[woodbutcher1963]

I worked for the summer of 1981 right next door to the General Mills Cheerios factory in Buffalo, NY.
It was/still is right on the river where they pull in the grain boats. Right off Lake Erie.

There was an empty grain elevator on the other side of the warehouse I was working in. If they burned a batch of Cheerios they came out on a conveyor and dumped into a big pile in the parking lot. They gave those away. People would come and fill trash cans to feed to their livestock. At night the rats came out of the river and the abandoned elevators. HUGE WELL FED RATS.

This was also on Ohio Street in Buffalo. It was the site of night time drag races. There was a bar down the street we would go for lunch. A draft beer was $.45. Regular price. Not happy hour.

Also, the guy I worked for was a mobster. He had recently sold his garbage company to BFI. He still owned a land fill in Niagara Falls, NY back then.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

So, mobsters really all are in “waste management”? ;)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“He still owned a land fill in Niagara Falls, NY back then.”

So, you know where Jimmy Hoffa ended up, then? ;)

[dfwgator]

He still owned a land fill in Niagara Falls, NY back then.

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NIAGARA FALLS!!!! Slowly I turned...step...by...step...inch...by...inch......

[1Old Pro]

the guy I worked for was a mobster. He had recently sold his garbage company to BFI.

Yep, the mob pretty much ran the garbage companies, maybe still do.