{"id":131,"date":"2009-09-17T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/9\/17\/Terror-at-Sams-Town"},"modified":"2009-09-17T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T00:33:00","slug":"terror-at-sams-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/terror-at-sams-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror at Sam's Town?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sept. 15, local blogger Flipchip<\/strong> reported that Sam's Town<\/strong> was being swept by a crime wave<\/a>. There was, he wrote, a "rash of robberies<\/em>," including two perpetrated against his wife. She was, he wrote, "then berated by the on-duty slot manager and he implied that since this was her second time to be robbed it was something she was doing that was causing the trouble<\/em>."<\/p>\n

Flipchip's entertainingly lurid chronicle describes the Boyd Gaming<\/strong> flagship property as having "fallen into a state of dereliction along with the surrounding neighborhood<\/em>" (and I was just looking at houses near there), plagued by an "apparent lack of adequate security has made the joint easy pickings for the fleet of foot crooks<\/em>." The blogger has subsequently been inundated with "horror stories of robberies, purse snatchings, and threats from the gangs often seen trekking through the casino<\/em>."<\/p>\n

Having been put wise to this story by Jean Scott<\/strong>, S&G<\/em> rang up Boyd spokesman David Strow<\/strong>, who had seen Flipchip's posting and called it "highly, highly exaggerated." A Sam's Town crime wave? "That's ludicrous," said Strow, who described the problem as being confined to a lone snatch-and-dash bandit who was grabbing small amounts of cash from patrons (ranging from $3 to $100+, in one instance) before getting away. Security officers have long been in place at every Sam's Town exit, Strow added — although that still begs the question of how the Boulder Highway Bandit<\/strong> manages to keep eluding apprehension.<\/p>\n

"Some of this language is completely false," Strow said of Flipchip's narrative, noting in particular the allegations of gang activity. That, he said, is apparently a reference to the casino's younger patrons and "is ludicrous."<\/p>\n

As for the Boulder Highway Bandit, "We are on the lookout for him," stated Strow. "Sam's Town patrons have nothing to worry about when they're on property."<\/p>\n

Well, except for that one guy running around grabbing cash. Moral: Keep your friends close and your money even closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sept. 15, local blogger Flipchip reported that Sam's Town was being swept by a crime wave. There was, he wrote, a "rash of robberies," including two perpetrated against his wife. She was, he wrote, "then berated by the on-duty … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,60,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}