What's the weirdest thing you have seen or has happened to you in Las Vegas?

[Turnip579]

If this has been done before, please just ignore it. I thought it would be intersting to read about what you have seen in the "I can't believe my eyes" category.

I have 2.

#1 This "thing" walks into the 4 Queens mens bathroom and sits in a stall next to me. It is wearing female pumps (shoes) and a dress. Off comes the shoes as it is singing to itself. The toenails are painted blue. It then departs quickly. I never got to see the upper 1/2 which was probably a good thing.

#2. Las Vegas Blvd. In front of T.I. 2 Black men looking to be in their mid 20's pull up in front of T.I. while the pirate show is going on. They stopped, holding up traffic to watch the show. I'm not kidding when I tell you that they stayed there for 15 minutes daring anyone to say anything. Must be from LA or something. No one could get thru the bottle neck. They didn't give a rip.


Your turn.

[Steve]

This week's Topic Of The Week Question is:

What's the weirdest thing you have ever seen or has happened to you in Las Vegas?

[krisfarnsworth]

Well I thought it was weird.

Walking into the Bellagio to check in on Easter Sunday and they had NO POWER. We were to stay there and they said oh it will be on by 2 pm and at 2 still no power finally 3 days later they got their power back and never told guest whiy the power was out in the first place. The weirdest thing was walking through the casino and seeing machines dark and not hearing the noise of the casino. it was so weird I had to take photos because I am sure it is nothing I'll ever see again.

[slicerboy]

The wierdest/funniest thing was being solicited by some of the oldest and uglist hookers I might have ever seen , of course at Caesars Palace. Where else.

[Bottom9th]

Seeing a hot girl being led by another hot girl with a dog leash at Mandalay Bay in 2001. Pretty tame by Vegas standards but I had never seen it before! :)

[PinkFloydActuary]

I really racked my brain on this, but I don't have anything wierd. I have a few gross stories. We were staying at Circus Circus the first year I was there, and one night there was an overpowering smell in our room. One of my buddies brought it up, and so we adjourned to one of the other rooms to continue our discussion. A few minutes later, another member of our party joined us and announced "Well, I found out what that stench was. It was my underwear."

The worst part was he was serious and didn't see anything strange about letting us in on the secret!

[tryon4]

I was playing the .25 slots in Excalibur. This guy sits next to me and starts to play. He was smoking a cigar and I asked if would please blow the smoke the other way. "Oh I'm sorry, I should have asked before I sat down. I'll leave." Says I, "no don't leave just don't blow the smoke ij my face." "No I'm leavin and I appologize." He gets up and starts to leave. "Hey don't forget to take your money."
"you play it" and he disappears. There was $7.50 in credits. Naturally I play em, naturally I hit for $100.00.
Now I try to find cigar smokers:)

[jzaroff]

I was in the Palms, around 4 or 5 PM on a Saturday. It was still light outside. Two very attractive women, mid 20s , with short skirts and high heels walk in the main the entrance. One of them walks over towards the wall, leans against it and removes her panties. The other girl crouches down on the floor, takes out her camera, and snaps a picture at the appropriate angle. The first girl giggles, puts her underwear in her purse and off they go into the casino.

[talanhart]

My buddy and I were in the Binions Horseshoe and we saw this guy lose $30,000 in less than an hour playing black jack. When he was finished, he just got up and walked out.

[plaporta]

I was standing in front of the hotel waiting for my family when I noticed a cab go by -- the phone number was the same as my office number in New York.

[JVegas]

Couple of things

We were down at Freemont Street with the "Experience" going on and a really dirty homeless man and woman starting dancing one the best shags I have ever seen..they could have been pro's..

I was there for one of the rare days of snow..

Also, in front of Ceasars Palace we saw this huge crowd of people gathered around, of course we had to see what was going on. They were all looking at a homeless man was sitting on the curb with a huge live rabbit just sitting beside him, kinda strange..

Oh yeah, does Blue Man Group count???
J.

[meldodds]

one summer we were there for a flood, trying to get our daughter and her husband to the airport, we could get no farther then Hard Rock, where they made everyone get off the road. We stayed there until the road opened enough for the Hard Rock shuttle to go to the airport, they took our Daughter for us. We then headed downtown, as we went up Main Street, the water was coming at us so fast it had white caps, looking west the underpass was completely filled with water. :eek: I was so happy to get to Golden Nugget, I did not want to drive again til we left 3 days later! Thankfully when we had picked up our car, they had upgraded us to a 4 wheel drive or we would have had some serious damage to the vehicle.

[StenoAmy]

April of 2005 on our way to meet Steve and Eileen and the rest of the Everything Las Vegas group at the Imperial Palace...We were going up the escalator over by Barbary Coast when all of a sudden the woman standing behind us starts to tumble backwards, her body as stiff as a board, hitting her head, then feet, head, then feet....she didn't stop tumbling until she hit the bottom...it was terrifying. My husband ran to the top of the escalator and hit the emergency stop button. Two young guys who were near the bottom carried the woman and placed her at the top and called an ambulance. It's my guess she didn't make it. I will never get on an escalator and not hold on to the railing.

[ND Murff]

We arrived in Las Vegas shortly afet 9-11. It must have been a few days after the nation allowed flights to go again. I was driving down the strip and went two blocks, in the area of T.I. , and did not see a car in front of me.
The whole Las Vegas scene was weird and surreal at the time, but going down the strip around noon and not seeing a car for two blocks and never being in any kind of traffic jam for the 4 days we were there still boggle my mind.:confused:

[Kandik]

A guy casually leaning against the bar in Barbary Coast, drinking a cold one, dressed as a superhero.

[stevevarro]

1. Raging river through the casino :eek:
Several years ago I was trying to get into the parking garage at the Imperial Palace. But there was a flash flood in progress and the ground level of their parking garage was flooded. I have heard that this was a common problem for some time (this problem has since been fixed). We got to the edge of the water, it was like a raging out of control river as it flowed through the garage. I understand that one lady in a car was swept away and drown. I've never parked there since.

2. World's fastest busboy :eek:
About 12 to 15 years ago while eating at the restaurant in the old Paddlewheel Casino & Restaurant (now Greek Isles), we noticed a bus boy with a unique way of clearing the tables. He moved so fast, it was like watching a movie in double or triple time. He'd walk up to the taple, look it over, set his tray down and once he started moving it was only seconds before the table was cleared and ready for the next customers. The crowds would cheer him on and I'm sure many people ate there just to watch his "floor show". He was amazing!

[LaVerne]

One time we flew into Las Vegas around 10:00 on a Friday night. We drove to the north end of the strip via LV Blvd. The stoplight in our direction turned red and we had to stop. A man came up beside our car and started peeing on a bush right where everyone could see him.

Then another time we were in the Sahara and these two women got into this very passionate kiss in front of God and the rest of us right in the casino.

Of course, you can see just about anything in Vegas

[YJAJJ]

This week's Topic Of The Week Question is:

What's the weirdest thing you have ever seen or has happened to you in Las Vegas?

Well - this one is easy - Downtown with my adult kids - they were walking around and I just stayed in front of a casino - all of a sudden the cops started running by!

A staff member of the casino said you want to see a dead man hang himself?

Yep he's over there in the parking garage - still swinging!

Needless to say I waited for the kids and went back to the strip!

Jim J MI

[grandmap]

Many years ago my sister in law and I were waiting @ the bus stop in front of the Riv to go downtown. A man came stumbling into the bus stop. He was bleeding. It looked like he had been stabbed. He was speaking Spanish and trying to tell me something but I didn't understand. I assumed that he needed help so I went intro the Riv and got the security guards.:eek:

[Mystek]

Well I thought it was weird.

Walking into the Bellagio to check in on Easter Sunday and they had NO POWER. We were to stay there and they said oh it will be on by 2 pm and at 2 still no power finally 3 days later they got their power back and never told guest whiy the power was out in the first place. The weirdest thing was walking through the casino and seeing machines dark and not hearing the noise of the casino. it was so weird I had to take photos because I am sure it is nothing I'll ever see again.

Yeah, 2005 was a weird year for me. I was there for the blackout of the Bellagio (April I believe). When I returned in July, there was a fire alarm at the Imperial Palace and during New Year's 2006, the power went out at Barbary Coast and a couple of other places. Everything weird was happening to me that calendar year.

Right after the fireworks went off for the New Year, there was someone wearing a Raiders jacket running down the strip past us. We were near the Stardust and then we saw a couple of the biggest security guards chasing the guy. They grabbed the guy and body-slammed him to the pavement. I guess that he tried to rob one of the casinos when the fireworks went off. I guess he didn't realize that the guards watch all money areas specifically at that point in time to prevent robberies. Lol

M

[Boston_Bill]

I've posted this story before. A few years back, St Patrick's Day was on a Sunday I was at the Girls of Glitter Gulch and ended up having to give a statement to Metro because I saw an altercation between a local lady who was not working at the club and a stripper.
The stripper was mad that I was paying attention to someone who wasnt working at the club and they yelled and pushed each other a little bit.
The cop from Metro was funny when he told me they probably wouldnt fly me back for the trial :)


I havent really seen too many weird things. I did see a much younger man trying to pick up a 70 year old woman playing slots at NYNY one afternoon. I still laugh at that.

[nvoldtimer]

Driving on Paradise in mid morning a very pretty gal, who was walking and topless, waved to me. I almost had an accident.

[marmirdc]

We were staying at Harrahs' sometime in the early 90's and were walking thru the casino towards the elevator, when suddenly we were stopped and could go no futher. Someone had called in a bomb threat on the upper level(garage?) and they would not allow anyone upstairs or near the entrance for about 3 hrs. It was kinda scary, as they did not clear out the casino, just blocked people off from one part of the casino.

Mr. Keno

[TommiR]

Serveral years ago my friend and I wnet to Isis at the Luxor for dinner. Our waiter was Rudy. Rudy was full of b.s. and had a line for everything. I ordered a bottle of wine, he knew a famous person that ordered the same wine. Rudy's discriptions of the specials were long and eliquent. but Rudy had a bad little habit. When a bottle of wine was finsished he would twist the bottle up into the air using his signiture line "just a touch of class". This 'twist' left a small portion of the wine left in the bottle, Rudy would take the bottle to a side station and finish the wine himself. This happened many times toughout the night. After dessert we ordered Grand Marnier, Rudy's eyes lit up. Apperently this is poured table side which got the bottle in Rudy's hand. Not only did he pour us 4 times the normal shot, he actually poured some for himself and drank it in front of us, of course complimenting us on our selection. We actually got a 're-fill' on the Grand Marnier. By the time we were ready to leave Rudy had 4 or 5 other tables (way too many for this level of service) and he was over his head. Rudy's descripitons of the specail and gotten short and slurred. We actually had to ask the Captain fot the check. We had a show to see (FX, ok that dates this) and our 4 hour dinner was going to make us late. To date my friend and I rate Rudy as one of the top 3 shows we've seen LOL. I returned the next day to report him to a manager. They listened but didn't seen too concerned.

[KenoCaryl]

Years ago, at the old Sam's Town in Laughlin...One of the workers brought it to my attention...(I was playing a Keno machine) You could look over from the 2nd floor, and see the Craps Table..A man walked in, and they all referred to him as "George from Orange County"....He played $10,000.00...on each roll...Promptly lost $100,000.00...and then walked out to a waiting Limo, and got in, and they drove off..The worker that showed this to me, said he does it quite often, never spends the night, and win or lose he leaves after the 100,000.00 is gone or more has been won...I stood there with my mouth open, as many did...She said no matter how much they offered him a room, and etc...he always declined...Said she had been working there at Sam's Town for about 6 years, and had watched him quite often!! Must be nice to have that kind of Cash!!
KenoCaryl

[SlotCardKing]

I am a security guard at a small, off-Strip hotel. One night I received a call from one of the guests that there was a woman screaming near one of the elevators. I went to investigate and found a completely nude woman (early 20's) standing next to a broken window. She was quite bloody. She said she was "visiting" one of the hotel guests and he refused to pay her for her "services". He had locked her in his bedroom and her only way out was through the window. However, she did not open the window first, before she jumped out. Just then the man in the room opened the door and threw out her jacket and car keys. When I said we should go to the office to call a METRO officer, she jumped into her car (Cadillac, NY plates) and drove off.

[cindyinnj]

Sorry, but I can't think of anything "weird" that I've seen or happened to me in Las Vegas, but I did enjoy reading the other reports. I'm in New York City quite often, so weird to me might not be the same as weird to all of you! ;)

[sandlind]

ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?? I WAS IN A DOWNTOWN CASINO BATHROOM. I'M SURPRISED I'M EVEN GONNA SAY THIS,BUT SOMEONE WAS MASTERBATING IN THE STALL NEXT TO MINE. IT WAS IN THE WOMANS ROOM...........MY GIRLFRIEND USED THE SAME BATHROOM ONE TIME AND SOME GIRL WAS IN THERE NUDE CHANGING CLOTHES. NEEDLESS TO SAY, WE WON'T BE USING THAT BATHROOM AGAIN!!!!!!:eek:

[Nedebpats]

One summer my husband and I were walking down the strip between Alladin and MGM, a little bit ahead of us we could see something in the street by the curb. Just as we came upon a poor homeless man in the gutter the police pulled up and put a sheet over his body. He was dead. I was upset all day.

Debbie:eek:

[LAS VEGAS SPECIALIST]

I was staying at the old Vegas World Hotel while the stratosphere tower was under construction. We were eating diner at the 24 Hr cafe when someone came in and informed us the tower was on fire. We continued to eat our dinner while the fire alarm went off, the power was interupted, ( the waiter brought candles and we continued to eat) and a large amount of the hotels guest paraded by in night clothes with bags in hand, as we were next to the hotels stairwell. We were able to finish diner (I did run out street side to survey the situation) before being asked to evacuate ourselves. We remained outside with a large group of guests and watched the fire burn itself out before being allowed to return to the Hotel. Thankfully this was in the warmer time of the year. I remeber the firemen shooting water off the top of the existing hotel and not even coming close to the fire. I am sure the city must have reviewed their plans for fighting such a fire after that. Luckily no one was hurt, only a few cars damaged due to falling debris.

[iam4nd]

Three things came to mind.

1. We were on the trolley many years ago during a rainstorm and the driver decided to drive on through a raging torrent in the parking lot behind Imperial Palace. We made it, but not without some scary moments. I know my life flashed before my eyes.:confused:

2. Woke up one night at the Riviera to the sound of gunshots, sirens, explosions, screaming. etc. Had that "what should we do" thing racing through my head. Turns out they were filming street scenes for the movie "Con-Air" on the strip in front of the Stardust. Guess we missed the warnings. :o

3. While on the car tour through Red Rock canyon one of the "cute little burros" tried to get inside the front window of the car while we were trying to get a photo of him. Scared the bejeezers out of Cheryl!:eek:

[dreamcatcheril]

What's the weirdest thing you have ever seen or has happened to you in Las Vegas?

Watching Super 8 movies from 1974 of my wife and myself in our bathing suits pool side.
( Stardust )
Watching Super 8 video from 2006 of my wife and myself in our bathing suits pool side.
( NY NY )

[Hbaseballfan]

The first was the Hooker I met at the Flamingo at 130am, after i turned her down I hit a machine for over 100.00. Two nights later we had switched over to the Rio and the same hooker approached me again. This time after i told her no i found 150.00 on the floor in front of the machine I was playing.
I have searched for that hooker ever since.

Second was we were eating breakfast at the Rio buffet when we saw this guy running and then wham, security tackled him and draged him away.
We refer this to breakfast and a floor show.

[Janine926]

Ok, this is hard to put into words without offending anyone but I will try. We were downtown with another couple eating the $7.77 special at LV Club and this smelly guy walked in. He was missing most of his arm but had three fingers on the part he had. My friend offered my husband her pickle and he ate it. Her husband, Ed than said he would have liked to have the pickle (this sounds so funny, I am LOL). Well, this smelly guy heard the conversation and grabbed his pickle with his half arm and three fingers and walked over and slammed it down on Ed's plate and said, "there ya go buddy, you can have mine" The look on Ed's face was priceless.

Also, I saw a little person (dwarf) riding a tricycle in MGM and my dh didn't see it but I know I did, he doesn't believe me.

[Mrs Mac]

Our first trip to Las Vegas in the spring of 1978 we were staying at the Flamingo Hilton. We went through our day's budget before 6:00 am so we were walking, taking in the sights. As we were walking in front of the IP we saw/heard a commotion. Someone had jumped from one of the top floors. So sad.

On a lighter note a few years later - early 80's - we were staying at the Riv. This was one of those "could it be candid camera?" trips. We saw a mid-20ish son standing with his parents in front of a roulette table. In an almost choregraphed move all three bent at the waist to look under the table for the suspected pedal. That same trip we saw a tiny Oriental man dressed elaborately in traditional garb having the best time playing a nickel slot machine. Behind him were 2 of the biggest, armed body guards I had ever seen.
Also on that trip as we were eating at the seafood buffet was a shabbily dressed man filling a baggie with plate after plate of peel and eat shrimp stashing the bag in his backpack. I mentioned that I thought it was kind of disgusting - almost stealing. My hubby said "Oh, maybe he's taking it home to his sick wife". He was serious when he said this. After we finished our meal we went back down to the casino where we saw the shrimp man sitting at a roped off $25 machine playing the max coin in. Maybe he wanted the shrimp for a midnight snack. I told hubby I hoped the guys wife wasn't too hungry.
As we were going to bed that night we followed an arguing couple. The argument was over money. We just about died laughing when the guy looked at his wife and seriously said to her "I gave you $20.00 this morning. What did you do with it?" That's been our catch phrase ever since.

There are no sites like Vegas sites.

[1940GMC]

My husband and I arrived at Mandalay Bay....the wind was blowing, the cabbie wanted to be paid, and the bellman was asking about our luggage. Needless to say, it was a bit frenetic. Anyway, my husband paid the cabbie, we sent the bags off with the luggage handler, and then we realized. My husband's wallet was NOT WITH HIM. We reported it to the head bellman....this sent him off on a search for the cab. Naturally, we couldn't remember what cab line we were on...just that the driver was from Yugoslavia and was heading back to his home country to retire. That bellman ran the length of the cab line downstairs....not finding our cab. He told us that somehow, this always 'rights' itself. We went up to our room....wondering how my husband was going to get back on the plane to get home.....forget the cash & credit cards!!!!

Our bags were delievered promptly. I was on the phone with a family friend telling him about this when my husband yelled. The wallet had been clamped under the retractable handle of his suitcase!!!!! I told him it was as if the hand of God had been on that wallet.

From now on, we BOTH keep tabs on where his wallet is at all times!!!!!

[baileygirl1]

My son and I were walking from the MGM to Hard Rock Cafe and decided to
cross the street to get into the shade. Out of nowwhere a police car came
racing up the street with his lights flashing. We were the only 2 people on the street and no traffic in sight He called us over to his car and gave us a long lecture re: jay walking along with 2 tickets for $50.00 each.
Really put a damper on our annual trip together. Just another donation given to Las Vegas.

[Jacob36]

Let’s see, was there the one year for the flood in March or April, was there the one New Years when someone jumped or fell into the electric wires (forget around what hotel), was also in town after September 11, 2001 when flights resumed.

Another weird one was at the Orleans last year, a hooker wrapped up as if it was 20 degrees below, wearing a winter parka with the hood up :confused: in late April, trying to pick me up.

All ways wonder how much business she got or gets dressed like that.

[lhswayne]

It must have been about 20 years ago when this happened. One afternoon I was in a downtown casino when a woman started screaming that someone was stealing her money. She was playing a dollar machine and someone reached in between the machines and took a couple of the full racks she had placed there. While he was running away, the woman kept on screaming that she was being robbed while continuing to play her dollar machine! You would think she would at least stop playing, but no she kept on pumping dollar tokens into the machine without skipping a beat.

[flamingofun]

Saw Elvis playing a slot machine all by himself at Stardust! but hey, it's VEGAS! I never seen so many Brides in all my life as on New Years Eve! And one evening, it actually rained hard on the Strip. jazroff at Palms~~was it Paris & Britney doing the panty caper?? Viva

[Ohio Linda]

The weirdest thing I ever saw in LV was in July of 1976, it was probably 120 degrees and a woman was walking down LV Bld. in a full length mink coat and leather boots, and mink hat to match her coat. I was in an airconditioned car and was perspiring just watching her.

[Calcat]

A couple of years ago we stayed at the Imperial Palace. It rained all week. The parking lot was like a river. One day I was sitting at a slot machine and I noticed drops of water dripping down on a slot machine 3 stools away from me. I looked up - the ceiling was dripping and looked like it was going to cave in. I called security. They (slowly) found trash cans and put them under the spots that were dripping. They got plastic to cover the machines that were getting wet. And everyone around the "wet" area (except ME) just kept on playing the slots! Strange....very strange!:rolleyes:

[neonmama]

Was playing an "Elvis" machine and this very stinky guy came up and started playing also-- he was dressed as Elvis- white jump suit, gold glasses, big ring and all-- guess it wasn't going so good for him cause all of a sudden he yelled at the machine "F----you E.P." and left- it was funny.....

[Laura H]

Okay this didn't happen offically in Vegas but on a plan back to Vegas. I had flown to visit family in Florida. On the way home on the flight from Houston to Vegas the woman sitting next to me on the plan kept going on about how great Vegas is and how it's such a party town, but how could anyone live there. I was getting really annoyed. I have lived in many tourist towns, so it's not a big deal to me (New Orleans, San Fran, and on the beach in Florida.)

Finally the woman asked me what hotel am I staying at. I tell I live in Vegas. Her question to me then was, "which hotel do you live in?" I could make up my mind to laugh or cry at her. My answer was, "the Real World Suite at the Palms." She believed me and then started asking for discounts. I finally told her my boss would be mad if I did that. That shut her up.

The other was I was at the Hard Rock at the Circle Bar at probably 4 or 5A in the morning on a sat night/sun morning. There were two "working girls" and one kept getting picked up the other did not. After a while one of the guys I was talking to went over to ask the "not busy working girl" about prices. When she stated $300, and he yelled out at the top of his lungs, "You'll pay me $300 for sex with me, hell yeah." The casino actually got quiet for abot 5 seconds.

[vu-doo]

playing single deck blackjack at GN. my friend was dealt aces. he split them.
and got another ace on the split aces. he split them again.and boom the last ace.

all four aces out of a single deck .

he got blackjack on two hands , lost one , and pushed one hand.


as far as weird things that people do. i go to the french quarter in new orleans a lot. so vegas is pretty tame compared to what i see in 'nawlins.

[PinkFloydActuary]

My son and I were walking from the MGM to Hard Rock Cafe and decided to
cross the street to get into the shade. Out of nowwhere a police car came
racing up the street with his lights flashing. We were the only 2 people on the street and no traffic in sight He called us over to his car and gave us a long lecture re: jay walking along with 2 tickets for $50.00 each.
Really put a damper on our annual trip together. Just another donation given to Las Vegas.

We were walking to Ellis Island one night and were waiting to cross at the corner of Koval and Flamingo. Across the way, I guy had just come out of the convienence store with a 12 pack, and decided to cross against the light (no traffic). He missed that there was a policeman right there, who immediately got on the loudspeaker and said "Nice night for jaywalking." Rather than turn around, he kept going and made some snide comment to us about the police. Of course, once the light turned green, the cop came through the intersection and turned on his flashers. We didn't see what happened next - there was $4.95 steak specials to be had!

[PinkFloydActuary]

Another one just came to me...I was crossing over from CP to BC, and as I was coming down the stairs, I saw three guys messing around with something on the ground. Turns out, there was a scorpion walking around, and they were flicking it back and forth with their key cards! :eek:

[emmit1]

My weirdest is pretty tame compared to most of the posts. We flew in one Friday evening and took a shuttle bus with Vegas Club our destination. Naturally we were the last ones off the bus. When we got off the driver pulled out our suitcase - except it wasn't ours. It turned out that somebody at Stratosphere had been so excited that they pointed out the wrong size and pattern bag. It took about 6 hours to get ours back.

[mantic]

Not really as good as a lot of the stories here but:

Two years ago walking down LV Blvd in front of Margaritaville we saw two 'gang-banger' types outside of their vehicle being arrested by Metro. As Metro was frisking and cuffing them the crowd at Margaritaville started singing the "Cops" theme song ("bad boys bad boys...whatcha gonna do when they come for you...").

[patinomaha]

On the first trip I made with my girlfriend, now my wife, in 1995, we where walking to get our luggage in the baggage claim and there was a dead body on the ground covered up with a sheet. It seemed like we were the only ones that even noticed. People were walking and standing 3 feet from the body and getting their luggage without even noticing.

On the next trip we made which was in 1996, we were walking in front of Caesars Palace and there was a older woman who had collapsed in the drive way of Caesars. There was a backup of cabs honking and yelling out of their windows to get her off the road. It was kind of funny and sad at the same time.

[imaplumr]

Was the mid 80's when I made my Maiden voyage to Vegas. Got a good deal on airfare on "Independent Airlines" The trip went about as planned. I spent all my money, plus a bunch on my credit card and was ready to leave broke. Called the airline to make sure flight was on time. It seems they only had 3 aircraft and all 3 where sitting in Boston waiting for parts. Delayed 24 hours. (Its never bad being delayed IN Vegas) They put us up at the Hacienda and gave us some free Buffet coupons. We went into are room and through are bags on the floor. My buddies slid half under the bed, and when he went to get it, He found an 18" DILDO under the bed. We pulled it out with a hanger and hung it up for the maids. I wish I would of had some money, because for 10 or 15 bucks I could of seen REDD FOXX'S XXX rated show there. We went to the airport the next evening(ended up about a 40 Hr. delay) and waited for our plane. It arrived from Chicago with 175 Irrate passengers that sat at O'Hare during the delay. Of course we arrived at O'Hare at 2 am and our ride back to Milwaukee did'nt show. So we walked around the airport with all the bums till 7am till the greyhound station opened.

[imaplumr]

I almost forgot. Independent air gave us free travel vouchers. When we went to use them 6 months later........................You guessed it, OUT OF BUSINESS.

[dscs007]

as far as weird things that people do. i go to the french quarter in new orleans a lot. so vegas is pretty tame compared to what i see in 'nawlins.

I also go to the Big Easy a fair amount so Vegas isn't as weird for me , but when you see a drunk peeing in the elevator .................................

David

[tryon4]

I had forgotten till I read one of the other posts. We were in Vegas from 9/18 to 9/26. Our flight out of Boston was through Dallas. This being one week from 9/11 we thought that there may not be a huge crowd. Boy were we ever right. On the flight from Boston we were 2 of the 3 passengers. 767 and just 3 paying guests. We did pick up 5 more in Dallas but lost the one other fromoriginal flight. Once in Vegas we couldn't believe how dead it was. Casinos were empty for the most part. Shows were closed. Dining rooms were shut. Traffic was nowhere to be seen but service was UNBELIEVABLE.
Heard a cab driver on the TV say that in his 12 hour shift he had 3 fares compared to 40 - 50 prior to 9/11
Did pick up a bit on the weekend but this was as weird as it gets.

[larrygjones]

The weirdest thing that ever happened to me was when a 'Really Hairy' guy in the front row of my show ripped off his shirt and threw it on stage when I started doing my Tom Jones parody impersonation. It busted me up and I could hardly finish the number before me and the rest of the audience had a good laugh with/at him after the song was over! What fun that was. :)


All new website!
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[luvmesumvegas]

1. Elvis driving a pink Cadillac on Tropicana Ave
2. Snow

[dmfam]

December 2006 waiting for the deuce accross from Sahara.This obviously dillusional person wanted his money that we promised him last night on t.v. right before we came down from our blimp.He repeated this constantly for 15 minutes to everyone who walked by. Or maybe the fact that it seems that Pete Rose is always signing something in Vegas.

[tunadz]

Crowded sidewalk across from NYNY, a man ten feet from me lets out a woop and a victory yell to wake the dead. I turn to see a scraggly bearded homeless guy dancing a jig with a 16 ounce Coors in his hand. The sign hung around his neck read, "Work for food, hell...I need a beer!!" Apparently a passing car had obliged, and he just kept screaming, "Somebody gets it!!"

[Vegasfan]

Hey Luvmesumvegas..The guy in the pink Caddy was Eddie Powers also known as the best Elvis in Vegas. He performed the ceremony last year when my wife and I renewed our wedding vows. He will even greet you at the airport if you arrange it in advance.
This may not be particularly weird for Vegas but several years ago my wife and her sister were on the crosswalk by Bellagio and my sister-in-law pointed out to me that the lovely young lady walking in front of me had no underwear on. I don't know why she noticed it and I didn't but I didn't ask questions. I sprang into action and took 2-3 quick pictures of her posterior for posterity. When I got home and had the pictures developed I was disappointed because the light was not at a good angle and you really couldn't tell if she was or wasn't wearing anything under her rather short dress.
I did see at the airport while we were waiting to leave Vegas a very beautiful bald headed woman about 30 years old. She was beautiful even with a completely shaved head. I heard her talking to someone at the airlines and she was there to pick up her son on an incoming flight. I think she must have been a showgirl. She had big hoop earrings on and it looked just right.
That's it.

[BrunoThePug]

Strawberry Flavored Lube
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Staying at the TI with the wife... get into our regular old room that we booked on orbitz. As we're unpacking our things we found a liter of strawberry flavored lube about half empty under the bed. When I got on the floor to see what else was there I found a few condoms (used) and a huge black dildo (like a summer sausage).

When the wife called to complain we got upgraded to a much nicer room with a killer view.

Shake em' Up Shake em' Up Shake em'
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Was playing $10 blackjack at MGM near some craps tables, at least you could hear them, and there was an amazing amount of noise going on. I colored up and went to investigate. It was a $25 min craps table and it was packed with people. These two black dudes were on a huge heater and kept rolling numbers and points. They started with $200 bets... then it was $500 and they kept placing more and more bets and hitting hardways and everything. Total craps insanity.

We walked towards the poker room to checkout the lists and about 2 minutes later we walked back to meetup with some friends and that crazy craps table was totally empty except for the two guys who must have been up to $20,000 at one point. They were now making $25 pass line bets with no odds... seven out... seven out... craps... seven out... seven out...

[catgirl31]

I went to visit my cousin in her hotel room at Aladdin because she hadn't been feeling well for several days and she and her husband hadn't been able to come out and join me and my boyfriend for some fun in Vegas. I was staying at Flamingo and my boyfriend and I walked to Aladdin to visit with my cousin in her room. On our walk back to Flamingo, we "happend to pass by" my cousin's HUSBAND making out in front of Paris with my cousin's "BEST FRIEND" that had joined them on the trip. Weird to say the least. I called my cousin and reported my citing. They're still married two years later with two kids since then and she contributes the citing to her husband and her "best friend" both being really drunk. Not my interpretation of what I saw of the "tonsil-sharing" between her husband and her best friend in front of Paris. I felt I had done my moral duty and told her what I had seen while on my meagar walk back to the Flamingo from Aladdin to visit her since she had been stuck in her room sick for several days.

[Janine926]

Well after about an hour i got a cab and headed back to CP got on the elevator with a bunch of people the door closes i look behind me and there he is.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, then what happened? That's creepy!

[Dkoehn]

There was the time…
When an older man sat down next to me at a blackjack table. This was in the early 1980’s and he was playing stacks of black chips ($100s). He had two very big men standing behind him, watching. I made him out to be mob connected. He was friendly with me and was telling me how his wife and daughter were upstairs in the hotel. He reached over and started rubbing my knee under the table as he was telling me this. Normally there is a way to handle this but I had to reconsider with the two big bodyguards standing there. Within a couple hands, though, I was able to excuse myself and leave the table.

And there was the time…
When my husband was approached by a lovely lady of the night at the Rio. He explained that his wife was traveling with him and in fact he was on his way to meet me. She admonished him, flipping her hair to the side, saying, “Honey, you should not bring your sand when you come to play at the beach.”

And. of course there was the time….
When I got in the middle of a hold up of the Treasure Island Casino cage, but I already wrote about that one (see Topic of the Week: Worst Las Vegas Experience @ http://www.everythinglv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1511&page=2 ).

Donna K in Ohio

[Julie]

My husband and I just got to Harrah's on Monday night in September and since my husband had been treated for Leukemia and was still weak, we went to bed early. Woke up on Tuesday morning to the telephone ringing. It was my son who asked us what we were going to do. Still waking up, I said "what - we're sleeping". He told us to turn on the TV and of course it was 9/11/01 and we couldn't believe what we were seeing. After watching as much as we could, we realized that lot's of plans needed to be made to get us home so we went down to the Lobby. The place was silent, except for all the big screens (used for the sports betting and keno, etc). They were all showing the NY scenes over and over again. People were all watching in shock, and crying. Here we were in the Party Place of America and everyone was emotionally a mess and all of us not knowing what to do next or who to talk to. Luckily we had rented a car when we got in and after realizing we were not going to leave on Thursday by air as planned we were able to drive home to our family.

[LLM]

My first brush with weirdness happened at golden nuggett in 2005, i sat down to playpai-gow and 2 middle-aged men sat down. they were both in town as Vip guests for the TPC at Summerlin and the goldennuggett had given them golf clubs and clothes and private tournies and suites. the first guy was bettinfg about 200$ a hand but "larry" was betting 1500-3000 a hand form a pile of chips that looked to be about 40,000$and he was hollering and whooping it up so bad that they put a security guard right behind the table. I don't know whether it was to protect larry or the public from larry. Larry decided i was not betting enough so every 20 hands or so, he kept giving me a 500$ purple chip to put under my 25-50 dollars and he kept asking me if i wanted to get a free dinner and that his "good friend" the pit boss, who's name he could never get straight would take care of me. i kept trying to give the 500$ chips back and he kept giving them to me. At one point Larry left to go to the bathroom and he took most of his chips with him, when he returned 25 minutes later he had about 45 white chips that i had never seen before. Turns out they were 5,000 chips, he had stopped at the craps table on the way back from the john and was up over 200,000, and now he was really loud and really drunk. i was torn between wanting to stay and watch the spectacle and just knowing that it was going to end badly. i finally begged off to bed and "larry" made the floor man give me a dinner comp to the only thing that was open, the coffee shop. i had shrimp cocktail and prime rib and took the chocolate cake to the room after i almost fell asleep eating it. In the morning i saw larry's buddy at the valet and i asked how they made out, he said larry was up to almost 400,000 and then went back to craps and lost almost everything, but he told me don't worry--"larry had a good time lol.
2nd weirdest thing was listening to the hellacious fight between the couple next door to me at the stratosphere in 2004. i had a free night invitation and was arriving in town after 10 pm so i decided to stay my one and only time at the strat. I got a room in the prison wing that looks out to lv blvd from the base of the tower. it was horrible room, horrible ac and hideous bathroom and just as i started to fall asleep at around 1 am the couple next door started to go. The signature phrase was "you dumb bitch, this is what i get for trying to take you someplace fancy, you make us both look like idiots by trying to steal some lousy silverware" "i just hope they don't call the cops because the name i gave them is your brothers and i just remembered he may still have warrants for that car theft thing" My brain was so twisted with trying to figure out how this was someplace fancy and just what restaraunt did she steal from? top of the world? and how can i make sure that they dont' break into my room and kill me in my sleep that i got almost no sleep that night.


The Atlantic city one was just some truly bad timing. 2003 they had been doing alot of renovations of the streets and i went a new way from the ac expressway over to harrahs. as i went doen the beautifull new street i commented to my friend Linda how nice the neighborhood looked comapred to the last time i was there. At the next light as we waited a guy came running out for some apartments and jumped on our hood just as a police officer was tackling him. Linda jumped almost in the back seat, i was shaken too and luckily the car was a rental because the guy left a dent in the hood from his head being slammed into it by the cop lol
Lara
LLM

[Hornhiyo]

I would have to go with an experience I had at the Luxor. Seven of us on a guys trip. Two rooms next door to each other, the married guys room (4 of us) and the single guys room (3). The whole trip one of the single guys (M) kept harrassing one of my other buddies (B) that he had "promised to get me a hooker." It was all pretty much tongue-in-cheek......... or so we thought.

It's 4am and all is quiet in the "married room." We're all crashed out when somebody starts banging on the door. It's B from the single room. After a few "get lost" and "bugger off's" don't chase him, we let him in. He then proceeds to says something I will never forget, and he will be reminded of the rest of his life,

"I've got two hookers in my room and I don't know what to do."

It seems the three bachelors and their friend Jack Daniels had decided to follow through with the hooker plan. They called a local agency, enquired abouit pricing and "ordered" a couple of girls. When the girls came by they gave them the money ($300) and were then informed by the ladies that now there would be an additional cost if the wanted "services." Evidently, the girls peel their tops off when they walk into the room, so you can get a taste for the wears., but it seems the $300 is for transportation only. Well the fellows had no more money, so they sent B out to hit the ATM, which he had no intention of doing.

We still didn't believe the story until B picked-up the phone to call the room and I could hear a female voice on the other end. The young lady was full of information on which ATM's would let you take out more than your daily limit and also use credit cards. A business savvy hooker, how sweet. :D

A couple of minutes later, there's a knock on the door and M and BJ are standing there.
"where are the girls?"

"still in the room."

The boy geniuses have now left the girls unattended in their room.

They eventually went back to the room like giggling schoolgirls, told the ladies they no more money and sent them on their way $300 richer for the topless "show."

I offered each of them a $1 bill and suggested next time use one of these if you want to see a topless girl in Vegas.

It was one of the most hilarious and bizarre episodes I've ever encountered.

[DaintyCruiser]

My buddy and I were in the Binions Horseshoe and we saw this guy lose $30,000 in less than an hour playing black jack. When he was finished, he just got up and walked out.

The last time I was there, I played craps at the MGM. Stood next to a guy who was betting the table max which was $5000 I think. I saw him play the max for 4 rolls and he lost every one.He then pulled out a wad of cash and said to bet the table maximum. Dice were thrown, he lost and when they were counting out the money, there was about $6000 there. $1000 tip for the dealers; not too bad!