Amherst · Windermere / Branch

Shirtless man tries to use a knife to get into a Windermere-and-Branch apartment, twice

A black male in a Buffalo Bills cap, no shirt — the Coleman party, the caller reports — gets located, then comes right back for round two

At 11:02 Amherst PD came up with an unusual call: between Windermere and Branch, “part of a male using a knife to get into an apartment complex. Still trying to get more info.” The caller was uncooperative and hung up mid-conversation, but relayed enough for the units in the field: black male, no shirt, Buffalo Bills cap. A trespass notice was already on file against him from an earlier landlord contact.

By 11:20 units had a party on scene “intending to use a knife to enter the door,” and the officer said he'd be checking the door for damage. Dispatch identified the subject as the Coleman party. Trespass notice served, patrols cleared. Fifty-five minutes later the same complainant called back: “the male is back on location drinking with no shirt on.” Same guy, second visit, same channel.

Amherst · Transit / 990 corridor

Russell's Tree and Shrub pickup takes out multiple mailboxes on Transit, then hits the 990 into oncoming traffic

At 13:20 an Amherst officer got the call, transferred over from the Sheriff, still in progress: “Smith from Transit. Struck multiple mailboxes. Plate comes back to Russell's Tree and Shrub. It's a black pickup with a box-truck plate.” By 13:21 the driver was “passing Dan Road now, going into oncoming traffic.”

Units caught up on the 990 south, tracking the pickup past Millersport, French Road, and JJ Audubon. The truck was “driving onto the grass” at one point. At 13:28 the co-owner of the business confirmed to dispatch the pickup wasn't stolen and said he'd try to reach the driver himself. Units pulled the truck over just before Sweet Home; no injury reports came over the air.

Buffalo · BFD Ch1, 08:48

“Discarded charcoal in the packer, contained”: Buffalo Fire dispatches sanitation to the transfer station

At 08:48 the BFD Ch1 dispatcher on the East Side had the kind of disposition every fire dispatcher dreams of writing up: “Looks like some discarded charcoal in the garbage … inside the packer that was contained.” The line went on: “They're gonna take it to the transfer station and get it. Sanitation's going to handle. No damage.” Somewhere in Buffalo a homeowner emptied a still-hot grill into the trash the night before, and it made it all the way onto a garbage truck before glowing back to life.

Amherst · Walmart / 3290 Sheridan, 10:55

“I'm going to just continue to crunch and grunt”: two juveniles flee the Sheridan Drive Walmart

At 10:55 an Amherst PD unit rolled up on the Walmart customer service desk at 3290 Sheridan Drive[*] and got straight to it: “I've got a party in the store, just run around the store in a place.” By 10:58 he was updating from the parking lot: “Sorry, I just had two juveniles run for me. I don't think there were any crimes yet. This black male is one in a large hat with a black jacket. The other one is calling black backpacks.”

The kids scattered south and east, and the officer, checking car doors on the way, delivered the deadpan of the day: “I'm going to just continue to crunch and grunt.” A cover unit picked up the Walmart and the pursuing officer ended up doing a positive show-up on one of the kids at 11:09. The other one, presumably still running.

BNIA · JetBlue Ramp, 14:10

“A piece of gomack sitting inside the pushback”: the phrase of the day comes off the BNIA JetBlue ramp

At 14:10 a JetBlue ramp agent came up on the ramp channel with equal parts weariness and mystery: “Yeah, there's a piece of gomack sitting inside the pushback.” Followed by: “It is July 1st for flight 1085. Destination CDS.” The pushback is the tug that shoves the jet off the gate; “gomack” is the tug driver — GoMack GT-series pushbacks are common at BNIA. Somebody left something in a tractor and the agent had to say so on the air, and the phrase came out sounding like a punchline.

Niagara Falls · Embassy Shuttle, 12:42

“It's just too hot to think straight for me to think”: the Embassy Suites shuttle driver files a heat report

At 12:42, out on the Niagara Region hotel trunk, the Embassy Suites shuttle driver ran the day's Heat Advisory through his own filter and out over the radio: “It's just too hot to think straight for me to think.” A recursive complaint, delivered at 89 degrees under full sun in the middle of the tourist rush.

Cheektowaga · McDonald's Union-Washington, 09:39

“The prisoner Emil from McDonald's, Washington Union” — already a repeat by mid-morning

At 09:37 a Cheektowaga PD unit was on the air explaining that they had already put the same man in an ambulance around midnight the night before, when he was on Walton and Horner “stumbling around doing the same thing he's doing.” Two minutes later dispatch gave him a name: “This is the prisoner Emil from McDonald's, Washington Union.” The Union-and-Washington McDonald's, Cheektowaga's frequent-flyer of the morning shift.

Wyoming County · Perry · Route 246

Barn fire at 2778 Route 246, Perry: Perry Center, Castile, Warsaw, Wyoming, and Silver Spring all rolled

At 13:49 Wyoming County Fire dispatched a barn fire at 2778 Route 246, Perry — Perry Center and Castile 1 to fill in at Perry, Springs 2 to fill in, and Warsaw 1 and 3, Wyoming 1 and 2 to the scene. By 14:06 Springs 2 was being requested to go to the water tower to land a fill-up. Command called for Marston Air Mounds for rehab at the fire scene and stood down mutual aid for rehab at 14:22 as the run wound down without injuries broadcast.

Buffalo · Broadway and Adams

Three-car crash with rollover and possible ejection at Broadway and Adams: Hyundai on its roof, Lincoln struck

At 12:29 BFD Ch1 came out on Broadway and Adams for what dispatch called “the rollover, possible ejection… South Franklin 3, Ladder 5, Ladder 2 in place,” then re-broadcast it: “a motor vehicle accident, three cars, a reported rollover, an ejection.” A 2023 Hyundai (the rollover) and a Lincoln — both SUVs — took the worst of it. Parking Enforcement picked up the towing at 13:15 and there was no fatal call over the air.