Old Goat on Motorcycle Serves Nevada Justice
In Searchlight, Justice of the Peace Jack Strong, 77, rides a motorcycle to and from duties at an abandoned gas-station courthouse. He recalls 700 marriages in 12 years and $76,000 in fines last year as locals note his colorful, plain-spoken approach to law in the desert town of 500.
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