Niagara cops ready to battle N.Y. sherrifs

    This happened this past Saturday, but here is a Niagara This Week article that was describing the event:

    Thirty of Niagara Regional Police Service’s finest are ready to take on their cross-border rivals in the annual International Tug-of-War Challenge on Saturday.

    For more than 40 years, Niagara officers have taken on the Niagara Falls, N.Y., Police Department and the Niagara County Sheriff’s Department in a battle of muscle for the accompanying boasting rights until next year’s challenge.

    This year the Tug-of-War Team will be assembling in the parking lot behind Rumors on Clifton Hill at about 1p.m. before marching to the Rainbow Bridge where the event will take place at 2 p.m. sharp.

    I hadn’t seen this article and so didn’t know they were going to be there. I just happened to be coming through the parking lot at that time, and saw them getting ready and then marching down Clifton Hill. Here is a picture I took with my cell phone:

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