{"id":988,"date":"2009-05-08T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/5\/8\/Trouble-waiting-to-happen"},"modified":"2009-05-08T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T00:51:00","slug":"trouble-waiting-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/trouble-waiting-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble waiting to happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/033106_tropicana.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Not to belittle acts of violence that occur in or near casinos, but we don&apos;t make a practice of reporting them in <em>LVA<\/em>. That&apos;s partly because people seem to need little excuse to kill one another and would just as soon bust a cap in your ass <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=907738\" class=\"broken_link\">at Camp Snoopy<\/a> as in a casino.<\/p>\n<p>However, a deadly early-morning stabbing on the grounds of the <strong>Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong> may warrant closer scrutiny, due to that hotel-casino&apos;s recent history. During a contretemps with then-owner <strong>Columbia Sussex<\/strong>, the <strong>Culinary Union<\/strong> drew attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/lasvegascitylife.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/21\/news\/local_news\/iq_19836351.txt\">an influx of unsavory characters<\/a> during the pre-dawn hours. (An extensive printed report accompanied and considerably enlarged upon the video evidence.)<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the <strong>Nevada Gaming Control Board<\/strong> was probing <a href=\"http:\/\/lasvegascitylife.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/07\/news\/local_news\/iq_19560396.txt\">allegations of security understaffing<\/a>. With interim owner <strong>Tropicana Entertainment<\/strong> still trimming expenses and new manager <strong>Onex Corp<\/strong>. not yet in place, has the ball been dropped again? Perhaps the NGCB should take another look, just to be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to belittle acts of violence that occur in or near casinos, but we don&apos;t make a practice of reporting them in LVA. That&apos;s partly because people seem to need little excuse to kill one another and would just as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/trouble-waiting-to-happen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,28,9,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}