Posted on 11/03/2005 12:55:33 PM PST by SmithL
Reno -- Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has suggested that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television.
Goodman, appearing Wednesday on the "Nevada Newsmakers" television show, said, "In the old days in France, they had beheading of people who commit heinous crimes.
"You know, we have a beautiful highway landscaping redevelopment in our downtown. We have desert tortoises and beautiful paintings of flora and fauna. These punks come along and deface it.
"I'm saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb," the mayor added. "That may be the right thing to do."
Goodman also suggested that whippings or canings should be brought back for children who get into trouble.
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I'll be there tomorrow.
I give this proposal 2 thumbs up.
Sounds like the man has a plan.
Hate to think what he would want for Casino cheats.
I'm lovin' this guy.
Politicos like this is why Reno has always been a much nicer town than Vegas. No sarcasm intended.
Kind of hard to hold a paint can without a thumb.
And especially johns...
Wotta wimp. I'm still looking for takers on my shoot-out-both-knees-and-dump-'em-in-the-desert crime reduction program.
an them we progress to seperating weinies from pedophiles on TV?
sign me up.
an then we progress to seperating weinies from pedophiles on TV?
sign me up.
I figured Oscar knows some thumb-breakers.
But thumb-choppers? Yakuza in town?
Now there's a plan I can fully support!
nexttimeyouseesomeonepostwithoutspaces,you'llknowwhy
Cant they take their talents and sell it? Its like God gave this incredible talent and all they do with it is mess up other people's successes.
give em the eyebox!
/casino
//tough irishman
Ah, Mafioso tactics
As much as I hate graffiti I'm afraid this is unconstitutional.
Fingers.
I year in jail, no early out!
How about just branding their thums, like the punishment of the Boston Massacre soldiers!!
Cut off their thumbs on Pay Per View. Then make them hitchhike outta town....
Any chance he's Republican? Any chance his current term as mayor is up in '08?????? Any chance he would take the same stance with illegals and muslims? If so, I'm really likin' this guy....
If Giuliani had said something like this, New York would have burned to the ground. But a Democrat said it, so it's OK.
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Oscar, Oscar, Oscar ...
No, No, and No.
I support 100 hours of community service cleaning up graffiti.
Punishment is too mild. There is no point to coddling vandals. Should make them stare at their own graffiti 24/7.
>>>" I support 100 hours of community service cleaning up graffiti."
How about a tatoo on the forehead, 1 year jail time, $10,000 fine (parents responsible if child)?
either/or.
That brought a roaring laugh to the room~~!!
LOL!
"By the beard of my father! but ye are whelps of the true breed. Why so keen, then, to be soldiers?""That we may fight the Scots," they answered. "Daddy will send us to fight the Scots."
"And why the Scots, my pretty lads? We have seen French and Spanish galleys no further away than Southampton, but I doubt that it will be some time before the Scots find their way to these parts."
"Our business is with the Scots," quoth the elder; "for it was the Scots who cut off daddy's string fingers and his thumbs."
"Aye, lads, it was that," said a deep voice from behind Alleyne's shoulder. Looking round, the wayfarers saw a gaunt, big-boned man, with sunken cheeks and a sallow face, who had come up behind them. He held up his two hands as he spoke, and showed that the thumbs and two first fingers had been torn away from each of them.
"Ma foi, camarade!" cried Aylward. "Who hath served thee in so shameful a fashion?"
"It is easy to see, friend, that you were born far from the marches of Scotland," quoth the stranger, with a bitter smile. "North of Humber there is no man who would not know the handiwork of Devil Douglas, the black Lord James."
"And how fell you into his hands?" asked John.
"I am a man of the north country, from the town of Beverley and the wapentake of Holderness," he answered. "There was a day when, from Trent to Tweed, there was no better marksman than Robin Heathcot. Yet, as you see, he hath left me, as he hath left many another poor border archer, with no grip for bill or bow. Yet the king hath given me a living here in the southlands, and please God these two lads of mine will pay off a debt that hath been owing over long. What is the price of daddy's thumbs, boys?"
"Twenty Scottish lives," they answered together.
"And for the fingers?"
"Half a score."
"When they can bend my war-bow, and bring down a squirrel at a hundred paces, I send them to take service under Johnny Copeland, the Lord of the Marches and Governor of Carlisle. By my soul! I would give the rest of my fingers to see the Douglas within arrow-flight of them."
"May you live to see it," quoth the bowman.
- The White Company, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oscar has his brightest ideas when he is 3-sheets to the wind, which is often.
remember, the BOR only forbids cruel AND unusual punishment. So it could be one or the other, but not both! ;)
Didn't stop Yeltsin from holding a bottle of vodka.
Trivia: Oscar Goodman was famous (or infamous) as one of the premier Mob lawyers for years. He travelled the country defending mobsters before he was elected mayor of Las Vegas.
Notice the CONVENIENT lack of party affiliation for the good Mayor?
Mayor Goodman is my kinda Democrat!
I met Oscar at the Vegas airport earlier this year. One look at that red, ruddy face, and bulbous nose and you know he enjoys Vegas.
He's a gabber. His wife finally had to drag him onto the plane. Interestingly, he was meeting some group in Chicago about bringing a baseball (Class AA?) team to Vegas.
Or guys that short-change the prostitutes.
ROFL
Last year in a Q & A session with some fourth graders Oscar told them that one of his hobbies was drinking. He also told them that if he were stranded on an island the one thing he would want with him would be a bottle of gin. LOL.
(I've heard that to this day he swears there is no such thing as the mafia.)
Trivia: Oscar Goodman(D) was famous (or infamous) as one of the premier Mob lawyers for years. He travelled the country defending mobsters before he was elected mayor of Las Vegas.
You forgot the (D) behind his name....
Why do they even call it art? We could go a long way if we ignored it and painted it out every day. A graffiti paint out patrol worked in San Jose. Absolutely every morning the crap was gone. The taggers soon gave up. Looks like they moved to Vegas.
There's a story to hear around a glass of English cider!
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