Turtle Time

How cool would it be to have this guys job! But really, I knew our local news channel (Fox 5 News) was a little goofy but I had no idea that  Stefanie Jay drove the turtle wagon around looking for a good story & chasing the bad-guys around Las Vegas Singing The Ninja Turtles Theme Song:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Heroes in a half-shell
Turtle power!

They're the world's most fearsome fighting team (We're really hip!)
They're heroes in a half-shell and they're green (Hey - get a grip!)
When the evil Shredder attacks
These Turtle boys don't cut him no slack!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Splinter taught them to be ninja teens (He's a radical rat!)
Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines (That's a fact, Jack!)
Raphael is cool but crude (Gimme a break!)
Michaelangelo is a party dude (Party!)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Heroes in a half shell
Turtle power!

And John Huck... What's with the PURPLE man?  Really, you're always wearing a purple shirt or a purple tie. Are you trying to say something without saying something?

What to do in The "Dirty" Desert?

There is a lot more to Las Vegas than "Glamor and Glitz"  Just outside of Summerlin you will find Red Rock National park, (which is directly west of the Red Rock Casino and Hotel)  you can't really ride dirt bikes there, but there are countless numbers of trails in any direction away from the city. If you're on the strip and you want to find a good place to ride, just pick a point on the horizon and go there... you'll find some dirt to play around on.  This picture happens to be just outside of Blue Diamond.

Highly recommended for a breath of fresh air away from the Las Vegas Strip.  And the only money you'll lose here will be what you spend for a rental on a bike.  But then again that's not much of a loss.  But rather a guaranteed good time with great scenery. If you don't already have family in town with gear you may try Motorcycle Rentals

Las Vegas Style Barbi & Teen Pregnancy...

I was shopping the other night with my kids at Target when came upon this silly clad Barbie Classic Doll... It made me think "what the heck are we teaching our children these days?"  Barbie Company is already brainwashing (and has been for years) our children that "Barbie" has the perfect body and that's what girls should look like when they grow up. It all begins when they are young.  Ever wonder why there are more of our kids are getting pregnant these days.

(Victor C. Strasburger, MD University of New Mexico School of Medicine)

Fact: One million teens in the USA will become pregnant over the next twelve months. Ninety-five percent of those pregnancies are unintended. About one third will end in abortion; one third will end in spontaneous miscarriage; and one third will continue their pregnancy to term and keep their baby.
More than half of them are 17 years old or younger when they have their first pregnancy.

Approximately 40 percent of young women become pregnant before they reach 20 years old.
The United States of America has double the adolescent pregnancy and birth rates of any other industrialized country.
The poorer the young woman, the more likely she will become a mother.
Less than one-third of teens who have babies before the age of 18 finish high school.
Almost half of all teen mothers end up on welfare.
Less than 25 percent of births to teens occur within wedlock.
The birth rate for teens has been declining in recent years."

Yikes! Thanks for the Stats Doc. 

Of course we cannot really hold Barbie responsible for any of these stats. It's pretty much all goes back to how the parents raise the kids.  But it bugs me when toy companies make toys like this one which belongs in a Las Vegas Strip Club.

Storm Trooper...

Just in case you lose your way around the Las Vegas strip when you are around harmon and las vegas blvd. near the Harley Davidson Cafe... you could always ask the closest storm trooper for directions.  Some people are just weird you know?  Look at all those people walking around the face of the planet without a storm trooper outfit on!

Mr Miyagi the Security Gaurd in Las Vegas

Mr Miyagi???

Well here is a picture of me with an incredible Mr. Miyagi lookalike as a security guard in an casino in old downtown Las Vegas.

 So when I got home I did a little googleing online to see what I could see about this Mr. Miyagi Karate Master. This is what I came up with.

Mr. Miyagi became famous in Karate Kid movie because of his superior chopstick skills.

 

After his success with Karate Kid, he expanded the horizons of his acting career by taking a crucial role in Karate Kid II.

Then maybe he came to Las Vegas to party....

And now he may be working as a security guard at a hotel in Old Down Town Las Vegas. Or at least his lookalike is working there for sure. Check me out, I got a picture with him! Let me know if you want to know what hotel he works at if you want a picture.

The Oscar Meyer Wiener

 Its here in vegas today!. How would you like to have this guys job? What do you do for a living? "Yes I drive the wiener" -  or on the 15 here in Vegas traffic. "yeah, honey I'll be home in an hour, I'm on the 15 and I'm stuck behind a giant wiener going 15mph"  Wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener!

Las Vegas Wedding Chapel Always and Forever!

One day I ran into this shop and couldn't believe my eyes.  If Kip and Lafawnda didn't live in Idaho I bet you they would have got married here.

Would You Like To Be My Friend???

This lonely dude was cursin' the Las Vegas Boulevard (las vegas strip) looking for some... something.  Note the following; Blue Hair, Large Cigar, Empty Passenger Seat, Flashy Red Car, White Suit, Blue Hair and last but not least, the EMPTY PASSENGER SEAT.   Blue hair dude -"Single ladies of Las Vegas, where you at??? I'm hittin' all the clubs in Vegas tonight!!"

Good luck blue haired dude with the empty passenger seat. Good luck!

Vegas Wheel of Fortune | The Palazzo | Anyone want em?

Adult Sized Big Wheel Bike

Only in Las Vegas will you find a man in his mid 40's riding the streets on a modified big wheel.  What is with some of the people here?

Weekend in Vegas | Good weekend in vegas..... Bad weekend in vegas... ???

Ok, I work with this guy and his hair didn't look like this on the Friday before he came in.... Either he had a really good weekend, or a really bad weekend.  For the record, the following Tuesday his head was shaved.  Guess it didn't fly with the boss.

Cover the earth???

I couldn't help but laugh at this one when I saw it while driving to work. It's a pretty horrible marketing idea in my opinion. Sherman Williams pain, if you couldn't tell. I never really realized that their logo was a bucket of paint spilling over the earth like a giant oil spill killing everything in it's path.  Well thank you Las Vegas Traffic for slowing me down enough to recognize that we don't need to worry about a nuclear warfare bringing the end to our wonderful world, Sherman Williams is planning their attack with billions of buckets of paint.

For the record their logo does have a meaning... according to their website:

Our historical logo is one of the most recognized company logos in existence. Created in the late 1800s, the logo’s purpose was to represent the company’s desire to help beautify and protect the buildings of the world. It was a symbol of a young company’s enthusiasm, idealism and hope regarding its future and the possibility for achievement that hovered on the nation’s horizon.

Very quickly, our “Cover the Earth” logo became a figurative emblem signifying quality, integrity and service — the very same things it stands for today.

Drug Traffic in Las Vegas

The Benefits of Living In Las Vegas

Sin City

Take a good look, this is the only time you'll ever see clouds here in Las Vegas.  It must be a sign that the end of the world is coming soon.  But seriously, I think Al Gore was right

And of course the global warming stuff.  That's why you saw clouds in the sky today.

About: Faces of Las Vegas

My name is Ben and I've lived in Las Vegas for only 2 years.  I'm a sales representative for a local business here in Las Vegas. Every day... all day, I drive around Las Vegas looking for businesses that need my companies services.  I visit every casino, restaurant, hotel or any other local business at least once every two years.  Sounds boring, but really it's not that bad.  In fact one of the things that has made my job so interesting is seeing the weird things, people, places, animals, graffiti, billboards, and pretty much everything else abnormal that you would find in a larger metropolis such as Las Vegas. 

Because I'm relatively new to Vegas, most things I see are weird to me.  I started taking pictures of each things that I thought were interesting.  Thought it'd be a good idea to make a blog about them, featuring these pictures I take.  From the good, bad, happy, sad, pretty, ugly and everything else in between. If you're face ends up on here... hope you don't mind on one hand, and congratulations on the other!

Enjoy the Faces of Las Vegas!