I hear that every day this week he has been with Monet getting drunk, which is apparently the only thing she wants to do. He called Trinidad a few days later 5 million times asking if all four of them were going bowling. Trinidad said "No, I don't know how much more clear I can get. We don't want to hang out with you anymore. What you did to BitchMagnets was terrible, and until you drop your bitch we are barely acquaintances."
I invited the two of them to my May 24 party soon after, and they reluctantly allowed Trinidad to pick them up and bring them down. Though I really hated Monet, I wanted so badly to still be friends with StraightUpG. She glared at me anytime I talked to him when they were there, even just to answer a question. They were at my house for 30 minutes before they ate our food, then went inside and immediately got picked up to go to a different party. After that, I washed my hands of them completely. They are still together, and apparently all they do is have sex and drink by themselves, because all their friends are sick of them. Sweet, sweet justice.
Trinidad thinks StraightUpG realized he has feelings for me and can't trust himself around me without Monet. I disagree. If he was lying about the divide being his decision, he's a pussy and a bad friend. If he wasn’t lying, he's heartless and a terrible friend.
Either way, I lost a friend. However, I don’t enjoy spending time with invertebrates, so I guess that’s a win.