The Lafayette Hotel- Once classy, turned trashy.

The Lafayette Hotel in downtown Buffalo used to be one of the 15 greatest hotels in the country. Even though that was roughly a century ago, Buffalonians can still be proud, right? The architecture remains intact, the artwork is still breathtaking, and the manager is rumored to be a registered sex offender. If that's not enough to make your stay enjoyable, you can just rent a room by the hour if you happen to be passing through. For some people, that's quite the draw. Did I mention that the other rooms are rented as apartments to other sex offenders? The manager may be a rumor, but that is an absolute fact. Check out the sex registry, you'll see the eligible bachelors all have have addresses listed, many of which are at the one and only Lafayette Hotel.

Now I know there's really plenty already to boast about with this beautiful blemish on our city, but the list of benefits to this hotel isn't over quite yet. Thanks to the Buffalo News, it's time to learn about Mr. Efrain Rosado, a resident of this building and, if I do say so, the most patient drug addict I've ever heard of. It would appear that he decided, after lighting his crack pipe, that he didn't want to smoke it at 9:30 am. So he did what any practical man would do and stored it in his shirt pocket, where it wouldn't get lost. Only one problem- it was a LIT CRACK PIPE. So, what could have been good planning for the future ended up being more harm than good. See, he lit his shirt on fire when he put the crack pipe (did I mention it was lit?) in his pocket. I guess no one taught him to stop, drop, and roll, because he put his shirt in the garbage can, which then also caught fire. This gave the Buffalo Fire Dept. something to do for the morning but I think they're already fairly busy, what with all the arson. At the end of the day he got arrested on several charges, none of which involved the crack that started the fire. I don't get that part but that's only one of the questions raised. Why would he light a crack pipe, and then not smoke it? Saving it for later really works better if you don't light it, and since when are drug addicts fans of postponing gratification? They really strike me as the instant-gratification type, but I'm not a drug addict so who knows? Thank you Buffalo News, for giving me something to wonder about. Maybe if every crack addict decided to save their drugs for later, the drug problem would go away. Maybe this guy could start working for DARE, helping kids everywhere to properly store their crack.

http://www.buffalonews.com/437/story/819198.html