Oscar Goodman has done a lot of great things for this town.  He is the best mayor we've had in a LONG time.  The cleaning up and growth of downtown, marketing Vegas nationwide if not worldwide.  All help boost this town economy.  It's not a coincidence that we rebounded so quickly from 9/11.

Actually meet the owner of the Bambi hunts across a poker table, I didn't clue him in that I was a provider. And asked a few stupid questions about the business, and he seemed to be the real deal. Sounds like there's some serious back pedaling going on.

I read today that the owner of the "Bambi hunt" admitted that the whole thing was a hoax.

I guess the good mayor isn't as "fricking pitiful" as some thought.

LAS VEGAS (July 26) - A promoter who offered to take men on ``Hunting for Bambi'' safaris in which they could hunt down naked young women with paintball guns admits that it was a hoax and now faces misdemeanor charges, the mayor said Friday.

Promoter Michael Burdick could get six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for operating without a proper business license, Mayor Oscar Goodman said.

``I'll do everything I can to see this man is punished for trying to embarrass Las Vegas,'' Goodman said.

Burdick called the misdemeanor summons a waste of taxpayer money.

``I have a license; it's hanging on my wall,'' Burdick told The Associated Press before cutting off questions and referring inquiries to his lawyer, Craig Mueller, who later declined comment.

Burdick found himself in the crosshairs of women's groups after he told a Las Vegas TV station that he was selling reservations to men willing to pay $5,000 to $10,000 to hunt down naked women in the desert.

Las Vegas officials investigated, and said Burdick admitted that the safaris were just a hoax intended to promote the ``Hunting for Bambi'' videos that Burdick sells. The videos are marketed as depicting nude women being hunted by men who have paid for the privilege.

But the mayor said the videos actually show ``actors and actresses, and there wasn't even the real shooting of paint balls.''

City officials said Burdick sold videotapes through a company owned by his fiance, Lakana Campbell. They said Burdick's name is not listed on a business license application filed by Campbell in June.

John Redlein, an assistant city attorney, said Burdick offered the hunts at high prices to discourage anyone from actually booking a safair, and he told investigators his Internet site could not even accept credit card charges in the amount necessary to reserve a hunt.

The casinos can't stand it when someone brings 10K to town and not planning on putting it into action. That's 10K less the joints can beat someone out of. Obviously someone yanked Oscar's chain, and Oscar did the appropriately Pavlovian thing.

That being said, he's the best thing that's happened to Vegas in a long time because he's really Old Vegas. Folks here don't care for the New Vegas very much. The CPAs who run the joints understand numbers much better than people.