Pride of Fort Erie
In the late 70s there were quite a few shitholes in Fort Erie (a small town in Southern Ontario across the Niagara River form Buffalo NY). Down by the river there was the Anglo American Hotel, the Courtwright Tavern (aka the Bucket of Blood), the Queens Hotel and the Royal. The Anglo and the Bucket were the sort of places where, if they liked you, they would throw empty beer bottles - if they didn't, chairs, pool cues and any kind of missile was fair game. First time I went to a fight call at the Anglo, my partner, who had been working there for a while, told me "Keep an eye out for the FBI". Turned out that this was not the American law enforcement agency. FBI stood for Fucking Big Indians. And there were quite a few. These guys would get their welfare checks on a Wednesday and drink it all up by Saturday night , then go home and beat the shit out of the wife and kids because there was no more money for booze. But the absolute worst was the Crystal Tavern. You had to be really something to get thrown out of that place, but it did happen. I got called there one night for an "unwanted person". We got inside to find this guy pretty much passed out at the bar. As we were dragging him out he suddenly came to life and the fight was on. After smashing the screen door of the hotel and rolling around for a while in the mud, cigarette butts and broken glass on the front sidewalk, we got him cuffed and into the car. On the way to the cells I became aware of a horrible stink. Yep, he'd shit himself. Turned out he had done that while still in the bar and the place smelled so bad we didn't even notice it. All those places are gone now, thank God.
(Smudge the Demon, Mon 10 Feb 2014, 22:31, 3 replies)

Are you a rozzer,
or just a kidnapper with low standards?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 10 Feb 2014, 23:59, closed)

Retired copper, 37 years.
(Smudge the Demon, Tue 11 Feb 2014, 23:54, closed)

Lost, like tears in rain...

( Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Tue 11 Feb 2014, 14:55, closed)