OK I know that I shouldn't be judging the US on the basis of the places in the States that I've visited (mostly just California and Nevada) but its really fun to be judgmental without looking at other people's perspectives. On that note....
Seriously where do these rednecks come from? Chris and I were in a cab from McCarran Airport into Las Vegas last week and I really don't know how the subject of assault rifles came up but it did. Chris has been known to dabble in the odd bit of gunplay so he did manage to join in somewhat in this conversation, but it turned out our cabbie was a fully paid up member of the Las Vegas Militia.
Oh. My. God.
This guy started ranting about his latest acquisitions: an M-52-blah-16-Super-Bang-Bang-Whatever. Apparently this thing can fire a bullet a mile and a half (is that a good thing?) and this fellow was preparing for when the 'race wars' started (again, WTF??) so he could sit on the roof of his house and shoot people that approached. And this guy was totally deadpan.
Was probably a good time to pay my fare and jump out of the cab.
And *then* catching a cab back to the airport at the end of the week I had a nice fellow who started telling me about the coronary bypass he had booked for the following week. I was beginning to feel sorry for the guy when he told me that when he found out the surgeon that was assigned to do the procedure on him was a 'foreigner', he subsequently refused to let this doctor perform this life saving operation on him. Apparently 'the Indians' have no value on human life (according to a History Channel programme he once saw). Until this man had an 'Merican willing to perform this operation on him, the cabbie would rather die.
Again, wow.
Suffice to say I'm pretty glad to be back in little ol' Wellington.
Monday, 7 May 2007
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I drove cab in Vegas for over 5 years. If you found 2 "rednecks" driving a cab in that whole city, that's amazing in itself. Mostly it's guys with last names that have my syllables than Vegas has slot machines. I think 1 in 4 have "Mohamed" or "Muhamed" as part of their name.
Those would be the ones charging you 20 bucks for a $10 ride to the MGM.
Dude you are an idiot. I am the guy.
The only reason I found your blog is doing a search for las vegas militia.
thanks for the publicity. www.lasvegasmilitia.com is a joke website. English people tip bad so I try to offend you as much as possible. "Fully paid member" I made the site when I was drunk 2 years ago and haven't updated it since.
Haha - well that is a disappointment. I was getting some good mileage telling that story. I thought you sounded a bit smart for some of those anecdotes to actually be true. Nice one...
I still think everyone should be armed . They are having issues in India right now. Another rampage in a gun free zone as usual.
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