Las Vegas taxi authority arrives at robbery before cops

SOURCES INFORM the INQUIRER that a taxi cab robbery was thwarted by the Las Vegas Taxi Authority (LTVA) many minutes before the cops tipped up.

There have been incidences of taxi robbers bilking the local drivers for quite a while, and the taxi firms took their own decision to pre-empt this.

Several advanced taxi companies have put live webcams into their cabs to ensure that everything is recorded that's going on. Obviously it is slow frame per second techno, but it is fast enough to alert good folks what is going on.

These taxis use advanced technology - including wi-fi - to transmit an image to the HQ in case a poor cabbie has a problem.

In the latest incident in Old Lost Wages, the LVTA tipped up to help out a poor cabbie while the alert was still going out to the local rozzeria.

The cops turned up a long time later, after the incident had been and gone, and we can only suggest that the LVTA cooperate with the Las Vegas Metro Police to avoid further such embarrassing failures of copdom.

After all, the last thing we residents of Fremont Street want are embarrassing incidents which diminish faith in the very reliable LVTA. µ