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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Bob Lonsbury and from the banks of the Mighty
Genesee in Rochester, New York. This is downtown section third Patoon.
You might have heard, this state has a city called Albany, Okay,
now Albany, the geographic location is a beautiful and historic place.
Real nice people live there, lots of great architecture, a
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tremendous history stretching back to the Revolution and before. Albany
as a geographic place is wonderful. But when we say
the word Albany, we're not talking about a city. Typically,
we're talking about a political system, our Democrat masters, in
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which case Albany stops being a beautiful city of wonderful
people and it becomes the butthole of New York. And
that Albany, the political Albany is the butthole of New York.
And out of the butthole of New York comes all
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kinds of nasty crap, which, as you may know from
your science class back in school, crap flows downhill. Okay,
you happen to live downhill, Okay, so I think you're
pretty familiar with the butthole of New York and the
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crap that comes out of it. Okay, Well, yesterday there
was an incident which I'd like to share with you
which illustrates how the one Albany screws over the other Albany,
how the one Albany screws over us all because what
happens in the place Albany, the beautiful town with the
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nice people, is exactly the same sort of thing happens
here all because of that Albany. That is the say
it with me now, Butthole of New York. I'm gonna
read to you a little story here from you know what,
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I'm screwed up here. This is not Albany. It's near Syracuse.
That's pretty good. But follow me anyway, all right, the
stuff about Albany being a nice town is still true,
and the stuff about Butthole absolutely still true. Anyway, listen
to this here. It's the Duitt Police Department over inn
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Onaga County, and they post four photographs. Three of them
seem to be probably from a doorbell camera. The fourth
seems to be a mugshot of a man who may
have some grooming challenges.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You know what I'm saying, It's possible.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It says here is from the police department DeWitt. The
individual picture below was observed and reported by multiple community
members attempting to enter unlocked vehicles throughout the town of
DeWitt during the early morning hours today.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This is posted on yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Okay, thanks to the quick reporting by our residents and
the efforts of de Witt police officers. The suspect was
located near the intersection of Jamesville Road and Charing Road.
Officers found him in possession of property that had been
stolen from vehicles in the area. That dirty son of
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a mix, right, he's stealing out of.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Cars, That's the allegation.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The suspect was identified as nath I'm reading off the
Facebook page of the DeWitt, New York Police Department, where
they have to face the same laws you and I
have to face. The suspect was identified as Nathan S.
Grossbec thirty, of Syracuse, New York. He was charged with
pettit larceny and pursuing to New York state laws and guidelines.
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Was issued an appearance ticket and released with a later
court date.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So okay.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Poorly groomed man allegedly stealing from cars witnessed by neighbors,
apprehended by police. State law says, hey, now, hey, now
stop oppressing that man. Okay, back away, officer, back away,
turn off your flack camera right now, officer, all right,
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and write that man in appearance ticket pronto, turn him loose.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So that's the deal.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
He's caught red handed. All the officer can do thanks
to Jeremy Cooney, Harry Bronson, you got your Lunsford one,
you got your Sarah, somebody one got the Center Brolc one.
I already mentioned Jeremy Cooney. Yeah, anyway, thanks to them,
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they had to print him out a ticket and turn
him loose right there the side of the road. Okay,
but wait, there's more in this post from the from
the DeWitt Police Department. Unfortunately, within one hour of being
released from the DeWitt Police Department, Grossbeck walked to Claret
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Circle in DeWitt and stole a set of golf clubs
valued at approximately thirty five dollars from another unlocked vehicle.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Dwitt police officers.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Quickly located him walking on Kenney Road while carrying the
stolen clubs. Yeah, like a homeless man, like a homeless fiend.
Can't play golf. Okay, keep judging, keep judging, profilers, so
an hour after this guy is turned loose, right, But
by the end of an hour he had already allegedly
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resumed thieving and had stolen more than thirty five hundred
dollars worth of property from cars, right says here. Grossbeck
was subsequently charged with grand larsney third degree and was
lodged at the Onondaga County Justice Center to await arrangnment.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now what do you think happened after arraignment? Think it true? Okay,
this is final jeopardy.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Dude, do doula du dude that they make a noise
or something like that That friggin' Ken Jennings freaks me out, man, Right,
that's right. At arrangement, this man was released without bail,
which means you better lock your damn car and you
better have your head examined if you vote for Democrats again,
because this stupid nonsense is the cops caught him once,
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and the cops caught him twice, and the Democrat governor
your special girlfriend, Comrade Kate, and you're all these guys
in the legislature I mentioned, demon meeks, they turned him
loose twice. No disincentive to crime, no protection for the community.
This is Downtown Section third Platoon on news radio Wham
eleven eighty's Downtown Section third Platoon. Do you remember Ennis
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Canter or Enis Cant or whatever else like that took
the surname Freedom. He was a first round draft pick,
I think for the NBA back in twenty eleven. That's
a little while ago now. To be honest with you,
I don't follow the NBA. I'm not that smart about sports,
but I am familiar with this gentleman because of his
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sort of political and social media stands. He is a
freedom loving guy, doesn't like communism, and he took the
surname Freedom legally just to kind of declare who he
was and what he was about. He was very He
criticized Nike, He's criticized Lebron James. He specifically criticized the
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Chinese Communist Party, which got him in trouble with the NBA,
which for whatever reason, feels a need to kiss the
ass of the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
At any rate.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
He feels like, you know that political activism standing up
for freedom kind of got him blackballed in the NBA
and at any rate, so that's who he was now here.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Is what he's done.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
He has today announced that he is declaring for the
twenty twenty seven w NBA Draft w NBA. He said, Uh,
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if simply declaring who you are is all that's required,
then I meet every requirement. He put that in a
social media post. He was sitting at a little desk wearing, uh,
an orange w n B A sweatshirt which he had
crossed over, you know, obscured the Nike logo on. Now,
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you know, this is probably just some kind of you know,
publicity stunt or commentary thing or uh you know that
he's doing.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
To kind of make a point. But the the w
n B A it's it's an interesting thing.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Watching women play basketball can be fine, right, I'm sure
it's it's the basketball is a game they're playing it.
If you like watching the game, okay, good. But the
WNBA has become so intensely about politics and primarily middle
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finger in the face. We hate established America politics. If
you're straight, if you're white, if you're patriotic, it's not
your league. Right, that's not me talking. That seems to
be the loudest voices among the players talking. Most of
us have never watched a friggin WNBA game until this lady,
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Caitlin Clark came along, and then she was such a
big person. I guess it got our curiosity.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So who is she? Let's watch her?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And you know, the WNBA, both the officials, the players
certainly and possibly even the league just resent the hell
out of her. Right, She's the biggest cash cow they've
ever had. She's brought their league attention that otherwise it
never would have had. And somehow I think they resent
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her again. She is you know, she's heterosexual, she's white,
and she's loathed in the league. It seems recently attention
has shifted as well to a teammate of her is
a lady named Sophie Cunningham, who I don't know. At
some point, you know, in a game, she's the one
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who pointed her finger at that other player. Now that
pointing the finger and steering the other athlete down, I
think that's about the coolest thing ever. Chowse real attitude.
I mean, that's what an athlete does. But you know,
somebody dug out an interview with her from last February
when they just ask her what do you think? And
these people are people, and when you ask someone a
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question usually the answer right, and you know you're just
trying to be nice to the reporter, so you answer
their question anyway. They ask her about the transgender thing,
and she says, yeah, I don't really think it's fair.
You know, love everybody, support everybody, but you know, sports
should be fair, and so no, I don't think that,
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you know, by a trans people should play in girls sports, right,
And you know she got people yay, clap, clap, clap,
or people boo hate hate, And you know a lot
of other players have come out and kind of you know,
criticized her. Some coach the other day who otherwise none
of us ever would have heard or seen anything of
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were some shirt saying trans kids something I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So there's a lot of right now.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The WNBA, instead of being focused on basketball at least
in the public mind, is focused on friggin culture wars,
you know what I'm saying. You know, the WNBA where
most of the players stay in the locker room so
they don't have to do the national anthem. You know,
it's kind of a we hate America league at any rate.
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So this guy says, I'm going to come out as
a player.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I doubt that he.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Will, because they'll probably say, you're not, like really a
transgender person. You know, you don't really you know, you're
not wearing a dress right now, for example, you don't
mean lipstick on.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
So I don't know. I do think though, that.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
People tune in sports to tune out life. I think
I think you want to have fun between the lines.
You want to see the competition. You want to see
the excellence of human performance right, to see the great
skills of the athletes, to feel the drama, the excitement
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of competition between teams and players.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Those things are all positive and wonderful.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And you know, a lot of people rag on professional athletes,
but I appreciate the diversion, the entertainment, the uplift that
they give people. People who are into sports, their lives
are blessed by those sports. And I'm not one of them,
but I am grateful that that happens. When you throw
politics in it, whether it's my politics or your politics
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or whatever, it just ruins the whole thing. Only takes
a little bit of year into ruin a perfectly good milkshake.
And that's what I think about politics and sports, right,
And so God bless the WNBA. I know you all
got your causes, but maybe things would go better if
you just played basketball and left the politics out of it.
It's time for well, this is downtown Section third Platoon
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on news radio Wham eleven eighty. Welcome back to this
downtown section third Patoon. I'm pretty excited. In the morning.
My daughter Sophie and her husband and I are going
to go on a twenty mile hike. There's something called
Mammoth Marathon. No no, no, no, Mammoth March. I think
that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's a business and they travel around different parts of
the country every weekend and they put on a twenty
mile hike and they charge people to do it, and
that's how they make their money. And the people will go,
I presume, have a lot of fun, right and at
any rate, Sophie saw this was coming on, and we're
able to find some tickets if you will, and so
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we will hike twenty miles. I have not hiked twenty
miles in a long time. I've run twenty six miles
a lot, but a twenty mile hike. I used to
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be a scout master, not a very good one, obviously.
I used to be a scout master and the hiking
Merit Badge, if I recall correctly, had a series of
hikes that the boys had to do. I can't remember
the exact distance. Was it two, five, ten miles, I
don't know, but there was finally the culminating hike was
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a twenty mile hike. And you know, boys would you know,
through you know, troop events or something like that, they
would get in the shorter hikes, but it's not often
that you have occasion or location to go do twenty miles.
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So my thing was like if somebody was trying to
get the camping mayor or the hiking merit Badge, and
you know, it's, hey, boys, why don't we just Saturday morning,
get together eight o'clock here and we'll just walk go
do twenty miles, just knock it out. And we would
just go knock it out. And it was, you know, it's, well,
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make sure you've got your hydration all this, and okay,
that's all important. We've got that, we're good, but we're
just going to walk for a while. Now here we go.
And it was easy and fun and I'm hoping these
you know, many many years later that tomorrow we'll.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Be easy and fun. I always thought it's just me
thinking out loud here.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I always thought that, like when you killed somebody, they
locked your ass up.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Well, actually, when I was growing up watching cowboy movies
on TV, I always thought that if you killed somebody,
they hanged your ass up.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Like it could be tall tree, short rope, that kind
of thing, the gallows downtown. Sorry, Slim, you shouldn't ought
to come here being a gunslinger, and Slim dies. But
it turns out it's not that way. It turns out
that you can kill somebody, and that's pretty much a
slap on the wrist anymore. We had this thing, if
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you saw it. It was last weekend at the ESL
that's where I do my banking. This one on North Goodman.
A guy Terry Manuel, fifty nine years old, walks in
and attempts to rob the bank.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, here's saying Terry Manuel of fifty nine. Back in
two thousand and four, he was sentenced twenty five to
life for murder. Okay, that's involves killing someone. That's murder yep,
twenty five to life. He was out in twenty years.
See this is where a stupid person like me is
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somewhat befuddled.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
By the practices of our.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Democratic controlled criminal justice system, because I think twenty is
less than twenty five to life being a stupid person.
I think twenty five to life means you do twenty
five years and then you have to start cowering before
the prole board, promising them that you've learned your lesson
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and will try to cut back on the murder.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Should they turn you loose? Okay?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
But no, he's out in twenty So this is a
case where a murderer robs a bank. Okay, Well, there's
another one. This one is out in Spokane, Washington, or
Spokane as I believe they pronounce it there. Aaron Faranacci.
Aaron Farranacci has confessed to the authorities that over the
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course of the last year he has set some twenty
five plus fires in that region, and some seven hundred
buildings in and around Spokane were lost homes and businesses
due to a wildfire, which the authorities alleged was started
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by this Aaron Farranacci. This guy planned setting the fire
over at least a week. It may have been far
longer than that. He studied weather forecasts, which way the
wind was to be blowing, what the relative humidity would be.
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He calculated based on weather forecasts where he could start
a fire when that would be driven by the wind
in a dry environment to create the largest conflagration. Right,
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that's pretty wicked, that's pretty fed up. But this was
about I thought when you killed people, you had to
go away. It turns out that Aaron Farinacci, back in twenty.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Ten, at the age of twenty two.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
He was doing homework and his mother making dinner was
making too much noise. This angered him. He starts f
bombing his mother, shouting at her, telling her to be.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Quiet, shut up as you make my food, which.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
The adoptive father says, Hey, don't talk to your mother
that way. You know what, Now, after dinner, I want
you to do the dishes, and Faronacci storms off goes
into his bedroom. The father follows him and says, hey,
what's going on, at which point Farinacci shoots father in
the face, killing him where he stood. Okay, and mister
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Farranacci served ten years in prison for that before being
released to become a pyromaniac and arsonist. So, yeah, apparently
killing people is not that big a deal anymore in America.
This is Downtown Section, third Platoon on news radio Wham
eleven eighty. A week ago tonight, there was a fourteen
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year old girl gunn down on the streets of the
city of Rochester. Was it seven other people wounded in
that same mass shooting the following night, it would be
some poor thirty five year old woman gunned down on
the streets of the city of Roche. It would be
the second time that she was the victim of random
gunfire in her brief and now concluded mortal life. It's
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pretty bad weekend, been some hard feelings and some political
correct egg walking. It's taken place since then, three nights
of Mayhem, all of it coming after the evening closing
of the Puerto Rican Festival. And each year we have
to pretend that there is no connection whatsoever, and in
order to assuage the ego of this group, that group,
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the other group, we have to pretend has nothing what's.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Sort of to do with it.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
There's been a lot of fighting back and forth about
you know, what happened last weekend online this week it has,
you know, interestingly largely been between black people and Latino people,
like mutual recriminations, if you will. The many Latino people
saying that the violence which arose after the Puerto Rican
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Festival was violence perpetrated by black people, and that unfortunately
that is besmirching the reputation of Latino people and of
the Puerto Rican Festival. We don't have arrests yet in
this in either of the homicides or mass shootings, but
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the observation I think online could well be good. Now,
Latino is a heritage, Black is typically a race, and
there are of course people who are black and who
are Latino, right, but there are also people who are
black who have a very different cultural background than Latino people.
We have there haven't been arrests, so we don't know
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who did what, but the observation of Latino people in
this regard could be could be true.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
One of the TV.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Stations interviewed a man last weekend who was selling goods
outside l Plan Creola or how you say that on
North Clinton, a wonderful restaurant and take out of Puerto
Rican food, and he said, you know, the ten percent
ruin it for the ninety percent, and that's that's how
it goes. I agree with the gentleman now there's also
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been a subtext in the conversation. This has involved some politicians.
To avoid shade being cast on the Puerto Rican Festival,
they say, well, it's all festivals, and we've still got
a lot of festivals, so there'll be a lot of violence.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Well, and you know, maybe that's a hope. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
The Caribbean Festival or something like that is either tonight
or tomorrow, I think at Doctor King Park or something.
And I've heard people onlineing and conversations that I've been
a part of the say well, you know, you wait
and see, they're going to.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Have trouble after that.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And you know, Latino people have been saying that, I
I you know, who knows what the future holds, But
in past years it's not been the case anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It's a heartbreak, A very very.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Small number of people do something very very bad and
a whole community ends up, you know, kind of at each.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Other's throats over it.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Here's a point I would make, And I don't know
if the audience of this station right now is comprised
of too many young people living in the city of Rochester,
but I would say that when the mayor says don't
gather late at night in large groups because it's dangerous.
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I would say that it might pay to listen to
what he says, right, I don't. I don't think that
his you know, curfew if you will, is constitutional. I
think that'll be thrown out. But I think point is
a good one. Large numbers of people gathered late at
night become either sources of disputes and people pull out
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their guns and start shooting, or those large gatherings of
people will be specifically targeted, either because it's a large
group or because someone in that group, you know, some
other gang banger, is pissed off at right, So you
almost want to say to every household in the city
of Rochester or wherever, stay home, let this blow over,
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and if it's after like ten or twelve o'clock at night,
get home, and whatever you do, don't congregate in some
large group or mass, especially in proximity to a street.
That's dumb, Right, you don't want to do that. And
when the mayor says go home, here's the thing, Maleik's
got a point, and you know he's saying go home, yes,
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to help come the streets of his city. But I
hope we also realize that following his counsel has a
good chance of saving your life. Don't be hanging on
the streets. Right, it's one, two, three o'clock in the morning.
Get the frig home, right, you got Netflix, go watch something,
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maybe parish that thought gets some sleep. But at any rate,
God bless the people. I hope that it's safe weekend.
Odds are that it probably will be. Speaking earlier today
with a man named Jeff Waiter, who is retiring today
from the Rochester Police Department, is the outgoing president of
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the Locust Club, he said that the only thing he
can think of to save Rochester from a policing standpoint
is for there to be the formation of a metropolitan
police department covering all of Monroe County. I can't imagine
any such thing ever coming to pass. I don't know
how it would function or work. But his thought is
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that the Rochester Police Department is just so chronically understaffed,
and that nasty politicians, not a majority of them, but
you know, a nasty portion so vilify police officers as
to drive people out of the profession, making matters only
worse for everyone from the citizens to the police. Well,
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at any rate, have yourself a wonderful weekend, won't you.
I know I am going to from the banks of
the Mighty Genesee in Rochester, New York. This is Downtown Section,
third Platoon, and we are ten to seven on the
night
Good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Bob Lonsbury and from the banks of the Mighty
Genesee in Rochester, New York. This is downtown section third Patoon.
You might have heard, this state has a city called Albany, Okay,
now Albany, the geographic location is a beautiful and historic place.
Real nice people live there, lots of great architecture, a
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tremendous history stretching back to the Revolution and before. Albany
as a geographic place is wonderful. But when we say
the word Albany, we're not talking about a city. Typically,
we're talking about a political system, our Democrat masters, in
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which case Albany stops being a beautiful city of wonderful
people and it becomes the butthole of New York. And
that Albany, the political Albany is the butthole of New York.
And out of the butthole of New York comes all
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kinds of nasty crap, which, as you may know from
your science class back in school, crap flows downhill. Okay,
you happen to live downhill, Okay, so I think you're
pretty familiar with the butthole of New York and the
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crap that comes out of it. Okay, Well, yesterday there
was an incident which I'd like to share with you
which illustrates how the one Albany screws over the other Albany,
how the one Albany screws over us all because what
happens in the place Albany, the beautiful town with the
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nice people, is exactly the same sort of thing happens
here all because of that Albany. That is the say
it with me now, Butthole of New York. I'm gonna
read to you a little story here from you know what,
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I'm screwed up here. This is not Albany. It's near Syracuse.
That's pretty good. But follow me anyway, all right, the
stuff about Albany being a nice town is still true,
and the stuff about Butthole absolutely still true. Anyway, listen
to this here. It's the Duitt Police Department over inn
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Onaga County, and they post four photographs. Three of them
seem to be probably from a doorbell camera. The fourth
seems to be a mugshot of a man who may
have some grooming challenges.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You know what I'm saying, It's possible.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It says here is from the police department DeWitt. The
individual picture below was observed and reported by multiple community
members attempting to enter unlocked vehicles throughout the town of
DeWitt during the early morning hours today.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This is posted on yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Okay, thanks to the quick reporting by our residents and
the efforts of de Witt police officers. The suspect was
located near the intersection of Jamesville Road and Charing Road.
Officers found him in possession of property that had been
stolen from vehicles in the area. That dirty son of
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a mix, right, he's stealing out of.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Cars, That's the allegation.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The suspect was identified as nath I'm reading off the
Facebook page of the DeWitt, New York Police Department, where
they have to face the same laws you and I
have to face. The suspect was identified as Nathan S.
Grossbec thirty, of Syracuse, New York. He was charged with
pettit larceny and pursuing to New York state laws and guidelines.
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Was issued an appearance ticket and released with a later
court date.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So okay.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Poorly groomed man allegedly stealing from cars witnessed by neighbors,
apprehended by police. State law says, hey, now, hey, now
stop oppressing that man. Okay, back away, officer, back away,
turn off your flack camera right now, officer, all right,
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and write that man in appearance ticket pronto, turn him loose.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So that's the deal.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
He's caught red handed. All the officer can do thanks
to Jeremy Cooney, Harry Bronson, you got your Lunsford one,
you got your Sarah, somebody one got the Center Brolc one.
I already mentioned Jeremy Cooney. Yeah, anyway, thanks to them,
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they had to print him out a ticket and turn
him loose right there the side of the road. Okay,
but wait, there's more in this post from the from
the DeWitt Police Department. Unfortunately, within one hour of being
released from the DeWitt Police Department, Grossbeck walked to Claret
(05:31):
Circle in DeWitt and stole a set of golf clubs
valued at approximately thirty five dollars from another unlocked vehicle.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Dwitt police officers.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Quickly located him walking on Kenney Road while carrying the
stolen clubs. Yeah, like a homeless man, like a homeless fiend.
Can't play golf. Okay, keep judging, keep judging, profilers, so
an hour after this guy is turned loose, right, But
by the end of an hour he had already allegedly
(06:05):
resumed thieving and had stolen more than thirty five hundred
dollars worth of property from cars, right says here. Grossbeck
was subsequently charged with grand larsney third degree and was
lodged at the Onondaga County Justice Center to await arrangnment.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now what do you think happened after arraignment? Think it true? Okay,
this is final jeopardy.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Dude, do doula du dude that they make a noise
or something like that That friggin' Ken Jennings freaks me out, man, Right,
that's right. At arrangement, this man was released without bail,
which means you better lock your damn car and you
better have your head examined if you vote for Democrats again,
because this stupid nonsense is the cops caught him once,
(06:57):
and the cops caught him twice, and the Democrat governor
your special girlfriend, Comrade Kate, and you're all these guys
in the legislature I mentioned, demon meeks, they turned him
loose twice. No disincentive to crime, no protection for the community.
This is Downtown Section third Platoon on news radio Wham
eleven eighty's Downtown Section third Platoon. Do you remember Ennis
(07:22):
Canter or Enis Cant or whatever else like that took
the surname Freedom. He was a first round draft pick,
I think for the NBA back in twenty eleven. That's
a little while ago now. To be honest with you,
I don't follow the NBA. I'm not that smart about sports,
but I am familiar with this gentleman because of his
(07:47):
sort of political and social media stands. He is a
freedom loving guy, doesn't like communism, and he took the
surname Freedom legally just to kind of declare who he
was and what he was about. He was very He
criticized Nike, He's criticized Lebron James. He specifically criticized the
(08:13):
Chinese Communist Party, which got him in trouble with the NBA,
which for whatever reason, feels a need to kiss the
ass of the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
At any rate.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
He feels like, you know that political activism standing up
for freedom kind of got him blackballed in the NBA
and at any rate, so that's who he was now here.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Is what he's done.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
He has today announced that he is declaring for the
twenty twenty seven w NBA Draft w NBA. He said, Uh,
(09:05):
if simply declaring who you are is all that's required,
then I meet every requirement. He put that in a
social media post. He was sitting at a little desk wearing, uh,
an orange w n B A sweatshirt which he had
crossed over, you know, obscured the Nike logo on. Now,
(09:31):
you know, this is probably just some kind of you know,
publicity stunt or commentary thing or uh you know that
he's doing.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
To kind of make a point. But the the w
n B A it's it's an interesting thing.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Watching women play basketball can be fine, right, I'm sure
it's it's the basketball is a game they're playing it.
If you like watching the game, okay, good. But the
WNBA has become so intensely about politics and primarily middle
(10:12):
finger in the face. We hate established America politics. If
you're straight, if you're white, if you're patriotic, it's not
your league. Right, that's not me talking. That seems to
be the loudest voices among the players talking. Most of
us have never watched a friggin WNBA game until this lady,
(10:33):
Caitlin Clark came along, and then she was such a
big person. I guess it got our curiosity.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So who is she? Let's watch her?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And you know, the WNBA, both the officials, the players
certainly and possibly even the league just resent the hell
out of her. Right, She's the biggest cash cow they've
ever had. She's brought their league attention that otherwise it
never would have had. And somehow I think they resent
(11:03):
her again. She is you know, she's heterosexual, she's white,
and she's loathed in the league. It seems recently attention
has shifted as well to a teammate of her is
a lady named Sophie Cunningham, who I don't know. At
some point, you know, in a game, she's the one
(11:25):
who pointed her finger at that other player. Now that
pointing the finger and steering the other athlete down, I
think that's about the coolest thing ever. Chowse real attitude.
I mean, that's what an athlete does. But you know,
somebody dug out an interview with her from last February
when they just ask her what do you think? And
these people are people, and when you ask someone a
(11:46):
question usually the answer right, and you know you're just
trying to be nice to the reporter, so you answer
their question anyway. They ask her about the transgender thing,
and she says, yeah, I don't really think it's fair.
You know, love everybody, support everybody, but you know, sports
should be fair, and so no, I don't think that,
(12:07):
you know, by a trans people should play in girls sports, right,
And you know she got people yay, clap, clap, clap,
or people boo hate hate, And you know a lot
of other players have come out and kind of you know,
criticized her. Some coach the other day who otherwise none
of us ever would have heard or seen anything of
(12:30):
were some shirt saying trans kids something I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So there's a lot of right now.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The WNBA, instead of being focused on basketball at least
in the public mind, is focused on friggin culture wars,
you know what I'm saying. You know, the WNBA where
most of the players stay in the locker room so
they don't have to do the national anthem. You know,
it's kind of a we hate America league at any rate.
(12:59):
So this guy says, I'm going to come out as
a player.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I doubt that he.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Will, because they'll probably say, you're not, like really a
transgender person. You know, you don't really you know, you're
not wearing a dress right now, for example, you don't
mean lipstick on.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
So I don't know. I do think though, that.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
People tune in sports to tune out life. I think
I think you want to have fun between the lines.
You want to see the competition. You want to see
the excellence of human performance right, to see the great
skills of the athletes, to feel the drama, the excitement
(13:44):
of competition between teams and players.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Those things are all positive and wonderful.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And you know, a lot of people rag on professional athletes,
but I appreciate the diversion, the entertainment, the uplift that
they give people. People who are into sports, their lives
are blessed by those sports. And I'm not one of them,
but I am grateful that that happens. When you throw
politics in it, whether it's my politics or your politics
(14:11):
or whatever, it just ruins the whole thing. Only takes
a little bit of year into ruin a perfectly good milkshake.
And that's what I think about politics and sports, right,
And so God bless the WNBA. I know you all
got your causes, but maybe things would go better if
you just played basketball and left the politics out of it.
It's time for well, this is downtown Section third Platoon
(14:33):
on news radio Wham eleven eighty. Welcome back to this
downtown section third Patoon. I'm pretty excited. In the morning.
My daughter Sophie and her husband and I are going
to go on a twenty mile hike. There's something called
Mammoth Marathon. No no, no, no, Mammoth March. I think
that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's a business and they travel around different parts of
the country every weekend and they put on a twenty
mile hike and they charge people to do it, and
that's how they make their money. And the people will go,
I presume, have a lot of fun, right and at
any rate, Sophie saw this was coming on, and we're
able to find some tickets if you will, and so
(15:15):
we will hike twenty miles. I have not hiked twenty
miles in a long time. I've run twenty six miles
a lot, but a twenty mile hike. I used to
(15:37):
be a scout master, not a very good one, obviously.
I used to be a scout master and the hiking
Merit Badge, if I recall correctly, had a series of
hikes that the boys had to do. I can't remember
the exact distance. Was it two, five, ten miles, I
don't know, but there was finally the culminating hike was
(15:58):
a twenty mile hike. And you know, boys would you know,
through you know, troop events or something like that, they
would get in the shorter hikes, but it's not often
that you have occasion or location to go do twenty miles.
(16:18):
So my thing was like if somebody was trying to
get the camping mayor or the hiking merit Badge, and
you know, it's, hey, boys, why don't we just Saturday morning,
get together eight o'clock here and we'll just walk go
do twenty miles, just knock it out. And we would
just go knock it out. And it was, you know, it's, well,
(16:40):
make sure you've got your hydration all this, and okay,
that's all important. We've got that, we're good, but we're
just going to walk for a while. Now here we go.
And it was easy and fun and I'm hoping these
you know, many many years later that tomorrow we'll.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Be easy and fun. I always thought it's just me
thinking out loud here.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I always thought that, like when you killed somebody, they
locked your ass up.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Well, actually, when I was growing up watching cowboy movies
on TV, I always thought that if you killed somebody,
they hanged your ass up.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Like it could be tall tree, short rope, that kind
of thing, the gallows downtown. Sorry, Slim, you shouldn't ought
to come here being a gunslinger, and Slim dies. But
it turns out it's not that way. It turns out
that you can kill somebody, and that's pretty much a
slap on the wrist anymore. We had this thing, if
(17:43):
you saw it. It was last weekend at the ESL
that's where I do my banking. This one on North Goodman.
A guy Terry Manuel, fifty nine years old, walks in
and attempts to rob the bank.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, here's saying Terry Manuel of fifty nine. Back in
two thousand and four, he was sentenced twenty five to
life for murder. Okay, that's involves killing someone. That's murder yep,
twenty five to life. He was out in twenty years.
See this is where a stupid person like me is
(18:24):
somewhat befuddled.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
By the practices of our.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Democratic controlled criminal justice system, because I think twenty is
less than twenty five to life being a stupid person.
I think twenty five to life means you do twenty
five years and then you have to start cowering before
the prole board, promising them that you've learned your lesson
(18:52):
and will try to cut back on the murder.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Should they turn you loose? Okay?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
But no, he's out in twenty So this is a
case where a murderer robs a bank. Okay, Well, there's
another one. This one is out in Spokane, Washington, or
Spokane as I believe they pronounce it there. Aaron Faranacci.
Aaron Farranacci has confessed to the authorities that over the
(19:21):
course of the last year he has set some twenty
five plus fires in that region, and some seven hundred
buildings in and around Spokane were lost homes and businesses
due to a wildfire, which the authorities alleged was started
(19:42):
by this Aaron Farranacci. This guy planned setting the fire
over at least a week. It may have been far
longer than that. He studied weather forecasts, which way the
wind was to be blowing, what the relative humidity would be.
(20:04):
He calculated based on weather forecasts where he could start
a fire when that would be driven by the wind
in a dry environment to create the largest conflagration. Right,
(20:24):
that's pretty wicked, that's pretty fed up. But this was
about I thought when you killed people, you had to
go away. It turns out that Aaron Farinacci, back in twenty.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Ten, at the age of twenty two.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
He was doing homework and his mother making dinner was
making too much noise. This angered him. He starts f
bombing his mother, shouting at her, telling her to be.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Quiet, shut up as you make my food, which.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
The adoptive father says, Hey, don't talk to your mother
that way. You know what, Now, after dinner, I want
you to do the dishes, and Faronacci storms off goes
into his bedroom. The father follows him and says, hey,
what's going on, at which point Farinacci shoots father in
the face, killing him where he stood. Okay, and mister
(21:21):
Farranacci served ten years in prison for that before being
released to become a pyromaniac and arsonist. So, yeah, apparently
killing people is not that big a deal anymore in America.
This is Downtown Section, third Platoon on news radio Wham
eleven eighty. A week ago tonight, there was a fourteen
(21:45):
year old girl gunn down on the streets of the
city of Rochester. Was it seven other people wounded in
that same mass shooting the following night, it would be
some poor thirty five year old woman gunned down on
the streets of the city of Roche. It would be
the second time that she was the victim of random
gunfire in her brief and now concluded mortal life. It's
(22:11):
pretty bad weekend, been some hard feelings and some political
correct egg walking. It's taken place since then, three nights
of Mayhem, all of it coming after the evening closing
of the Puerto Rican Festival. And each year we have
to pretend that there is no connection whatsoever, and in
order to assuage the ego of this group, that group,
(22:34):
the other group, we have to pretend has nothing what's.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Sort of to do with it.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
There's been a lot of fighting back and forth about
you know, what happened last weekend online this week it has,
you know, interestingly largely been between black people and Latino people,
like mutual recriminations, if you will. The many Latino people
saying that the violence which arose after the Puerto Rican
(23:02):
Festival was violence perpetrated by black people, and that unfortunately
that is besmirching the reputation of Latino people and of
the Puerto Rican Festival. We don't have arrests yet in
this in either of the homicides or mass shootings, but
(23:24):
the observation I think online could well be good. Now,
Latino is a heritage, Black is typically a race, and
there are of course people who are black and who
are Latino, right, but there are also people who are
black who have a very different cultural background than Latino people.
We have there haven't been arrests, so we don't know
(23:47):
who did what, but the observation of Latino people in
this regard could be could be true.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
One of the TV.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Stations interviewed a man last weekend who was selling goods
outside l Plan Creola or how you say that on
North Clinton, a wonderful restaurant and take out of Puerto
Rican food, and he said, you know, the ten percent
ruin it for the ninety percent, and that's that's how
it goes. I agree with the gentleman now there's also
(24:20):
been a subtext in the conversation. This has involved some politicians.
To avoid shade being cast on the Puerto Rican Festival,
they say, well, it's all festivals, and we've still got
a lot of festivals, so there'll be a lot of violence.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Well, and you know, maybe that's a hope. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
The Caribbean Festival or something like that is either tonight
or tomorrow, I think at Doctor King Park or something.
And I've heard people onlineing and conversations that I've been
a part of the say well, you know, you wait
and see, they're going to.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Have trouble after that.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And you know, Latino people have been saying that, I
I you know, who knows what the future holds, But
in past years it's not been the case anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It's a heartbreak, A very very.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Small number of people do something very very bad and
a whole community ends up, you know, kind of at each.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Other's throats over it.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Here's a point I would make, And I don't know
if the audience of this station right now is comprised
of too many young people living in the city of Rochester,
but I would say that when the mayor says don't
gather late at night in large groups because it's dangerous.
(25:46):
I would say that it might pay to listen to
what he says, right, I don't. I don't think that
his you know, curfew if you will, is constitutional. I
think that'll be thrown out. But I think point is
a good one. Large numbers of people gathered late at
night become either sources of disputes and people pull out
(26:08):
their guns and start shooting, or those large gatherings of
people will be specifically targeted, either because it's a large
group or because someone in that group, you know, some
other gang banger, is pissed off at right, So you
almost want to say to every household in the city
of Rochester or wherever, stay home, let this blow over,
(26:32):
and if it's after like ten or twelve o'clock at night,
get home, and whatever you do, don't congregate in some
large group or mass, especially in proximity to a street.
That's dumb, Right, you don't want to do that. And
when the mayor says go home, here's the thing, Maleik's
got a point, and you know he's saying go home, yes,
(26:56):
to help come the streets of his city. But I
hope we also realize that following his counsel has a
good chance of saving your life. Don't be hanging on
the streets. Right, it's one, two, three o'clock in the morning.
Get the frig home, right, you got Netflix, go watch something,
(27:20):
maybe parish that thought gets some sleep. But at any rate,
God bless the people. I hope that it's safe weekend.
Odds are that it probably will be. Speaking earlier today
with a man named Jeff Waiter, who is retiring today
from the Rochester Police Department, is the outgoing president of
(27:40):
the Locust Club, he said that the only thing he
can think of to save Rochester from a policing standpoint
is for there to be the formation of a metropolitan
police department covering all of Monroe County. I can't imagine
any such thing ever coming to pass. I don't know
how it would function or work. But his thought is
(28:06):
that the Rochester Police Department is just so chronically understaffed,
and that nasty politicians, not a majority of them, but
you know, a nasty portion so vilify police officers as
to drive people out of the profession, making matters only
worse for everyone from the citizens to the police. Well,
(28:27):
at any rate, have yourself a wonderful weekend, won't you.
I know I am going to from the banks of
the Mighty Genesee in Rochester, New York. This is Downtown Section,
third Platoon, and we are ten to seven on the
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