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02-05-2008, 04:51 PM
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Saepe errans, num quans hesitans
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NW Las Vegas - Lone Mountain
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Hey we ought to do a map to the burial places of all the mobsters. We could send hordes of tourists out marching in the desert. Set up lemonade stands at strategic spots and make a mint.
Hire a couple of illegals to give the map out on the strip...
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02-05-2008, 04:53 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Las Vegas
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ONLY if we charge admission and give a locals discount with our club cards...  |
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02-05-2008, 05:33 PM
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Location: Grant Park, IL
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So are the snakes and scorpions a concern in those areas?
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02-05-2008, 05:41 PM
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Saepe errans, num quans hesitans
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NW Las Vegas - Lone Mountain
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dracula
So are the snakes and scorpions a concern in those areas?
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Most of that was a comedic digression. The point was that in almost all directions an hour from the strip puts you in open desert. The three places cited are actually more than an hour from the strip though an hour or less from Las Vegas.
In general snakes are a problem only if you stick your hand under things in the desert. Scorpions are a rare problem though it does happen. Generally in areas with readily available water. The vast majority of people in Las Vegas have never encountered a scorpion. The kind that are noxious are found only where landscaping was brought in. |
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02-05-2008, 09:28 PM
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Location: Grant Park, IL
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Yeah, I kinda figured it wasn't much of a problem, I lived in Forida and it's the same there with people worried about getting bite by a shark. Actually, theres more of a chance of living in the midwest and getting killed by a deer then living elsewhere and getting killed by either a snake/scorpion or a shark.
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02-06-2008, 10:40 AM
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Certified Smart Axe:)
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: West Central LV
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FLORIDA????? did ya ever get eaten by a gator???????????
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02-06-2008, 11:57 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Grant Park, IL
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No, but a lot of dogs do when unsuspecting tourists bring them near lakes and ponds.
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02-06-2008, 01:47 PM
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Señor Member
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Beautiful Upstate NY!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dracula
No, but a lot of dogs do when unsuspecting tourists bring them near lakes and ponds.
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Yep....the gators call them " hot dogs"! |
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02-06-2008, 06:46 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Grant Park, IL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jfkIII
Yep....the gators call them " hot dogs"! |
That was a good one! |
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02-08-2008, 08:58 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Tennessee
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If you want a couple of acres, don't have any children that would be in school, and can handle a couple of meth labs in the neighborhood there is Goodsprings and Sandy Valley. Mormons chatting with the tweakers at the next table at the local diner not unusual. Very libertarian live and let live attitudes out there. Only crime out there when I was there was inter-criminal and if you believe the desert is beautiful it was gorgeous.
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