Kids Scream at Tourists in Niagara Falls

These kids scream at other tourists just to get a reaction while at Journey behind the Falls.

Niagara’s Fury Promo Video

Here is just one of the many promo videos for the new Niagara’s Fury attraction located at Table Rock.

Seneca Casino Road Rage

Underwater Robots Set to Probe Local Wrecks

From the St. Catharines Standard:

A St. Catharines company will help marine archeologists conduct a detailed survey this week of two War of 1812 schooners sunk near Port Dalhousie.

The five-day expedition set out Sunday night and will map and photograph the wrecks of the Hamilton and the Scourge, two American schooners that sank during an 1813 storm on Lake Ontario.

The survey is headed by the City of Hamilton, but has plenty of help, including the HMCS Kingston, Parks Canada, the coast guard and Garden City-based ASI Group (Aquatic Sciences Inc.).

“We’re pretty excited about it. We’ve been helping the City of Hamilton out on this for a few years,” said Carmen Sferrazza, who founded Aquatic Sciences in 1987.

“We’re looking forward to finally getting out there.”

The company has for years monitored the area around the ships, owned by the City of Hamilton but protected as a national historic marine site, with sophisticated radar equipment.

For the detailed survey — the first in a decade — archeologists will take advantage of the company’s hi-tech Remotely Operated Vehicles to get a close look at the wrecks.

“I call them underwater robots,” said Gill Bibby, chairman of the Hamilton-Scourge Society.

“It’s great technology, it should help us get a clear look at these vessels, which is what we need.”

The survey is necessary to figure out what the City of Hamilton can do, if anything, to look after the wrecks in the future, Bibby said.

Proposals to lift the ships abounded in the ‘80s and ‘90s, said Bibby, but he suggested cost and the uncertain state of the wrecks “have pretty much made that a no-go situation.”

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Buggin Bob in Fort Erie Part 1

Confusing Stag and Doe Game in Welland

This Stag and Doe game was a little too confusing for these folks in Welland.

Cycling Niagara Frontier

Beginning at the Town of Fort Erie and traveling North along the Niagara Parkway to Niagara Falls, Queenston, Fort George, Niagara on the Lake, Port Weller and along the Welland Canal to Thorold, Welland, Port Colborne and back to Fort Erie. The Niagara Frontier is part of a DVD collection entitled Cycling the World.

Goose Attacks Dog

Face-to-Face Gunpoint Standoff with Avondale Suspect

From the St.Catharines Standard:

It was four minutes that felt like two hours.

Det. Const. Martin Cook doesn’t remember actually thinking anything when the masked bandit pointed the black handgun at him.

He doesn’t recall thinking he could get shot. Or that, after only six years as a Niagara Regional Police officer, he could be killed. Or that he might kill the man who had just threatened to shoot him. There wasn’t time to think. Only time to act. There was only reflex. Instinct. And training.

“It comes automatically. It absolutely does,” Cook said.

He faced the barrel of the man’s gun. Without any forethought or hesitation, the detective drew his own weapon. He barked an order, demanding the man stand down. Just as he was trained to do.

And there it was. Two weapons drawn in the eye blink of a moment that decided life or death.

Does he shoot or not?

Being an Avondale clerk hasn’t been the safest of jobs during the last 30 days.

Every few nights, clerks have been faced by a masked man armed with a kitchen knife. Then, after a few weeks, with a gun.

The bandit was prolific, sometimes robbing two Avondales a night.
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