Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield Nevada

Posted on May 10, 2012 and filed under History.

Located a short drive north of Las Vegas is the rundown town of Goldfield. Visiting this area is a good way to spend a day away from the bright lights and bustle of Las Vegas.

Goldfield was a boomtown in the first decade of the 20th century due to the discovery of gold — between 1903 and 1940, Goldfield’s mines produced more than $86 million. Much of the town was destroyed by a fire in 1924, although several buildings survived and remain today, notably the Goldfield Hotel, the Consolidated Mines Building (the communications center of the town until 1963), and the schoolhouse. Gold exploration still continues in and around the town today.

for more detailed information visit the Goldfield Historical Society website.

Source: nevadamagazine.com via Nevada on Pinterest

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Distracted Driving in Las Vegas

Posted on March 30, 2012 and filed under Videos.

Distracted driving in Las Vegas is a huge problem. We are after-all in the distraction business.

Remember it is illegal for a Las Vegas Taxi Driver to be using a cell phone which is not hands-free while driving. If you witness a violation call Taxicab Authority and report the driver. Here’s the number: (702) 668-4000 They will ask you for the cab number and the drivers permit number. Both can be found on the right side dashboard of the cab in question.

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Open Rebellion at the TA Meeting

Posted on February 29, 2012 and filed under Breaking News.

As many as several hundred “Las Vegas Taxi Drivers descended upon the monthly Nevada Taxicab Authority Board meeting” to loudly voice their opposition to planned allocation of additional taxis for March Madness 2012 and NASCAR Kobalt Tools 400 on March 11, 2012.

After hearing from over 30 individual drivers as well as most of the Cab Owners, several of which sided with drivers in opposing additional cabs, TA voted to leave March Madness alone and allocate a much smaller amount of taxis for NASCAR weekend.

Take that you evil overlords!

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The Automated Car is Close to Being a Reality

Posted on February 22, 2012 and filed under Software.

Pretty amazing invention if you ask me. I figure we have maybe ten years left to even be cabbies in light of these developments.

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Testing of Robotic Cars Begins in Nevada

Posted on February 17, 2012 and filed under Videos.

Nevada Approves Self-Driving Cars after Google Lobbying Push

 

Nevada is officially the first state to approve self-driving cars. On Thursday, Nevada approved rules for testing driverless cars on state roads.

"Nevada is the first state to embrace what is surely the future of automobiles," Bruce Breslow, director of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles says in a statement. "These regulations establish requirements companies must meet to test their vehicles on Nevada’s public roadways as well as requirements for residents to legally operate them in the future."

According to reports Google worked closely with the Nevada state Legislature to pass the law making the testing of robotic cars legal.

 

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Only In Las Vegas

Posted on February 16, 2012 and filed under General.

 

courtesy of mrmatt

hot babes rolling billboard trucks las vegas

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Fox5Vegas Does Story on Taxi Longhauling.

Posted on February 16, 2012 and filed under Taxicab Authority.

Link to Fox news article and video: Hidden camera exposes taxi ‘long-haul’ scheme

 

My comments after watching the story:

 

Nice story, cept we get another pile of the usual boilerplate bs.

No where in the law does it say it is Legal to SELL a route. In fact the laws concerning DIVERSION are clear. A ride out of the airport falls under all other rides, the rider thru passive acceptance, ASSUMES the most DIRECT route will be employed from getting them from point A to point B.

Selling a different route to somebody who has no reference is DIVERSION. How is one who has never been here going to know that a route using the I215 Connector is longer? they are not, thus the crime has been committed the second a driver starts to SELL the tunnel.

The law says, not unless a RIDER initiates the request for a different route, is a cabbie allowed to take one. Well if you have never been here before why would you be requesting anything but the most economical route? Who would be requesting they be ripped off by a cabbie 15 minutes after landing in Las Vegas?

I look at this Fox report as little more than Admin Harvey trying to justify his $100K a yr gig. He most likely called Fox and requested the story. Had the copy ready and off they went. CYA for Charles Harvey. "We care and are working to end the practice", ya sure.

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Informant sues for reward in 2004 killing

Posted on February 15, 2012 and filed under Taxicab Security Safety.

The roommate/friend of James Scholl, a Kregg Nettrour, filed suit last week in Clark County District Court against the nonprofit group Crime Stoppers of Nevada and against Whittlesea Blue Cab Co. Nettrour is seeking the $20,000 reward he claims he is entitled to for turning in Scholl’s.

In August 2004, Nettrour identified an acquaintance as the killer of Pairoj Chitprasart, a taxi driver who had been set on fire by a robbery suspect and died a few days later. James Scholl’s was later convicted.

Lost in this story is the issue of Aiding and abetting.

The U.S. criminal code makes aiding and abetting a federal crime itself a crime:

(a) Whoever aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures the commission of an offense, is punishable as a principal.
(b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense, is punishable as a principal.

A person may be convicted of aiding and abetting any act made criminal under the code. The elements of aiding and abetting are, generally:

(1) guilty knowledge on the part of the accused ( the mens rea);
(2) the commission of an offense by someone; and
(3) the defendant assisted or participated in the commission of the offense (the actus reus).

So the question is, why are rewards offered to people who should be coming forward anyway? If they fail to they should be arrested and tried in court as an accessory.

This whole business of turning crime into a business is like everything else in modern America. Once a Nation of laws and principles, America has been turned into one big flea market where honesty and what is right are sold right next to toilet paper and vacations.

Personally I hope this guy loses his lawsuit and is paid nothing.

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