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Cheap Chicken Wing Deal Ruined by Gunslinging Teens

111309wings.jpg Teenagers: they ruin everything, especially when armed. Lots of people around Brooklyn loved the 40-cent Tuesday wing deal at Buffalo Wild Wings sports bar in Fort Greene—even Brooklyn Cyclones players were known to wing it there on Tuesdays. But now the restaurant has discontinued the promotion because of multiple shootings and a stabbing involving adolescents who descended upon the establishment Tuesday night. Thanks a lot, minors!

Earlier this week, Councilwoman Letitia James blasted the place for promoting its 40-cent “Wing Tuesdays” to students, telling the Brooklyn Paper, "We got to do something about Wild Wings. I want this Tuesday restaurant promotion stopped, or the lease of this business revoked." So Buffalo Wild Wings complied—although a spokesman does insist they weren't "enticing kids to come."

But the NYPD maintains that the violence, which left two teens injured with gunshot wounds and another with stab wounds, "was the result of a promotion for all high school kids from several schools throughout the borough to meet at Buffalo Wild Wings." Hopefully nobody tells the teens about the Buffalo Wild Wings 60-cent "Boneless Thursdays," which is continuing as usual.

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  • Esa

    It's nice to see that racism is alive and well, no pc-ness here.

  • dgeee

    Wherever black teens gather will be violence. It ain't racist, it's a fact.

  • angry_pickle

    word

  • ilovejapgirls

    hmm i shouldn't reveal the location of this 15 cent wing place i know then...........

  • NannyState

    This is why we can't have cheap nasty things.

  • parkplace555

    Ok Letitia, so your solution to crime is security cameras and police presence on every corner and shutting down businesses that are affected by crime. Do you really think this is the way to improve your district in the long run? Or are you just looking for quick fixes to improve the numbers until the next election? I have some ideas that will fit in nicely with your methodology. How about 8pm curfews for everybody under 21? Or legalizing random, unwarranted searches of any suspicious-looking youths? Crippling taxes for single parents? I have a bunch more if you want to chat. I'm sure if we just start blindly restricting everybody's liberties enough it won't matter if the youth is undereducated or doesn't have engaging after-school programs. At least your numbers will improve long enough to benefit you.

  • zodak

    guns don't kill people, chicken wings kill people.

  • PTG in nyc

    Longacre is funny, that would at least make Felix proud though, punk ass kids murdering each other over a vegetarian promotion.



    I can't believe a Councilwoman just blamed a restaurant for selling its product as the cause of punk ass kids being punk ass kids. A lil responsibility and tough love would be nice. As much as corporations have corrupted the public attitude and individual spirit of things in this country, I had no idea that BDubs was responsible for youth violence. I could've sworn it was assholes like Lelita with their entitled attitudes and stupid fucking names. How do you expect a punk ass kid to behave and be literate when his/her name is an insult to the English language?



    To quote BDubs, "We need more time!"

  • Colochita

    Speaking of literacy, Letitia IS an English name, from as far back as medieval times. It comes from Latin. Why not just speak out against her ridiculous statement on its own? If you hadn't tried to cling to this weak excuse to air your prejudice against made-up names, you wouldn't look so stupid right now.

  • Snoopy

    Now I understand. Letitia is a Latino name. And here I thought it was Italian.

  • spnder

    Brooklyn! How sweet it is!

  • jaycjay

    "I thought this was a take out joint but it's a sports bar."



    It's chain restaurant along the lines of TGI Friday's, Chili's, Bennigan's, Hard Rock Cafe, Applebee's, and all the rest. There's a bar, but it's not what I'd think of when hearing the term sports bar.

  • moonshine99

    This is why there should be more vegetarians.

  • longacre

    Then they would just shoot each other at 40 cent falafel night.

  • JacqueMehoff

    I thought this was a take out joint but it's a sports bar.

    then easy, no minors allowed in said drinking establishment.

    Now who started this meetup/shooting? the same people who go around spreading the don't flash your high beams, don't drink tropical fantasy soda etc.

  • youngpro

    'We got to do something' Is that even proper grammar? This lady is supposed to be a role model? Let's blast the business for its advertising tactics than blast the kids and the parents. And who the hell is she to insist a legal contract like a lease should be revoked?

  • wac0202

    Phew, so If we raise the price of everything everywhere, we end crime? Also, "We got to do something"? ? !!

  • JenChungsBaby

    Good thing the ~90 cent wings keep those punk kids away from Blondie's on West 79th.

  • faprilano

    i'm going to say the same thing i've said on all the other sites regarding this matter - it's not the fault of the restaurant owners, not the fault of the security detail, the NYPD, Letita James - it's simply the fault of the parents who have not instilled any manners in these kids - they don't know how to act, behave, they have no respect and they don't any concept of the fact that there are consequences for any of their behavior. The parents of these kids have done NOTHING to school these kids in any sense of what it is to be a productive member of society. PERIOD.

  • Snoopy

    Let's see here, with a name like Letitia what might her ancestors be? Scotch Irish, German, Asian, Bulgarian I give up. When the above mentions parents are they kidding when they use the plural? How about a single grandparent raising a bunch of thugs.



    You have to love Fort Greene, home of project city. If there are a dozen parents with a male and a female that went to a matrimonial service I would be amazed.



    I know of a place that has 35 cent wings on Wednesday, should I post it?

  • silver

    Letitia is faux-french negro name from Louisiana.

  • robingee

    Hey Snoop, why don't you go pick up some free wings and shove them up your ass?

  • faprilano

    doesn't matter whether it's a single parent or a grandparent. these kids are not being taught to be productive members of society. they are not being taught respect (for others or themselves). i don't give a hoot whether or not you are a single partent, you chose to bring that child into the world, it's your responsibility to raise them right. if you don't know how, go get parenting lessons somewhere. geesh.

  • Billiamsburg

    un-fucking-believable. Really, Letitia, its a restaurant's fault for trying to promote itself and not your inbred, savage, violent people? Maybe we should revoke your right to vote since you clearly have no capability of using rational, intelligent judgement.

  • thewildpansy

    "your" people?

  • Kevin Walsh

    "We got to do something about Wild Wings. I want this Tuesday restaurant promotion stopped, or the lease of this business revoked."



    Why not take the guns away from teens instead of 40 cent wings?



    www.forgotten-ny.com

  • longacre

    Letitia James should be revoked. Talk to your scumbag constituents. These are the same people who stab birthday party guests at the Chuck E. Cheese next door.

  • felixthecat2

    Letitia James sold out to Quinn, She lied to US all. She had us at rallies for term limits and against Atlantic Yards but now she supports Quinn who push against term limits and for the Atlantic Yards development. I lost ALL respect for James. Fuck her.

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