[AA702]

Originally Posted by Heavenleigh

Wow...thats the higlights of LV??? I knew I was moving there for a reason...
Thats safer than Chicago, or even St Louis. Heck I think just over in NW Indiana (the hills...lol...of Gary) there were 7 murders already today

Burglary...that means you were stupid enough to NOT bar your windows...

REALITY check.....crime is NOT going to stop anytime soon...think about it ...if it did....the economy would be very very bad (no need for hard core rappers ... lol j/k)
seriously....lower crime = less police, less judges, less attorneys, less gov't employees, less legal assistants, less prisons (which is BIGGGGG business), less guards and less security companies....imagine if there was NO crime....how many people would be without jobs....sorry but you all know it is true. Crime is crime and EVERYONE .....EVERYWHERE commits crime...

Dont mind Sherrif, he's having fun doing the Copy and Paste Links from the Las Vegas news sites. Hey its good ratings for the city and people move here because they know that crime is lower here than where they come from. Crime reporting here is hilarious

[dynimagelv]

Originally Posted by AAPoolServiceLV

Awesome, i love it when the cops get one for the team!

did the cops beat the guy to death with the toilet seat?????? [much better then a tazer]

[AA702]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

did the cops beat the guy to death with the toilet seat?????? [much better then a tazer]

No I was just kidding. I wish cops had more power over some of these trouble makers. Shoot first ask questions later. hehe

[dynimagelv]

Originally Posted by AAPoolServiceLV

No I was just kidding. I wish cops had more power over some of these trouble makers. Shoot first ask questions later. hehe

My kinda law......

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by sheriff

There were two shooting deaths, and one was beaten to death with a toilet seat. How fitting for THEcesspool.

In Vegas...they call that "The Royal Flush"!!!!!

[bigtallredhead]

LMFAO-!!!

Originally Posted by ackackack

I for one, love this place! Some of my favorite parts are the strip malls and big block stores on every corner. I love knowing that Walmart is only minutes away. If you get jealous reading this, don't worry one will be near you soon. I also can't get enough of unique restuarants like Chili's and Applebees, thankfully there are plenty of those too. Oh, and I can't forget all the wonderful fast food chains that build on every empty lot. This way if I am too lazy to go to Chili's I know I can choose from dozens of nearby places. If I'm craving Mexican food, I have several nearby Taco Bells, German food? Wienershnitzel! Seafood? Long John Silvers! I also enjoy driving around town. There is always lots of road construction going on, so there is always something fun and interesting to look at while I am stopped at a stoplight, wondering why they are tearing up the same road agian. I don't know why you guys are so hard on the schools here. I grew up here and am a product of the wonderful Clark County school district, so I know firsthand that they are great. I for one loved that almost a third of my fellow classmates wouldn't be getting a diploma because this meant I was going to have a leg up on them when I applied for my first low-paying, service indusrty job. It was also great to go to school each day and see so many of my fellow classmates getting an early start on what is most important, a family. Another thing I love is the many neighborhood bars and casinos. Since it is too hot for parks, we get what really matters to a community, multiple bars. This way I know that I can drink and gamble really close to home, making the drunken drive home or to Walmart much easier to swallow. Having so many neighborhood casinos is the best part though. This way I can see a movie, eat a meal, and gamble part of my hard-earned pay check. If I lose track of time and spend a little too much, no worries because I know there are several nearby check cashing places where I can get a nice high interest loan. I agree with everyone else, if you don't like it here, or can't say something nice, then do us all a favor and leave. We almost have all of the best chains in the country, and I'm tired of hearing you guys rip this place apart. What if some chain like Dunkin' Donuts for example reads your posts and decides not to bring their wonderful donuts here because of all the negativity you spread? You want to eat Winchells for the rest of your life?

-Emil.

[bigtallredhead]

[quote=ackackack;1287855][quote=Buzz123;1287736]

Originally Posted by XFILESMULDER

I've mentioned plenty of issues throughout this site that we have in this town that I wish we could do something about. One is that as neighborhoods get older they don't become quaint and settled by old timers like they do elsewhere. They get taken over by people that many of us wouldn't want as neighbors. I suppose that could be a result of the unbridled growth which is something I also hate.
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Buzz123, who are these "people" that people like you wouldn't want to live next to? Mexicans? Mexicans have been moving into the Las Vegas area and improving these old neighborhoods that no one cared about until now. It's irritating to see so many racist comments in here these days.

I would say (just speaking for my own POV) not necessarily Mexicans. They do move of coarse, in but I think this might be referring to low class disreputable people in general, regardless of race. That dose include some Hispanics of coarse, but Las Vegas has plenty of "white trash", low class blacks, etc. also. And I am sure such people don't actualy "take over" completely, but still do become a serious problem/nuisance in some established neighborhoods. That happens all over the country in some neighborhoods in the suburbs and small towns as well as cities. It may just be more common becuase in LV becuase of the nature of growth there.
-Emil.

[bigtallredhead]

[quote=Buzz123;1288114][quote=ackackack;1287855]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

Listen a-hole. Don't put words in my mouth or make blanket accusations like that about me. I have posted my thoughts about Mexicans on here and they were all positive. I have absolutely no dislike toward Mexicans or any other Hispanics. In fact I have nothing but admiration for their guts, their determination, their hard work, their culture, their food, and especially their beautiful ladies. My granddaughter is Mexican, some of my nieces and nephews are Mexican, Honduran, and Guatemalan, and I have many very good friends from all over the Hispanic world. I lived on the border in a town that was 92% Hispanic, and I was even married in Mexico and have often considered moving there. I defend them, legals and illegals, Mexican-Americans and Mexican Nationals, every time I get another racist email from idiots who wouldn't know a Mexican if one bit him in the a**. I am scared to death about what the stupid government will do to screw them over, and at the same time destroy more of our liberties as well. Putting up a fence on the border to me is a bad as the Berlin Wall. And I agree with you on one thing, they do have pride of ownership and usually have the best looking homes in a neighborhood. Too bad the white folks in those neighborhoods don't do the same. So don't you dare accuse me of hating Mexicans when you don't even know me.

You know, I think most mexicans are good people, but like with every group some are not. That is just a universal human trait (and yes sure it varies from one culture to another to a degree) and to pretend that ANY large culture is all good and dose not have it's bad elements is just absurd.

In my experience, I will say that most (not all) Mexican immigrants are definitely more civil ON AVERAGE than lower class natives ON AVERAGE at least in urban areas, and a lot of that is the highly selective nature of long distance migrants.

However, many people (and no NOT most, -just many.) in latter generations of Mexican americans do become more like far too many low class/lower working class whites, blacks, etc... and become trashy.
That's called assimilation or at least acculturation, and for good or ill it dose NOT always involve upward mobility over generations, -and did not for Europeans in the past either. Mobility over time is inconsistent, and of coarse the native working class of all races includes both highly respectable as well as disreputable people and those everywhere in between.

-There are plenty of all sorts of groups who are also quote civil, including lower status whites, and I have also encountered mexicans who were very much NOT civil as well. but again that is not so much the norm. But that really just depends on the person or sometimes family, as with any group.

[ParkTwain]

Google Maps photo of MLK @ Charleston intersection captures homeless panhandlers.

Google Maps

[ParkTwain]

Brothels and strip clubs get customers, cabbies get cash
Las Vegas SUN: Brothels and strip clubs get customers, cabbies get cash (broken link)

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Detective Jeff Gentry is undercover in Chinatown, waiting for a taxi driver he tapped to negotiate the price for a night in a neighborhood brothel - a plain vanilla apartment with cream leather sofas and soft music piped over a haggling housemother, who tells the driver that she charges $150 for "full service."

Gentry knows the brothel's base rate, but expects the cab driver to quote him $300 and poof! - pocket the rest. He does.

A working girl wearing a white robe and nothing else offers Gentry a drink. He declines.

By then, his cab driver is out the door, $150 richer.

Not bad for 20 minutes of work. Welcome to the wide world of kickbacks - the quick cash transactions keeping Las Vegas' salacious side alive.
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