Mayor Of Las Vegas: Cut Off Thumbs Of Graffiti Artists
Robert Paul Reyes
November 05, 2005
What happens in Vegas, doesn't always stay in Vegas. A few months ago the mayor of Sin City uttered a statement so absurd, it has circulated all over the globe.
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman confided in elementary school kids that drinking was one of his favorite hobbies and that the one thing he would want if stranded on an island is a bottle of booze.
I answered the question honestly and truthfully," Goodman protested. "I'm not going to lie to children. I'm not going to say I would take a teddy bear or a Bible or something like that."
You don't have to lie to children, but by the same token there are some things it's best not to tell them. If school children ask me what my dreams are, I will tell them about my desire of winning a Pulitzer Prize, but I won't mention my fantasy of having a menage-a-trois with Paris Hilton and Dr. Condoleezza Rice.
Goodman is at it again, the fearless mayor suggested that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television.
Goodman, appearing on a local Nevada TV show declared, "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. That may be the right thing to do."
Cutting off the thumbs of vandals won't stop the problem, but perhaps Goodman should have his lips glued together, or maybe his key to his liquor cabinet should be taken away?
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman confided in elementary school kids that drinking was one of his favorite hobbies and that the one thing he would want if stranded on an island is a bottle of booze.
I answered the question honestly and truthfully," Goodman protested. "I'm not going to lie to children. I'm not going to say I would take a teddy bear or a Bible or something like that."
You don't have to lie to children, but by the same token there are some things it's best not to tell them. If school children ask me what my dreams are, I will tell them about my desire of winning a Pulitzer Prize, but I won't mention my fantasy of having a menage-a-trois with Paris Hilton and Dr. Condoleezza Rice.
Goodman is at it again, the fearless mayor suggested that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television.
Goodman, appearing on a local Nevada TV show declared, "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. That may be the right thing to do."
Cutting off the thumbs of vandals won't stop the problem, but perhaps Goodman should have his lips glued together, or maybe his key to his liquor cabinet should be taken away?
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