I have no tolerance for this kind of crap. This is the same mentality that punks all over the city have when they spray paint buildings and signs with their less than literate punk ass poetry. Kids do this kind of crap because the consequences of getting caught are so minimal.

If you let them get away with this kind of crap when they are teenagers, what kind of crap are they going to be doing when they are twenty? Will it progress to stealing from their employer? Will they key someone’s car because that person ticked them off?

If I was the father of either of these two kids, I’d be kicking some ass and taking out an ad in the Buffalo news to make them apologize publicly for their fricken stupidity. These kids are lucky they didn’t get caught in the act. They might of got a real beating and deservedly so.

We never participated in the massive housing boom that so many other areas in the United States experienced. I think that our high property taxes around here prevent things like that from happening. I suppose they are still possible, just far less likely. If they did happen here, they would probably develop much more slowly than other areas of the country.

Now that the real estate market has taken a turn for the worse, I am kind of grateful that we never experienced that boom. No boom hopefully means no bust. I think the banks around here are far more responsible when it comes to making loans to people also. It seems like even though I have good credit, banks are still hesitant to fork over huge amounts of cash.

That should bode well for the local banks’ balance sheets. Maybe there is opportunity here to own stock in them?

So, I guess if you are looking for a silver lining in the way things are done around the Buffalo area, you can rest assured knowing that the lack of froth in the local real estate market has pervented the need for home prices to give back any of the last 5-10 years of capital gains.