Posted on 12/27/2014 6:47:28 AM PST by C19fan
“For all of his other craziness, at least he (typically) stood with the NYPD and its policies.”
Yea, it’s an easy thing to not notice as it seems to go totally against everything else he stood for - but he was a big part of ending the terror that plagued NYC...and it blows my mind that people there REFUSE to acknowledge and appreciate those policies.
“Doesn’t one have to volunteer to be a Mark?”
Indeed:
“That was an interesting one,” he said, gesturing to his teenage son. “I taught him something.”
BTW, as far as I can tell, he taught his teenage soon that dad is a fool (which the son probably already strongly suspected anyway.) I thought only Clark Griswald could lose at three-card monte and claim he was teaching his son Rusty a valuable lesson.
“Exactly the sort of thing police shouldn’t be wasting time on and there is nothing libertarian about that sentiment.”
Turns out that is EXACTLY how Rudy cleaned up NYPD, because he found that almost all the busted nuisance criminals had outstanding warrants for much more serious crimes and cleared the streets of street crime that way.
Even in the little town of Santa Rosa, CA, the homeless and panhadling are so bad that I seldom, if ever go downtown and yet, they cannot do enough for these bums; more shelters, more meals, more accommodations. They are a scourge on the city. They place is filthy, the people are offensive and disgusting.
In my town in NJ I had a healthy-looking twenty year-old ask me for five dollars. Inflation!
The scam in three-card monte is to get you to show more money; if you win then a block away you are robbed (of the dealer’s money and your own).
A friend of mine had a 4-cylinder Firebird in high school; looked great but wasn’t quick at all - just a phallus with wheels...
I think I remember Bloomberg, early in his first term, failing to go to the hospital bed of a cop who was shot. There was an out cry and he hustled over there. He never made that mistake again.
Problem with entertainment licenses is that it’s not just one guy doing the Con. There’s the fast talking dealer, at least two or three shill fake players, and at least one look-out for starters.
So at set up, the cardboard box is set up, sometime 2 or 3 are stacked. That way when the call to scatter comes, they can be knocked down to impede chasers.
So the minimum crew, to do it right, was at least 4, with 6 or 7 for Broadway crowds.
Then the rest of the crew ambles after while the dealer starts his patter. In the 70’s in Times Square the best crews were good as actors not strung out junkies that try the grift. The come on was the patter and the shills crowded around the dealer. You had to stop to hear the rift, the “winners” cries of delight, and peer over shoulders to see the play. You had to elbow past the shills with money in hand eager to play.
The shills secondary purpose was to block physical attack if a mark spotted the grift and had friends ready to force the return of “losses”.
On a good day before theater matinees, could be a crowd of 20 to thirty people gathered around..
On a bad day or just around the corner from the Avenue the marks often got their money snatched, tripped or punched so the short crew could split. These were mostly junkies, desperate for quick bucks. One had to be the most naïve of innocents to expose one’s cash to these wrecks.
So hanging around with ID tags on lanyards doesn’t exactly create the necessary stage setting for a money making enterprise.
During the Nixon years I did see a crew of ironworkers take down a 3card crew near Grand Central. Young ironwork made the bets, won 2 or 3 doubled downed rounds, when the rest of the ironworkers, sans hardhats, surrounded the whole scamming crew, forced them against the walls, beat them down and sauntered away with ALL the money. Crowd applauded that show.
Yes aggressive panhandling ruins quality of life. I’m in NOLA for winter and tho they have panhandling it’s mostly with a sign....not aggressive. Also people don’t honk they’re horns here. It’s considered rude. Very nice.
In 1997 Giuliani refused to give in to the police union salary demands.
As a teen during the early 80’s i owned both a a sweet silver 78 Z and a gold 80 Z-28 with T-tops and a gorgeous 78 base model with a 305..
May not of been the fastest out there but all three were absolute beauties.
I miss those cars..
Don’t care. At all. Other people’s business, not mine.
Living in NYC is voluntary. I choose not to live there.
Gambling is voluntary. I choose not to gamble.
Less government means that people will be responsible (what a concept) for their own idiocy.
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