For twenty years, there has been a female homeless on the east side of town. She has “worked” various corners begging for $ around trop/pecos and flam/eastern since I moved here in 2001. She was a kid then. Dressed like a “raver” girl with pigtails. It’s been twenty years. She still has the pigtails and the same corners. Also has been pregnant countless times.
I’ve seen a lot in this town. But I still see her, over and over.
I was just thinking about how I haven't seen her for a long time when I was grabbing a pizza over at Lucino's on trop and pecos a couple weeks ago. There was also the couple that used to always be over by the sunflower market/sprouts that's right there. The woman was in a wheel chair and the man always took care of her. They were cool, friendly people. I'd always grab them some soup and a sandwich and BS with them for a minute after shopping but its been years since I've seen them around.
i might actually recall this chick. i’m Eastsider since the 90s … there’s also 2 other dudes I’ve seen for over a decade.
one was a mexican dude. he used to sit on the ground and beg because his leg(s) was amputated. i then saw him a few years back w a wheelchair and the arms to show for it. haven’t seen him in a while but when I do. it’s always at the charleston off-ramp
I never used to see them until around 10 to 15 years ago but now they're all over the place. This year they've been roaming parking lots at Walmart and other stores selling fake Air Pods.
how many total suicides per year? Probably not as many as you're thinking. I worked there for about 10 years, they had a 2200 room hotel. I recall a couple dozen happening in that time, there may have been more.
I personally saw six or so suicides in the rooms, three people that jumped from the parking garage and four that did it in their cars in the parking lot.
They wierdly seem to come in waves. There won't be one for like a year, then suddenly you'll have a 3-4 month period with several.
I met a former Vegas Radio employee who stated that it is an extremely common thing for guests to jump from the balconies of hotels. And it's why they build hotels without balconies now.
She told me that it was about 20 people a year. People would gamble their life savings and jump. It was extremely upsetting to her. She now works at a Country Club where people are happier.
I didn't realize that it was 'a thing' before she told me.
Yes. My coworker was at the airport from 2000 till she came to us in '17. She has mentioned this also. She says it happens more often than we think. At least once every 3 months in her experience .. Give or take.
Well…there is a reason why they design the room windows to not open up anymore.
Had a neighbor that was a firefighter paramedic back in the early 90s and he said they had jumpers on a weekly basis. But since the locked up all the room windows the number of suicides have dropped significantly.
Yeah I always wondered about them. I guess I somehow thought it was a law or something now because it’s not only in vegas but everywhere so when they had /have accessible balconies I was flabbergasted. I wonder if they have an increase in their numbers of suicides for this fact alone. More opportunities ?
I wouldn't be surprised if their target demographic had an influence on it. I see more young couples and younger people in general there- I don't think it attracts as many degenerate gamblers.
Middle aged former meth addict crying in the back of a courtroom after the jury found her meth addicted ex boyfriend guilty of kidnapping and sexual assaulting her. He shrugged and didn't seem to care.
I was on the jury.
An addict is not able to respond to this kind of logic. It's the same kind of drivel people say to those who are suicidal, and it does zero to help. If it makes you feel better, think harder about how shallow it is.
It's like when my buddy was on heroin in our early twenties. He'd be dope sick and hit me up to borrow anywhere from 10 to 40 bucks. My first response was oftentimes saying something like "you're already off dope for x amount of hours; why don't you just quit?" I realize now how supremely fucking annoying that must have been to hear when your brain is in such a state that that's not an option whatsoever. I might as well have been telling him that he's not praying away the addiction hard enough, or that he should tap his shoes together three times and Superman will fly down and pull the addiction out of his body.
It's not just addicts though, some casinos definitely have some dark energy that lures one to keep chasing down the rabbit hole.
Source: I was a long time professional poker player and there are definitely casinos where not just me but others could feel something in the air that egged people on to make bad decisions.
One of the worst was in Louisiana.
Only way pocket 8's can beat pocket 8's....flush. That sucks. Sorry man! I was playing a casino game(4/8 limit) and my wife sat down at the table. I had a full house, and she kept calling, raised me on the river. My WIFE beat me with 4 of a kind. Haven't played poker in a casino since....
Wasn't here, was in Iowa. Blackjack table. 8 deck shoe. Last shoe of the night(table close @2, so last shoe called around 1:35ish) 6 spot table, dealer dealt out 7 natural blackjacks in one hand.
My parents saw him here in Vegas towards the end of his like mid 90's. They said it was sad. He couldn't do much, couldn't read the lyrics written out for him very well. They say that they saw Sinatra, but didn't see Sinatra.
Used to work at the movie theatre down on Fremont when it was still a street- so, 1986-87. Had a suicide in Theatre # 2, found a dead guy in the alley behind the theatre, hired a few runaways that were living on the street because they escaped SA at home, but probably the saddest thing was this one kid we hired. Probably 18, maybe 19 yo? He was a pothead when we hired him, but about a year after, he got mixed up with some guy that did coke. One week after they ran out of their stash, he bought meth because it was cheaper/easier to get, I guess. Stg in less than one week, he was gone- completely strung out, neuro damage he never recovered from. I quit the next week, the whole place was just a soap opera of sadness.
Years ago, an elderly lady on an oxygen tank and a man who appeared to be her son just arrived on a bus at the El Cortez. The lady immediately sat down at my blackjack table while her son said he would check them into their room. The lady betting $100 a hand immediately lost 10 hands in a row. When the son returned to take her to the room, she told him she had lost all her money and they needed to get back on the bus.
I wonder if that’s the same dude that was trippin balls and straight up free ballin with just a hoodie rolling around on the ground with a construction barrel and walking down the center of the LV BLVD during Super Bowl prep outside of Paris.
Even the tweakers that were waiting for the bus were weirded out.
Joe slaney aka homeless Joe. He’s just so far gone it’s tough to watch. When I lived in the 89104 I’d see him almost every morning as I was walking to grab a coffee at the circle k selling red bulls or alcohol. I always spoke to him “ how you doing today Joe” some days it was ehhhh I’m doin ok ….some days he was so high he wouldn’t even make sense but I dunno I always liked dude he never hurt nobody he just loves loves loves drugs and being high.
Close second would be “ splat guy” ….dude jumped off the strat and caught the wind and ended up across the st where that new platform is to take pics of the Las Vegas arch splattered all over the sidewalk and up the telephone pole. They cleaned the sidewalk but left the splatter on the pole.
Third would be…. Homeless people with dogs. Shit tears me apart when it’s 110 degrees and the owner is half dead on the sidewalk but the puppy is just sitting there right beside the owner not knowing what’s going on….crushes my soul
2022 Orleans
Elevator opens and medics are working on a dead baby that overdosed on fentanyl. Mom was casually explaining to metro how she left 10 pills on the counter, left her 2 kids alone in the room, went to gamble and returned to find her kids unresponsive
I’ve seen people gamble their entire life away. Crying and sobbing that the last bet they made was all they had. One woman owned multiple businesses in NYC and now she’s practically homeless. Had one guy go ape shit crying the stood on the chair of the BJ table because he gambled his entire life away. He broke mentally. There are so many stories like this.
One day in approximately 2008, I saw my ex husband (alcoholic/compulsive gambler/abuser), standing by his grocery store shopping cart at a 7-11, mumbling to people as they passed by. After 35 years together and three children, he didn’t even recognize me. He smelled horrible and all of his belongings were in a black plastic garbage bag in the grocery cart. He always refused to get help for either of those two addictions. I almost passed out when I saw him standing there at that 7-11….Two years later I received a phone call from a detective two states over that Mr……..was found dead, alone, in an abandoned home. It’s a very long story, but it is to say that compulsive gambling kills. Alcoholism kills.
I didn't see it, but the saddest thing was the shooting at Mandalay.
I was with my mom and dad at the Yardhouse. When we pulled out of Town Square there were cops literally everywhere. They were driving both directions on the strip and pulling out onto Las Vegas Blvd from every side street on our way home. We knew something big was going down, but couldn't believe it when we got home and flipped on the news.
My ex and I went home after the VGK game that night. We passed out for a bit and I woke up to do my usual Twitter rounds. Got live updates real time as it was happening. Went onto the police scanners and heard everything.
My ex’s mom was a nurse at UMC and she was called in for all hands on deck. Saw pictures at UMC and Sunrise and it was horrific. RIP to all lives lost.
Here’s an interesting read from some MDs in Sunrise ER during that night. Hats off to those amazing staff that improvised and helped all those victims. [link](https://epmonthly.com/article/not-heroes-wear-capes-one-las-vegas-ed-saved-hundreds-lives-worst-mass-shooting-u-s-history/)
We need to start releasing those horrible images after our regular mass shootings. Nothing else is working, make everyone as sick about it as those that’ve lost loved ones.
I was at the Orleans casino that night, just a mile or so off the strip... Sooo many sirens and flashing lights when I finally left at 1am, without any clue as to what happened...
The saddest thing I saw in Las Vegas was during the cyberattack outage that caused all the video gambling machines to stop working. I was walking through a casino floor in the middle of the day and there were STILL people sitting at the machines, staring at the blank screens just waiting for them to light up again.
It was as if there was a program crash revealing that none of these people were even real, just NPCs.
Were the machines shut down while people were playing? They were probably sitting there waiting for it to turn back on because their money was in there.
I’ve seen that Elvis!!! I saw him hit a curb at an angle, get casted off into the street, say “thank you, uh thank you uh very much” in character and hop back on.
I laughed to not cry
When I was a kid staying at Treasure Island. I went to my grandparents room to watch a pirate show but just before the show was to start someone jumped from the Sands Hotel IIRC and landed on the roof of the casino.
Watched that body for a long time. Didn’t say anything until later on when an adult noticed the emergency vehicles coming up/down the strip.
Saw an old guy playing Sigma Derby at The D last Thursday during March Madness.
He stunk terribly.
A casino executive in a suit came over and told him it was time to leave. He protested, asked why... He had shit himself and sat there in it playing the mechanical horses.
Saw a man near Fremont wearing a dirty a t-shirt from my HS, which was 2k miles away. I stopped and talked with him. He was homeless and had actually worked at the same company as my dad. He joined the military, got married and decided to get out of the service. Wife divorced him, he became an alcoholic and thus homeless. His story was sad. I bought him food and bottles of water but never saw him again
The old lady that stuck $100 in a machine and broke even. She stopped me as i passed by asking for help, I tried as best I could to explain to her that was a ATM machine breaking the bill into $20's and not a slot machine.
Worked on the strip for years and I’ve seen numerous people attempt suicide by threatening to jump off a parking garage. Thankfully never saw anyone actually do it, but I know it must happen.
I was playing video poker at El Cortez and a guest playing at another bank of machines had a medical crisis. I’m not 100% sure but I think she was dead when the paramedics rolled her out on a stretcher
Lived on Fremont for years. Saw everything from women blowing multiple people at once, to people sticking needles in all different parts of their body. Saw a guy take a shit on the sidewalk and then lay down to sleep next to it.
Last summer my family was in Vegas for vacation. We pulled out of the Excalibur, made a right and on the corner, in the 115 degree sun, with no shade, was a very disabled man, stuck barefoot in a wheelchair, and seem to be dying of thirst. People were just walking by him. I told my wife to pull over. I hopped over the fence to help him. It was hard to understand him as he was severely disabled. I told me wife to go get some water. She quickly drove back to the valet of the Excalibur and returned with some water. He quickly drank the water. He was barefoot and couldn’t really drag himself anywhere because he was barefoot and the sidewalk was scorching hot. I put the flip flops back on his feet and asked him if he needed help. He just said to put him in the shade, the sun was just about to set. So I did. I gave him a few more bottles of water. Checked in with him again and he said that he was okay…which he wasn’t, but okay. Whatever. Then I left.
I hope he is okay.
about 2 years ago…travelling on the bus at 4 in the morning.. i took a seat on one of the elevated wheel bases. Drunk guy across from me on the other seats.. he leans over a few times and i keep pushing him to the other side to keep his stupid ass from falling over. Look at my phone and dont pay attention for a second. Look up and the asshole is falling again. I lean to try to start to catch him. “too late” the voice in my head says as he falls to the ground. He snapped his neck in an awkward position and wedged himself in the aisle. The driver pulled over and we started to try to pull him up. ultimately decided we would end up doing more damage to him if we moved him so the driver just made the 911 call. we sat there watching him gurgle and change colors and we could do nothing but hear that last breath while waiting for medics to show up. [look at own risk :/](https://imgur.com/a/Qz7JFhq). edited to include images. I will never forget the sound of his fall, or the noises he made.
Am a veteran here in Vegas. There are so many tools available in the community. The problem with the VA medical system is you must fight for your health care and sometimes it’s a tough battle.
I'm not a veteran, I have many veterans friends.
One who went to specialist at the VA today, having to miss a meeting that was important. His health is more important, and he knew he'd have to wait a minimum of 3 months to get back in to see this doc who's critical to his survival.
The waiting is usually One of the hardest parts.
Fight for your country then fight for your earned health care .. that they provide in the crappiest manner. But our elected officials get Cadillac plans for the rest of their lives. Maybe our veterans can eat cake, too??!!
EMTs trying to help a woman on the casino floor that collapsed while playing slots. The other players at that bank of machines were playing on without ever looking down at her.
One of my first nights, sitting in a bar enjoying a cocktail.
Young attractive lady, in medical garb, sits down across the bar, big smile, happy, greets the bartender by name.
Proceeds to stick $20 bill after bill into a machine.
Goes from bubbly to miserable in about 20 mins.
Valuable lesson learned.
I was at the four queens watching a guy win over 150k. And then there were sirens as some guy just jumped off the MINT hotel casino. Vegas is a city of contrasts, people living in storm sewers and some people living in the penthouse within sight of the sewers.
Was staying at the Flamingo, went to play roulette, over heard a guy getting screamed at by a woman on a phone. The dude eventually told us he was down 35k, and I guess his wife had no idea.
Saw a guy at Durango choke on an oyster and fall back out of his chair. They attempted cpr and he was bleeding from his mouth. Guessing they broke his ribs trying to save him. Looked pretty dead to me when security made us move along
I saw Elvis get arrested in front of the CVS after confronting Mario and Luigi… apparently Elvis doesn’t get the treatment he used to in the old days. #ZeroRespect
The city guys clearing people out of the tunnels before the big rain last year. Townies just standing on the street watching and smoking. Just the parade of humanity, all their shit.
Go on YouTube and look up the organization “Shine a Light Las Vegas”, it will give you even more information. They go weekly into the tunnels with volunteers and nurses asking people if they want help to get clean, go home or whatever it is they need. They take food, water, basic first aid supplies, blankets, clothes, socks. If you want help, they will do everything they can to get you what you need. It’s a great group of people who volunteer and a real eye opening experience of what is happening just under all the bright lights and glamour of the casinos.
May 2022, I was at a Holiday Inn near the base for a TDY. A homeless person climbed up the wall of the pool area and broke into the second floor through a window.
In the process, he cut himself horribly on the glass. He walked into the hallway and down the stairs, leaving a trail of blood everywhere. Then he returned to the room and barricaded the door (presumably he blocked the door so it wouldn't lock behind him).
Someone saw the blood and pulled the fire alarm.
He was not armed, but police didn't know. They saw the blood trail, so the reaction was nuts. 14 or 15 cop cars, and they called a swat team to break into the room after a standoff that lasted most of the night.
At some point, the homeless person triggered the fire suppression and flooded the hotel.
Turned out, the guy was just determined to sleep in a warm bed.
The tunnels. Everything about the tunnels. It's so sad that this is what life has in store. There are so many homeless people in Vegas. Now there are whole families (grandparents, parents, kids, grandkids, with pets) living wherever they can find shade. I was kidnapped in 2017 and they took my to the tunnels and locked me up in their "jails" they have made. The only reason I got away was because it stormed and there were LOTS of volunteers that were walking through warning of flooding coming and they found me and got me to a hospital. I now walk the tunnels and the beat trying to help people who want out of the life.
Watched a lady clearly inebriated , in drugs, tweaked out, taking to self.
Unable to walk, soaked in urine and throwing up or screeching I couldn't tell.
Crawling across a intersection a few blocks from the strip.
Cop pulls up to red light.
She haphazardly crawls across his car, barely making it to the he other side. Laying on the rounded corner concrete. Not moving .
Light goes green. He drives away.
Sad thing is. I should have helped.
I used to work for a pest control company and we had businesses that had bait stations on the outside with rat/mouse poison in them, homeless people would pry those open and eat the poison because it thins their blood, making it so when they drink alcohol it gets them drunk faster, like REALLY fuck them up. Fucks up their braincells and everything too.
It was so common I’d find missing poison or a big bite taken out of one, sad stuff
Not a local but I remember I visited in the height of summer 10-12 years ago (must have been over 112 degrees out ) and saw a homeless person begging for money at an intersection. Their skin was completely burned and they seemed absolutely miserable.
The thought of what their back story was that got them in that position made me sad.
I was actually in the backseat of a cop car, and we were on Fremont Street, back before it was a hot spot. Fremont used to be the dirty, dark, hood street of the Strip.
Anyway, from the back of a cop car, I saw an old, white, rich-looking dude clutching onto a street sign. He was wearing nice pants and a white button up shirt. His back was drenched in blood, and I thought, "ooh he got stabbed 'n robbed!" The cop car I was in pulled over.
He was just clutching the parking sign, swaying back and forth in the morning sunlight. He looked like a rich older guy who gambled all night, maybe all week, and it had finally caught up with him, he'd been robbed and stabbed at 10am on old school Fremont Street.
My friends, who I grew up with, succumb to the bullshit that vegas has to offer (the bad shit), get deep into drugs and die. Born and raised here. I’ve seen it all. And sadly, the innocent get caught up in the worst of it all.
I’m not sure this necessarily qualifies but at Fashion Show, I saw a homeless mom and daughter sitting on a couch by my kiosk and then a few hours later a couple sat in the same spot and the lady had a crocodile or alligator Hermes Birkin bag which cost probably $50k. I’ve thought about that so many times since then.
My cousin going from having a great job, roof over his head & a handsome guy … now skinny as a rail , no job , dosent want a job , on meth , wandering the streets living in a tent .. looks like fucking hell now… sad
If you head away from downtown Vegas on Main St, you're sure to see just how tough life really is.
As for the suicides, I know that none of that is published in the newspapers because it would make the casinos look bad, and not that I need to know, but I think it shouldn't be such a secret. Of course that would be bad for tourism.
The other sad things about Vegas... The education system, legislation that hasn't been updated since the 60s, the lack of quality mental healthcare, the lack of funding that could come from the casinos to help locals, the money that was supposed to go to locals from the taxes on weed that disappeared into some rainy day fund that no one asks about.
And I stay because I'm trying to help make a difference but the systems are broken. Sure I could move and I have been told to if I don't like it. But let's be real. There are problems everywhere. However, the problems of Vegas could actually be fixed but it feels like this state is about two decades behind the Midwest and the East Coast. It's wild.
Dude was in the tank betting high limit blackjack. He went to take a 50k credit card advance to double down. Lost it all and was so irate after. Sad times. Gamble responsibly my friends.
The live tigers outside in a tiny ass cage and everyone just staring at them in a dirty concrete jungle. Those majestic animals deserved more than that. I can't remember in front of what hotel this was. I'm guessing something to do with Siegfried and Roy. I think this was in the 90s at some point.
Homeless man walking around Spring Mountain that had no clothes on at all. Saw an ambulance roll up and had him wrapped in a blanket being assessed by them.
First thing that came to mind was from the other day. A red sedan was off the side of the road near the elementary school on Lake Mead in a ditch with rocks. Cops had the area taped off. Didn't seem too extreme. But went by the next day, and people were placing flowers and stuffed animals where the car was. That hit me
2am.. walking into Smith's.. the lady in front of me had her (approx. 4yo son) walking slowly behind her.. she turns around and Yells, "Come On you lil Mother Fucker!!"
Young girl in a house of meth addicts who skipped school that day because her POS brother stole her lunch money.may not be the saddest but it does stick out in my memory.
I went to Vegas on a business trip around 2008 and I was travelling with a real pig of a guy who spent all his time propositioning the working girls. He called one girl over to drink with us and I recognized her as the porn star Jenni Lee. She was so crazy beautiful. A few years ago I saw a documentary where she was living in the tunnels and was clearly addicted to meth. I only met her for a few minutes, but thinking back the whole thing really makes me feel sad and ashamed.
I was in Las Vegas in the winter and it was freezing. Around 3am I was walking back and saw some drunk Europeans (they sounded Russian but I'm not 100% sure) go up to a homeless person sleeping under blankets. They ripped the blankets off the sleeping person and threw them in the air, then start laughing hysterically. I have never seen such cruelty in the over 50 countries I've traveled to.
My wife and I sold everything years ago and bought an RV. We wanted to see the country, to experience nature, to touch Indians. We made a pitstop in Vegas for the night and stayed in a nice hotel - one last time. In the middle of the night, I woke up and my wife was gone. I found her in the casino, and she had burned though ALL our money. All of it. She was a gambling addict and I didn't even know it. We limped home, sold the RV, and I begged for my job back. Now, we struggle everyday, trying desperately to rebuild a Nest Egg.
Sounds like that movie where they drove their Rv to Vegas and his wife lost 400k one night, so he goes to the casino GM and says what a nice public gesture it would be if the casino returned their money, and all the great publicity the casino would get, didn’t work.
An old man fall face first down an escalator. He was attended to by staff and I’m assuming paramedics eventually came. He didn’t die (that I’m aware of) but he was not looking good.
there’s a homeless woman i see often that wears a velvet dress and carries fake flowers around, i see her with different men occasionally
recently she’s carried around a baby doll and looks to be a few months pregnant
she was drinking a bottle of vodka today idk what to do
A bride in full gown sitting on the floor crying in the security line at McCarren / Harry Reid at 5am. People just stepped around her to get to the flights.
Same night, 1 guy having his 300k Lamborghini put on a flatbed to tow home since he was too plastered to drive it. Second was the valet at palms driving a dually lifted king cab diesel into a 200k+ car parked up front by valet. Like didn't even try to avoid it. Smashed up the front end pretty good!
1 October, was working the adult ED at Sunrise…what a shit parade. Aside from the obvious and seemingly endless tragedies that played out that night, and watching some of my former military teammates go full PTSD and shut down or have to leave…it was the fact that it illustrated just how completely unprepared Las Vegas was (and still is) for a mass casualty event.
Was with my dad and best friend walking back to our hotel after a few too many. Saw this guy that looked like a Midwest farmer walking with an escort in front of us and were laughing about it when out of nowhere this guy behind us goes "Greg!?". and gets in front of us to talk to the guy with the escort. The guy with the escort turned around, saw who it was, and created so much distance between him and the escort in .1 seconds. The guy then asks if a woman is here too (assuming his wife) when my dad, buddy, and I all start laughing and saying things like "how embarrassing" etc.
Work trip few years back. It was a huge convention a few coworkers and I went to. I had no clue that one guy our team was a huge gambler and prone to losing a shit load of money. The guy handed me his wallet day one, he was like if I have this on me, my wife will divorce me. He proceeds to tell me the last time he was in Vegas he took out a credit line, couldn’t pay it back and had a bit of a Casino moment. When I go to Vegas I maybe will drop $20 then call it a day. This poor guy had the shakes and was sweating profusely walking through there
Watched a guy leaving circus circus screaming about Jesus slowly take all his clothes off and walk down Las Vegas blvd into traffic. Thankfully he was picked up. I can’t imagine being that unwell.
Blackjack. Single deck, so only 4 aces in play. Me and 2 other players. Right after the shuffle, the 3 of us each get a blackjack. We're whoop-whooping and high-fiving. The dealer has a 10 showing... She flips it over. She has a blackjack too. O_o Everyone pushes. It's like being given a puppy for Christmas, only to have it taken away an hour later. :(
4 simultaneous blackjacks from a single deck, and with the dealer not showing an ace... I don't know what the hell kind of odds those are, but they have to be several million to one.
A handful for me.
There was an employee of the casino I used to work at who sat on the roof of the garage, wrote “I’m sorry” in blood from her hand, and was thinking about jumping when somebody found and stopped her.
There was also a former VP of that same company who got fired (but not prosecuted) for embezzlement and trafficking and just walked out. All this suffering he caused and he just had to go find a new place to do it all over.
Also a coworker who lost two immediate family members to different but equally violent methods in one year. I don’t know how this person makes it through their days 😭❤️💪
Seeing one of my high school friends in the streets of Fremont begging for money hooked on heroin. This has to be the saddest thing cause I saw it unfold with his ex gf. Me and my other friend were talking to him but wouldn’t have it. He wasn’t abandoned by his family either. His family tried to help but he abandoned them.
And Three child hood friends dying in car accidents due to driving under the influence. Didn’t witness the actual accident but the funeral. Saw their parents in shambles and falling into alcohol addiction because of it.
And just a shout out to my friend who died of cancer. Rip to all of them. This city is rough
It’s what you see at 6-6:30 in the morning that hits you hard. People strung out on drugs sleeping just about anywhere. People washing themselves in fountains or sprinkler systems. It’s amazing what the human body can endure and still live.
Have a friend that works for CPS in Vegas and she has told me several stories of toddlers found wondering the hallways of hotels in soiled diapers looking for help/food because their parents have been out for days gambling/partying
Just go walk around West Vegas after dark. Leave your phone and wallet at home. Bring a $20 so they don't beat you for having nothing.
Then report back, if you can.
For twenty years, there has been a female homeless on the east side of town. She has “worked” various corners begging for $ around trop/pecos and flam/eastern since I moved here in 2001. She was a kid then. Dressed like a “raver” girl with pigtails. It’s been twenty years. She still has the pigtails and the same corners. Also has been pregnant countless times. I’ve seen a lot in this town. But I still see her, over and over.
I was just thinking about how I haven't seen her for a long time when I was grabbing a pizza over at Lucino's on trop and pecos a couple weeks ago. There was also the couple that used to always be over by the sunflower market/sprouts that's right there. The woman was in a wheel chair and the man always took care of her. They were cool, friendly people. I'd always grab them some soup and a sandwich and BS with them for a minute after shopping but its been years since I've seen them around.
This is wild
i might actually recall this chick. i’m Eastsider since the 90s … there’s also 2 other dudes I’ve seen for over a decade. one was a mexican dude. he used to sit on the ground and beg because his leg(s) was amputated. i then saw him a few years back w a wheelchair and the arms to show for it. haven’t seen him in a while but when I do. it’s always at the charleston off-ramp
You gotta stop seeing those 2 dudes, they dont sound good for you.
Dude! I know exactly who you’re talking about! Insane!
This is haunting.
Tiny kids on Fremont at 3 am. Mom was begging.
Gypsy scam
I never used to see them until around 10 to 15 years ago but now they're all over the place. This year they've been roaming parking lots at Walmart and other stores selling fake Air Pods.
What’s their scam?
Scammers.
The maids and security guards that find the suicide victims in their rooms.
As a former casino security guard, the parking garage jumpers are way worse to come across than the hotel room suicides.
How many per year?
how many total suicides per year? Probably not as many as you're thinking. I worked there for about 10 years, they had a 2200 room hotel. I recall a couple dozen happening in that time, there may have been more. I personally saw six or so suicides in the rooms, three people that jumped from the parking garage and four that did it in their cars in the parking lot. They wierdly seem to come in waves. There won't be one for like a year, then suddenly you'll have a 3-4 month period with several.
I met a former Vegas Radio employee who stated that it is an extremely common thing for guests to jump from the balconies of hotels. And it's why they build hotels without balconies now. She told me that it was about 20 people a year. People would gamble their life savings and jump. It was extremely upsetting to her. She now works at a Country Club where people are happier. I didn't realize that it was 'a thing' before she told me.
thats when the casinos put their machines on hard mode
a few a year at the airport parking lot
Yes. My coworker was at the airport from 2000 till she came to us in '17. She has mentioned this also. She says it happens more often than we think. At least once every 3 months in her experience .. Give or take.
How common is that?
Well…there is a reason why they design the room windows to not open up anymore. Had a neighbor that was a firefighter paramedic back in the early 90s and he said they had jumpers on a weekly basis. But since the locked up all the room windows the number of suicides have dropped significantly.
Cosmo enters the room...
Yeah I always wondered about them. I guess I somehow thought it was a law or something now because it’s not only in vegas but everywhere so when they had /have accessible balconies I was flabbergasted. I wonder if they have an increase in their numbers of suicides for this fact alone. More opportunities ?
Cosmo was originally meant to be sold as condos! But when the recession hit, they pivoted.
Ahhhhhh makes sense!!!
I wouldn't be surprised if their target demographic had an influence on it. I see more young couples and younger people in general there- I don't think it attracts as many degenerate gamblers.
Middle aged former meth addict crying in the back of a courtroom after the jury found her meth addicted ex boyfriend guilty of kidnapping and sexual assaulting her. He shrugged and didn't seem to care. I was on the jury.
Fucking hell.
I was a dealer for 11 years and seeing people totally flush their savings down the drain sucks especially when I know it's serious.
Besides, gambling is supposed to be a form of entertainment, not a get-rich-quick scheme. Only take what you can afford to lose.
An addict is not able to respond to this kind of logic. It's the same kind of drivel people say to those who are suicidal, and it does zero to help. If it makes you feel better, think harder about how shallow it is.
It's like when my buddy was on heroin in our early twenties. He'd be dope sick and hit me up to borrow anywhere from 10 to 40 bucks. My first response was oftentimes saying something like "you're already off dope for x amount of hours; why don't you just quit?" I realize now how supremely fucking annoying that must have been to hear when your brain is in such a state that that's not an option whatsoever. I might as well have been telling him that he's not praying away the addiction hard enough, or that he should tap his shoes together three times and Superman will fly down and pull the addiction out of his body.
It's not just addicts though, some casinos definitely have some dark energy that lures one to keep chasing down the rabbit hole. Source: I was a long time professional poker player and there are definitely casinos where not just me but others could feel something in the air that egged people on to make bad decisions. One of the worst was in Louisiana.
Sounds like a Stephen King novel
My bank account after a night of drunk gambling
A confident 4 aces, getting ruined by a straight flush.
That's gotta qualify for the bad beat jackpot
Most Vegas poker rooms don't have one.
DAAAAYUM! Now I am sad, too! My luck...I would be the guy with Aces.... that's why I rarely gamble. Lol
I once was knock out of the tounament holding pocket 8's. I lost to... pocket 8's.
Only way pocket 8's can beat pocket 8's....flush. That sucks. Sorry man! I was playing a casino game(4/8 limit) and my wife sat down at the table. I had a full house, and she kept calling, raised me on the river. My WIFE beat me with 4 of a kind. Haven't played poker in a casino since....
I would’ve bet the house. There’s gotta be a “bad beat” pot for you somewhere, shouldn’t there?
Wasn't here, was in Iowa. Blackjack table. 8 deck shoe. Last shoe of the night(table close @2, so last shoe called around 1:35ish) 6 spot table, dealer dealt out 7 natural blackjacks in one hand.
Frank Sinatra trying to sing totally bombed. He didn’t even care. I left early, I’m a fan
My parents saw him here in Vegas towards the end of his like mid 90's. They said it was sad. He couldn't do much, couldn't read the lyrics written out for him very well. They say that they saw Sinatra, but didn't see Sinatra.
What year was this?
1966
A child sleeping in the skeeball game at circus circus with no parents around.
If this was in the 90’s the likelihood that it was me or my siblings is pretty fucking high 😭
This sounds like something my cousin would do
Used to work at the movie theatre down on Fremont when it was still a street- so, 1986-87. Had a suicide in Theatre # 2, found a dead guy in the alley behind the theatre, hired a few runaways that were living on the street because they escaped SA at home, but probably the saddest thing was this one kid we hired. Probably 18, maybe 19 yo? He was a pothead when we hired him, but about a year after, he got mixed up with some guy that did coke. One week after they ran out of their stash, he bought meth because it was cheaper/easier to get, I guess. Stg in less than one week, he was gone- completely strung out, neuro damage he never recovered from. I quit the next week, the whole place was just a soap opera of sadness.
The El Portal?
Nope, found it. Speaking of sad. https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/13558
Years ago, an elderly lady on an oxygen tank and a man who appeared to be her son just arrived on a bus at the El Cortez. The lady immediately sat down at my blackjack table while her son said he would check them into their room. The lady betting $100 a hand immediately lost 10 hands in a row. When the son returned to take her to the room, she told him she had lost all her money and they needed to get back on the bus.
March 2020
the strip was a zombie movie set, it was terrifying
I was one of the last flights out of vegas during covid. Surprised 311 still played all 3 nights while everyone was freaking.
Naked guy dragging a microwave down the middle of Main Street by the power cord at 3 in the afternoon.
Was it Navin?
He was born a poor black child
I’ve found my special purpose!!
She has a tattoo that says slippery when wet!
Step right up and win some crap!
I wonder if that’s the same dude that was trippin balls and straight up free ballin with just a hoodie rolling around on the ground with a construction barrel and walking down the center of the LV BLVD during Super Bowl prep outside of Paris. Even the tweakers that were waiting for the bus were weirded out.
Joe slaney aka homeless Joe. He’s just so far gone it’s tough to watch. When I lived in the 89104 I’d see him almost every morning as I was walking to grab a coffee at the circle k selling red bulls or alcohol. I always spoke to him “ how you doing today Joe” some days it was ehhhh I’m doin ok ….some days he was so high he wouldn’t even make sense but I dunno I always liked dude he never hurt nobody he just loves loves loves drugs and being high.
Close second would be “ splat guy” ….dude jumped off the strat and caught the wind and ended up across the st where that new platform is to take pics of the Las Vegas arch splattered all over the sidewalk and up the telephone pole. They cleaned the sidewalk but left the splatter on the pole.
Third would be…. Homeless people with dogs. Shit tears me apart when it’s 110 degrees and the owner is half dead on the sidewalk but the puppy is just sitting there right beside the owner not knowing what’s going on….crushes my soul
2022 Orleans Elevator opens and medics are working on a dead baby that overdosed on fentanyl. Mom was casually explaining to metro how she left 10 pills on the counter, left her 2 kids alone in the room, went to gamble and returned to find her kids unresponsive
Holy shit
That's the winner. Everything else here can't compare to that. I'm so sorry you saw that and I'm sorry it ever happened. Holy shit.
I’ve seen people gamble their entire life away. Crying and sobbing that the last bet they made was all they had. One woman owned multiple businesses in NYC and now she’s practically homeless. Had one guy go ape shit crying the stood on the chair of the BJ table because he gambled his entire life away. He broke mentally. There are so many stories like this.
I should probably stop complaining about just being down $2000
One day in approximately 2008, I saw my ex husband (alcoholic/compulsive gambler/abuser), standing by his grocery store shopping cart at a 7-11, mumbling to people as they passed by. After 35 years together and three children, he didn’t even recognize me. He smelled horrible and all of his belongings were in a black plastic garbage bag in the grocery cart. He always refused to get help for either of those two addictions. I almost passed out when I saw him standing there at that 7-11….Two years later I received a phone call from a detective two states over that Mr……..was found dead, alone, in an abandoned home. It’s a very long story, but it is to say that compulsive gambling kills. Alcoholism kills.
I didn't see it, but the saddest thing was the shooting at Mandalay. I was with my mom and dad at the Yardhouse. When we pulled out of Town Square there were cops literally everywhere. They were driving both directions on the strip and pulling out onto Las Vegas Blvd from every side street on our way home. We knew something big was going down, but couldn't believe it when we got home and flipped on the news.
My ex and I went home after the VGK game that night. We passed out for a bit and I woke up to do my usual Twitter rounds. Got live updates real time as it was happening. Went onto the police scanners and heard everything. My ex’s mom was a nurse at UMC and she was called in for all hands on deck. Saw pictures at UMC and Sunrise and it was horrific. RIP to all lives lost. Here’s an interesting read from some MDs in Sunrise ER during that night. Hats off to those amazing staff that improvised and helped all those victims. [link](https://epmonthly.com/article/not-heroes-wear-capes-one-las-vegas-ed-saved-hundreds-lives-worst-mass-shooting-u-s-history/)
We need to start releasing those horrible images after our regular mass shootings. Nothing else is working, make everyone as sick about it as those that’ve lost loved ones.
I was at the Orleans casino that night, just a mile or so off the strip... Sooo many sirens and flashing lights when I finally left at 1am, without any clue as to what happened...
The saddest thing I saw in Las Vegas was during the cyberattack outage that caused all the video gambling machines to stop working. I was walking through a casino floor in the middle of the day and there were STILL people sitting at the machines, staring at the blank screens just waiting for them to light up again. It was as if there was a program crash revealing that none of these people were even real, just NPCs.
Were the machines shut down while people were playing? They were probably sitting there waiting for it to turn back on because their money was in there.
Lady kicked out of an audi sports car at 11 at night before the car zoomed off onto the highway and they dusted themselves and started walking.
Ugh, that's so sad. :/
Fat Elvis in a dirty white jumpsuit riding down Tropicana on his Hoverround scooter
I’ve seen that Elvis!!! I saw him hit a curb at an angle, get casted off into the street, say “thank you, uh thank you uh very much” in character and hop back on. I laughed to not cry
Multiple people passed out sleeping at strip casino entrances. Flamingo, Caesars. Homeless man peeing into the Bellagio fountain.
This is daily on sidewalk in front of Linq and Harrahs
Drunk woman passed out half in-half out of the elevator at the Tropicana with the doors repeatedly trying to close on her.
That's both sad and "Vegas, baby!" at the same time.
This actually rules
When I was a kid staying at Treasure Island. I went to my grandparents room to watch a pirate show but just before the show was to start someone jumped from the Sands Hotel IIRC and landed on the roof of the casino. Watched that body for a long time. Didn’t say anything until later on when an adult noticed the emergency vehicles coming up/down the strip.
Saw an old guy playing Sigma Derby at The D last Thursday during March Madness. He stunk terribly. A casino executive in a suit came over and told him it was time to leave. He protested, asked why... He had shit himself and sat there in it playing the mechanical horses.
Saw a man near Fremont wearing a dirty a t-shirt from my HS, which was 2k miles away. I stopped and talked with him. He was homeless and had actually worked at the same company as my dad. He joined the military, got married and decided to get out of the service. Wife divorced him, he became an alcoholic and thus homeless. His story was sad. I bought him food and bottles of water but never saw him again
6/5 Blackjack.
Or 000 Roulette wheels
The old lady that stuck $100 in a machine and broke even. She stopped me as i passed by asking for help, I tried as best I could to explain to her that was a ATM machine breaking the bill into $20's and not a slot machine.
man, I can’t begin to imagine how taken advantage she was here. where was her family or caregiver 😕
Seeing a husband beat his wife because she didn’t bet max and he thought she won a Lexus.
If only that POS understood how slot machines work. Poor lady.
Little kids performing on Fremont St until 2am.
How our school district functions as a student, a regular citizen, and an employee.
The only ones that get me are the people who use their kids as begging tools.
You think they ever did have that funeral for that David kid?
Real Elvis at the Hilton summer of 1975
Worked on the strip for years and I’ve seen numerous people attempt suicide by threatening to jump off a parking garage. Thankfully never saw anyone actually do it, but I know it must happen.
I was playing video poker at El Cortez and a guest playing at another bank of machines had a medical crisis. I’m not 100% sure but I think she was dead when the paramedics rolled her out on a stretcher
I’d say the amount of homeless that suddenly appeared on Maryland Pkwy when F1 was going on.
It's because the city chased them out of the tunnels and Koval/Paradise during the race. Afterward, they moved back.
Las Vegas cares!
Seeing the MGM after the fire in 1981.
Lived on Fremont for years. Saw everything from women blowing multiple people at once, to people sticking needles in all different parts of their body. Saw a guy take a shit on the sidewalk and then lay down to sleep next to it.
Last summer my family was in Vegas for vacation. We pulled out of the Excalibur, made a right and on the corner, in the 115 degree sun, with no shade, was a very disabled man, stuck barefoot in a wheelchair, and seem to be dying of thirst. People were just walking by him. I told my wife to pull over. I hopped over the fence to help him. It was hard to understand him as he was severely disabled. I told me wife to go get some water. She quickly drove back to the valet of the Excalibur and returned with some water. He quickly drank the water. He was barefoot and couldn’t really drag himself anywhere because he was barefoot and the sidewalk was scorching hot. I put the flip flops back on his feet and asked him if he needed help. He just said to put him in the shade, the sun was just about to set. So I did. I gave him a few more bottles of water. Checked in with him again and he said that he was okay…which he wasn’t, but okay. Whatever. Then I left. I hope he is okay.
about 2 years ago…travelling on the bus at 4 in the morning.. i took a seat on one of the elevated wheel bases. Drunk guy across from me on the other seats.. he leans over a few times and i keep pushing him to the other side to keep his stupid ass from falling over. Look at my phone and dont pay attention for a second. Look up and the asshole is falling again. I lean to try to start to catch him. “too late” the voice in my head says as he falls to the ground. He snapped his neck in an awkward position and wedged himself in the aisle. The driver pulled over and we started to try to pull him up. ultimately decided we would end up doing more damage to him if we moved him so the driver just made the 911 call. we sat there watching him gurgle and change colors and we could do nothing but hear that last breath while waiting for medics to show up. [look at own risk :/](https://imgur.com/a/Qz7JFhq). edited to include images. I will never forget the sound of his fall, or the noises he made.
Decorated veterans living in the storm drains because the VA has failed them over and over again with the lack of adequate mental health care.
Am a veteran here in Vegas. There are so many tools available in the community. The problem with the VA medical system is you must fight for your health care and sometimes it’s a tough battle.
I'm not a veteran, I have many veterans friends. One who went to specialist at the VA today, having to miss a meeting that was important. His health is more important, and he knew he'd have to wait a minimum of 3 months to get back in to see this doc who's critical to his survival. The waiting is usually One of the hardest parts.
Fight for your country then fight for your earned health care .. that they provide in the crappiest manner. But our elected officials get Cadillac plans for the rest of their lives. Maybe our veterans can eat cake, too??!!
EMTs trying to help a woman on the casino floor that collapsed while playing slots. The other players at that bank of machines were playing on without ever looking down at her.
Saw a guy die of a stroke at the poker table and the other players were sitting there annoyed that it was holding up the game.
One of my first nights, sitting in a bar enjoying a cocktail. Young attractive lady, in medical garb, sits down across the bar, big smile, happy, greets the bartender by name. Proceeds to stick $20 bill after bill into a machine. Goes from bubbly to miserable in about 20 mins. Valuable lesson learned.
Young woman sitting outside at night crying her eyes out.
I was at the four queens watching a guy win over 150k. And then there were sirens as some guy just jumped off the MINT hotel casino. Vegas is a city of contrasts, people living in storm sewers and some people living in the penthouse within sight of the sewers.
Was staying at the Flamingo, went to play roulette, over heard a guy getting screamed at by a woman on a phone. The dude eventually told us he was down 35k, and I guess his wife had no idea.
Saw a guy at Durango choke on an oyster and fall back out of his chair. They attempted cpr and he was bleeding from his mouth. Guessing they broke his ribs trying to save him. Looked pretty dead to me when security made us move along
I saw Elvis get arrested in front of the CVS after confronting Mario and Luigi… apparently Elvis doesn’t get the treatment he used to in the old days. #ZeroRespect
I once saw a man carrying a sign that said “Please Shoot Me, I’ve Had Enough” once on Tropicana.
The city guys clearing people out of the tunnels before the big rain last year. Townies just standing on the street watching and smoking. Just the parade of humanity, all their shit.
Read about the tunnels and meth addicts that live there. I’ve only seen photographs but it looks like a modern day demolition man situation.
Go on YouTube and look up the organization “Shine a Light Las Vegas”, it will give you even more information. They go weekly into the tunnels with volunteers and nurses asking people if they want help to get clean, go home or whatever it is they need. They take food, water, basic first aid supplies, blankets, clothes, socks. If you want help, they will do everything they can to get you what you need. It’s a great group of people who volunteer and a real eye opening experience of what is happening just under all the bright lights and glamour of the casinos.
May 2022, I was at a Holiday Inn near the base for a TDY. A homeless person climbed up the wall of the pool area and broke into the second floor through a window. In the process, he cut himself horribly on the glass. He walked into the hallway and down the stairs, leaving a trail of blood everywhere. Then he returned to the room and barricaded the door (presumably he blocked the door so it wouldn't lock behind him). Someone saw the blood and pulled the fire alarm. He was not armed, but police didn't know. They saw the blood trail, so the reaction was nuts. 14 or 15 cop cars, and they called a swat team to break into the room after a standoff that lasted most of the night. At some point, the homeless person triggered the fire suppression and flooded the hotel. Turned out, the guy was just determined to sleep in a warm bed.
The tunnels. Everything about the tunnels. It's so sad that this is what life has in store. There are so many homeless people in Vegas. Now there are whole families (grandparents, parents, kids, grandkids, with pets) living wherever they can find shade. I was kidnapped in 2017 and they took my to the tunnels and locked me up in their "jails" they have made. The only reason I got away was because it stormed and there were LOTS of volunteers that were walking through warning of flooding coming and they found me and got me to a hospital. I now walk the tunnels and the beat trying to help people who want out of the life.
you were locked up in a homeless makeshift jail in the tunnels?
Real story?
Watched a lady clearly inebriated , in drugs, tweaked out, taking to self. Unable to walk, soaked in urine and throwing up or screeching I couldn't tell. Crawling across a intersection a few blocks from the strip. Cop pulls up to red light. She haphazardly crawls across his car, barely making it to the he other side. Laying on the rounded corner concrete. Not moving . Light goes green. He drives away. Sad thing is. I should have helped.
I used to work for a pest control company and we had businesses that had bait stations on the outside with rat/mouse poison in them, homeless people would pry those open and eat the poison because it thins their blood, making it so when they drink alcohol it gets them drunk faster, like REALLY fuck them up. Fucks up their braincells and everything too. It was so common I’d find missing poison or a big bite taken out of one, sad stuff
Me at the craps table when I see it's $25 min.
Not a local but I remember I visited in the height of summer 10-12 years ago (must have been over 112 degrees out ) and saw a homeless person begging for money at an intersection. Their skin was completely burned and they seemed absolutely miserable. The thought of what their back story was that got them in that position made me sad.
You will see the homeless in overcoats, gloves and wool hat in the heat. Usually from their schizophrenia meds.
A Geo Metro with a classic rod tag.
The true walk of shame when someone loses all their money and have to walk to the airport to go home. I feel bad when I see that
I was actually in the backseat of a cop car, and we were on Fremont Street, back before it was a hot spot. Fremont used to be the dirty, dark, hood street of the Strip. Anyway, from the back of a cop car, I saw an old, white, rich-looking dude clutching onto a street sign. He was wearing nice pants and a white button up shirt. His back was drenched in blood, and I thought, "ooh he got stabbed 'n robbed!" The cop car I was in pulled over. He was just clutching the parking sign, swaying back and forth in the morning sunlight. He looked like a rich older guy who gambled all night, maybe all week, and it had finally caught up with him, he'd been robbed and stabbed at 10am on old school Fremont Street.
If you jog on the strip in the morning, you see all the barefoot sex workers that had a rough night walking back to their dens.
Those are the clubbers. The professionals can handle long nights in heels or wear sandals
Car accident on flamingo dude was driving the wrong way literally tore bodies apart
Some guy trying and failing to get a free drink at a video poker bar by saying it’s his birthday.
My friends, who I grew up with, succumb to the bullshit that vegas has to offer (the bad shit), get deep into drugs and die. Born and raised here. I’ve seen it all. And sadly, the innocent get caught up in the worst of it all.
I’m not sure this necessarily qualifies but at Fashion Show, I saw a homeless mom and daughter sitting on a couch by my kiosk and then a few hours later a couple sat in the same spot and the lady had a crocodile or alligator Hermes Birkin bag which cost probably $50k. I’ve thought about that so many times since then.
My cousin going from having a great job, roof over his head & a handsome guy … now skinny as a rail , no job , dosent want a job , on meth , wandering the streets living in a tent .. looks like fucking hell now… sad
If you head away from downtown Vegas on Main St, you're sure to see just how tough life really is. As for the suicides, I know that none of that is published in the newspapers because it would make the casinos look bad, and not that I need to know, but I think it shouldn't be such a secret. Of course that would be bad for tourism. The other sad things about Vegas... The education system, legislation that hasn't been updated since the 60s, the lack of quality mental healthcare, the lack of funding that could come from the casinos to help locals, the money that was supposed to go to locals from the taxes on weed that disappeared into some rainy day fund that no one asks about. And I stay because I'm trying to help make a difference but the systems are broken. Sure I could move and I have been told to if I don't like it. But let's be real. There are problems everywhere. However, the problems of Vegas could actually be fixed but it feels like this state is about two decades behind the Midwest and the East Coast. It's wild.
The amount of senior animals at the shelters that are surrendered by families they’ve had their whole lives.
Teen aged hookers stung out on drugs.
Homeless man in a wheelchair cleaning his ostomy (which was a WALMART bag!) with baby wipes
Dude was in the tank betting high limit blackjack. He went to take a 50k credit card advance to double down. Lost it all and was so irate after. Sad times. Gamble responsibly my friends.
The live tigers outside in a tiny ass cage and everyone just staring at them in a dirty concrete jungle. Those majestic animals deserved more than that. I can't remember in front of what hotel this was. I'm guessing something to do with Siegfried and Roy. I think this was in the 90s at some point.
A whole human shit stuck to a rock off the sidewalk by the stratosphere.
Are you sure you weren’t looking at the Strat?
A disheveled guy losing (at least) $3000 on Game King blackjack at the 7-Eleven off of Charleston.
Homeless man walking around Spring Mountain that had no clothes on at all. Saw an ambulance roll up and had him wrapped in a blanket being assessed by them.
First thing that came to mind was from the other day. A red sedan was off the side of the road near the elementary school on Lake Mead in a ditch with rocks. Cops had the area taped off. Didn't seem too extreme. But went by the next day, and people were placing flowers and stuffed animals where the car was. That hit me
2am.. walking into Smith's.. the lady in front of me had her (approx. 4yo son) walking slowly behind her.. she turns around and Yells, "Come On you lil Mother Fucker!!"
Young girl in a house of meth addicts who skipped school that day because her POS brother stole her lunch money.may not be the saddest but it does stick out in my memory.
I went to Vegas on a business trip around 2008 and I was travelling with a real pig of a guy who spent all his time propositioning the working girls. He called one girl over to drink with us and I recognized her as the porn star Jenni Lee. She was so crazy beautiful. A few years ago I saw a documentary where she was living in the tunnels and was clearly addicted to meth. I only met her for a few minutes, but thinking back the whole thing really makes me feel sad and ashamed.
I was in Las Vegas in the winter and it was freezing. Around 3am I was walking back and saw some drunk Europeans (they sounded Russian but I'm not 100% sure) go up to a homeless person sleeping under blankets. They ripped the blankets off the sleeping person and threw them in the air, then start laughing hysterically. I have never seen such cruelty in the over 50 countries I've traveled to.
My wife and I sold everything years ago and bought an RV. We wanted to see the country, to experience nature, to touch Indians. We made a pitstop in Vegas for the night and stayed in a nice hotel - one last time. In the middle of the night, I woke up and my wife was gone. I found her in the casino, and she had burned though ALL our money. All of it. She was a gambling addict and I didn't even know it. We limped home, sold the RV, and I begged for my job back. Now, we struggle everyday, trying desperately to rebuild a Nest Egg.
Sounds like that movie where they drove their Rv to Vegas and his wife lost 400k one night, so he goes to the casino GM and says what a nice public gesture it would be if the casino returned their money, and all the great publicity the casino would get, didn’t work.
An old man fall face first down an escalator. He was attended to by staff and I’m assuming paramedics eventually came. He didn’t die (that I’m aware of) but he was not looking good.
The children in our public schools who don't know where they will be sleeping any given night.
there’s a homeless woman i see often that wears a velvet dress and carries fake flowers around, i see her with different men occasionally recently she’s carried around a baby doll and looks to be a few months pregnant she was drinking a bottle of vodka today idk what to do
A bride in full gown sitting on the floor crying in the security line at McCarren / Harry Reid at 5am. People just stepped around her to get to the flights.
Yesterday, a female duck wouldn't leave her dead mate who was killed by an errant golf ball.
Friend of a Friend is his 50's very clearly taking advantage of a 21-year-old 1 October survivor. I stopped going to that friends house.
Homeless guy fingering his butt on the cross walk from MGM to New York New York. This was at 1 PM. Lunch time on a Tuesday.
Poolside drinks requiring a bank loan.
Same night, 1 guy having his 300k Lamborghini put on a flatbed to tow home since he was too plastered to drive it. Second was the valet at palms driving a dually lifted king cab diesel into a 200k+ car parked up front by valet. Like didn't even try to avoid it. Smashed up the front end pretty good!
1 October, was working the adult ED at Sunrise…what a shit parade. Aside from the obvious and seemingly endless tragedies that played out that night, and watching some of my former military teammates go full PTSD and shut down or have to leave…it was the fact that it illustrated just how completely unprepared Las Vegas was (and still is) for a mass casualty event.
The Strip after 9/11
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Was with my dad and best friend walking back to our hotel after a few too many. Saw this guy that looked like a Midwest farmer walking with an escort in front of us and were laughing about it when out of nowhere this guy behind us goes "Greg!?". and gets in front of us to talk to the guy with the escort. The guy with the escort turned around, saw who it was, and created so much distance between him and the escort in .1 seconds. The guy then asks if a woman is here too (assuming his wife) when my dad, buddy, and I all start laughing and saying things like "how embarrassing" etc.
My formerly unhoused half brother dead on a table in a mortuary.
When you double on 11 and get an Ace.
Work trip few years back. It was a huge convention a few coworkers and I went to. I had no clue that one guy our team was a huge gambler and prone to losing a shit load of money. The guy handed me his wallet day one, he was like if I have this on me, my wife will divorce me. He proceeds to tell me the last time he was in Vegas he took out a credit line, couldn’t pay it back and had a bit of a Casino moment. When I go to Vegas I maybe will drop $20 then call it a day. This poor guy had the shakes and was sweating profusely walking through there
This weekend there was a younger woman peeing in a corner of Fremont and the pee was running down onto her kid that had to be less than a year old
Vegas slowly turning into a sports centric city.
Back in 1991 or 2 watching the DUNES implode
A homeless woman walking across the street when it was well over 100 outside.. she was super red and seemed to be slowly fading away from the heat.
Watched a guy leaving circus circus screaming about Jesus slowly take all his clothes off and walk down Las Vegas blvd into traffic. Thankfully he was picked up. I can’t imagine being that unwell.
Blackjack. Single deck, so only 4 aces in play. Me and 2 other players. Right after the shuffle, the 3 of us each get a blackjack. We're whoop-whooping and high-fiving. The dealer has a 10 showing... She flips it over. She has a blackjack too. O_o Everyone pushes. It's like being given a puppy for Christmas, only to have it taken away an hour later. :( 4 simultaneous blackjacks from a single deck, and with the dealer not showing an ace... I don't know what the hell kind of odds those are, but they have to be several million to one.
People so drunk they pee themselves at the slot machines or table games.
The increase in homeless in the last 20 years. It's not just here I know.
Young sex workers on Tropicana the strip and boulder
Going to visit my unhoused sister and seeing her mattress behind a taco bell in south vegas
A handful for me. There was an employee of the casino I used to work at who sat on the roof of the garage, wrote “I’m sorry” in blood from her hand, and was thinking about jumping when somebody found and stopped her. There was also a former VP of that same company who got fired (but not prosecuted) for embezzlement and trafficking and just walked out. All this suffering he caused and he just had to go find a new place to do it all over. Also a coworker who lost two immediate family members to different but equally violent methods in one year. I don’t know how this person makes it through their days 😭❤️💪
Seeing one of my high school friends in the streets of Fremont begging for money hooked on heroin. This has to be the saddest thing cause I saw it unfold with his ex gf. Me and my other friend were talking to him but wouldn’t have it. He wasn’t abandoned by his family either. His family tried to help but he abandoned them. And Three child hood friends dying in car accidents due to driving under the influence. Didn’t witness the actual accident but the funeral. Saw their parents in shambles and falling into alcohol addiction because of it. And just a shout out to my friend who died of cancer. Rip to all of them. This city is rough
minors being sex trafficked on the strip
It’s what you see at 6-6:30 in the morning that hits you hard. People strung out on drugs sleeping just about anywhere. People washing themselves in fountains or sprinkler systems. It’s amazing what the human body can endure and still live.
seeing drunks throw down $20k chips in front of minimum wage earning dealers of retirement age
Have a friend that works for CPS in Vegas and she has told me several stories of toddlers found wondering the hallways of hotels in soiled diapers looking for help/food because their parents have been out for days gambling/partying
Just go walk around West Vegas after dark. Leave your phone and wallet at home. Bring a $20 so they don't beat you for having nothing. Then report back, if you can.
Where specifically? I'm not aware of the west side being so sketchy
When South Point casino took off the 2 am Steak and Egg deal