There are a lot of dumping grounds throughout the Hudson Valley. Greenwood Lake, Seven Lakes Drive, and Yankee Lake are a few reputed places. There are alleged wiseguys living in the area and once in a great while our regional paper, The Times Herald Record, tries to interview someone under indictment, but on the whole they're pretty quiet confining themselves to small communities throughout the area. We have had issues with toxic waste dumping in landfills (legal and otherwise), supposedly done by the mob. This doesn't surprise me.

I have a friend who went into business with another guy here in Orange county and they apprently stepped on a few toes. One day my friend runs into this guy, an aquaintence of his business partner, who insists on taking my friend for a ride. So they go up to the woods, down a dirt road and my friend is shitting bricks, but as they drive it's clear that this guy knows about their business. They pull up to my friend's partner's car and the guy opens the trunk. There was my friend's business partner.

Not quite alive.

So at this point my friend soils himself and the guy turns to him and says, "You don't want to be in this business no more," then gets in his car and drives away. Needless to say, my friend dissolved the business and that was the end of that.