{"id":20670,"date":"2017-11-29T09:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=20670"},"modified":"2022-08-11T07:34:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:34:40","slug":"day-of-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/day-of-the-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of the Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bellagio<\/strong> needs to get serious about security. As has happened multiple times in the past<\/a>, an armed robbery was conducted on the premises, this time at the poker cage, at 3:45 p.m.\u00a0I wouldn’t say casino security stood idly by but they failed yet again to stop a brazen \"\"stickup of the Las Vegas Strip<\/strong>‘s top casino. Players, however, were not so oblivious. Actor James Woods<\/strong> was among the onlookers. Tweeted Woods, “a guy walks up with a gun and robs the cage thirty feet from us ten minutes ago.” Since the suspect was wearing a mask<\/a> and looked like a forlorn member of Cirque du Soleil<\/strong>, one wonders if security was blind to this anomaly or simply absent. The bandit was so confident, he actually valet-parked his getaway car (subsequently abandoned). What if the gun-toting robber had been bent upon shooting people instead? It would have been the second epic fail of MGM Resorts International<\/strong> security in as many months.<\/p>\n

“Those who commit crimes like this on the Strip will be hunted down and whatever amount of cash he got is not enough to face a lifetime in prison,\u201d blustered\u00a0Las Vegas Metro<\/strong>\u00a0Captain John Pelletier<\/strong>. He said Metro was “comfortable and confident” it would get its man, never mind that he got through what passes for a security force at Bellagio. (Somebody needs to be given the sack forthwith.) I don’t know about you but I no longer feel safe at an MGM casino. That will remain the case until the company gets serious about screening for firearms on-property.<\/p>\n

* Speaking of the dangers of gun violence in Las Vegas<\/strong>, an 20-something man\u00a0had his\u00a0life cut short when an argument outside the Four Queens Casino<\/strong> turned fatal<\/a>. (Their is no issue in our society too trivial to be settled with gunplay.) Upon hearing the shot, busker John Deagan<\/strong> \u201cstopped playing and looked over and people were running, so I ducked behind this pillar.\u201d Throw in a shooting spree<\/a> in downtown Reno<\/strong> and Nevada<\/strong> was experiencing an epidemic of violence yesterday.\u00a0“When you heard it’s coming from above it reminds you of the guy shooting from Mandalay Bay<\/strong>,” said one witness<\/a> to the Reno shootout in the casino corridor.\u00a0“It’s scary, you know? This is the same kind of town.” Thankfully, there were no injuries.<\/p>\n

\"\"Speaking of the Mandalay Bay massacre, some of its wounded victims worry that they’ll be excluded from compensation<\/a>, currently prioritized for the families of those who died. “Requiring extensive medical records and ranking pain and suffering on a case-by-case basis would be time intensive,” tut-tuts the Las Vegas Sun<\/em>. God forbid that justice should be dispensed in anything other than haste.<\/p>\n

* It’s not every day that casino regulators go to bat as advocates for the casinos but that’s presently happening in Saipan<\/strong>, where a legislative committee has approved an $800,000 maximum fine for violations of casino law (a compromise, down from $5 million). Pointing to much lower fee maximums in the United States<\/strong>, the Commonwealth Casino Commission<\/strong> is pushing for, at most, a $250,000 cap, equal to Nevada’s. \u201cWe looked at Nevada, New Jersey<\/strong>, Singapore<\/strong> [$$70,422 maximum], Macao<\/strong> [$621,712 max], Australia<\/strong> and South Korea<\/strong> for how much they charge for personal violation versus a company violation,\u201d said CCC Executive Director Edward Deleon Guerrero<\/strong>. \u201cIt is three times higher than any U.S. jurisdiction.” Politicians and regulators might find middle ground in a proposal by CCC member Juan M. Sablan<\/strong>, who pitched $500,000 as an acceptable figure. Whatever the dollar amount winds up being, the bottom line is the same: Don’t screw the pooch in Saipan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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