Freeway graffiti is a serious problem, and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has the solution: Cut off the thumbs of those who deface freeways on television. “You know, we have a beautiful highway landscaping redevelopment in our downtown. We have desert tortoises and beautiful paintings of flora and fauna. These punks come along and deface it,” griped Goodman, on the Nevada Newsmakers television show. “I’m saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb,” the mayor added, also noting that, “In the old days in France, they had beheading of people who commit heinous crimes.” Another panelist on the show, state university system regent Howard Rosenberg, countered that Goodman’s suggestion is not a viable solution, and encouraged the mayor to “use his head for something other than a hat rack.”
Why not make those apprehended clean off the graffiti?