Post subject: Las Vegas Mayor Endorses Chopping Thumbs of Graffiti Artists
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:04 pm
too drunk to moderate properly
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Mayor Wants To Chop Off Thumbs, Whip Troublemakers
POSTED: 10:22 am EST November 4, 2005
RENO, Nev. -- Off with their thumbs!
That's the suggestion of Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman.
He said graffiti artists caught defacing freeways should get their thumbs cut off -- on TV no less.
Goodman, appearing on the "Nevada Newsmakers" television show in Reno, said efforts are made to have beautiful highway landscaping, including paintings, and "These punks come along and deface it. I'm saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb."
Goodman also told the TV show that whippings or canings should be brought back for kids who get into trouble.
Goodman said he's dead serious about his crime-fighting suggestions. But he added there should be a trial before any whippings or thumb-choppings.
Goodman said society has to do something about repeat troublemakers who just don't learn.
Another panelist, a Nevada State University system regent, responded by saying that cutting off the thumbs of taggers won't solve the problem and that Goodman should "Use his head for something other than a hat rack."
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This doesn't surprise me knowing Goodman's background. He was the attorney for all the big mob guys in the '70s and '80s. I believe he plays himself in Casino.
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i'd watch
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In five years, when you get laid and grow up, you should go back and read some of these posts and if you've turned into a decent person you'll realize how much of an asshole you sound like right now
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
Torturing his own people. Regime change!
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You're all for chopping off the thumbs of people who vandalize. Basically petty criminals. But your totally opposed to sleep depriving, and using barking dogs, or hell...harmlessly stacking people into naked piles and humiliating them, when THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL YOU!
I really hope the remarks here are in jest. But knowing the track record as of late.
You're all for chopping off the thumbs of people who vandalize. Basically petty criminals. But your totally opposed to sleep depriving, and using barking dogs, or hell...harmlessly stacking people into naked piles and humiliating them, when THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL YOU!
I really hope the remarks here are in jest. But knowing the track record as of late.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
LittleWing wrote:
Wait.
You're all for chopping off the thumbs of people who vandalize. Basically petty criminals. But your totally opposed to sleep depriving, and using barking dogs, or hell...harmlessly stacking people into naked piles and humiliating them, when THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL YOU!
I really hope the remarks here are in jest. But knowing the track record as of late.
I'm going to go ahead and say this because you're mucking up other posts with your ignorance.
I don't support this. My comments are sarcastic. The idea that someone would support cutting off thumbs for graffiti is so comical and outrageous to me, that I didn't think the was necessary.
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LittleWing wrote:
On a side note. Nobody steals shit in an Islamic society.
They don't smoke either.
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was necessary.
