[gman5431]

Originally Posted by airics

so if its legal, how come they are not in front of the bellagio? i can't stand these guys.. and why are they on the strip and not downtown?

My guesses would be... the Bellagio "convinced" them not to be in front of their establishment and the traffic on the strip is greater and more touristy.

G Man

[desertsun41]

Originally Posted by airics

so if its legal, how come they are not in front of the bellagio? i can't stand these guys.. and why are they on the strip and not downtown?

They are downtown. They just go about it different. Because there is no walking traffic they dont hand out brochures. Instead they stick business cards into every hotel/motel door. They stick a stack of business cards on bullitan boards in lobbies, store fronts and bars.

When I first arrived in Vegas, I like so many before and after me ended up staying at a Budget Suites. Every morning when I opened my room door a couple dozen cards fell to the balcony. I always wondered why I never heard anyone sticking them in the door. Even more so I was pizzed that I had to bend down and pick them up.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by gman5431

My guesses would be... the Bellagio "convinced" them not to be in front of their establishment and the traffic on the strip is greater and more touristy.

G Man

I think it's because the sidewalk in front of the Bellagio is owned by the hotel and they can't go onto private property. Maybe Clark County should make all sidewalks property of the hotel it's in front of and that would keep them out.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by gman5431

Ahhh, see for some reason i was told that it was legal....

G Man

Prostitution is not legal. "Dancing" for someone is. After they get to your room individual girls might offer other services which are illegal and not on the menu.

[dynimagelv]

and there is just no lawmaking that will control a dancers ability to "fall in love" for a short period of time

[Buzz123]

About ten or twelve years ago, I was on a jury in a murder trial against a woman accused of being in on the murder of her ex-husband. You couldn't make up the story we heard in court. The trial which was supposed to take three days went on for three weeks. This is the SHORT version: A guy had shot his own brother. It was obviously an accident, and probably the brother's fault, but he had gotten out of jail by telling them his dead brother, and the dead brother's girlfriend, had killed her ex-husband who she was in a child custody fight with. The ex-husband was associated with Tony Spilotro and was being questioned by the FBI. He was from Columbia, and involved in all sorts of bad stuff including drugs. The ex-husband was Spilotro's exclusive waiter at the restaurant where the guy was blown away by a shotgun blast in the parking lot. You may remember that Spilotro's boys were known as the hole-in-the-wall gang, because they would knock a hole in the side of a house with sledge hammers, and rob the place while the people were out having dinner at certain restaurants. Employees at those restaurants would call the gang to let them know when a rich person was there having dinner. The valets also would make duplicate copies of people's house keys to give to the hole-in-the-wall gang. Anyway, all kinds of people could have wanted this guy dead. The prosecution brought in all sorts of strange people to testify, but there was maybe only one you could believe. One guy claimed to have been an Army Colonel in Vietnam. Only problem with that was he wouldn't have been born yet. That was the type of people testifying against this woman. In her defense they brought in a prisoner who claimed to have witnessed the murder, but because he was wanted didn't tell anyone right away. He later told someone who reported him, so he told the cops that he saw two people approach the murdered guy's car; one knocked on the passenger side window, and when the guy looked around, the other guy walked up to the drivers window and shot him in the face with a 12 gauge. Looked like a professional hit. The jailbird said that neither of the killers was a woman. Anyway, it was so weird, you had to be there. It would make a great TV movie, or at least an episode of CSI. Most of the jury that wanted to convict her just wanted blood, and would be willing to send her to jail just because she wasn't a nice girl. But the jury was hung because the state didn't convince everyone beyond a reasonable doubt she was guilty. I heard there was a second trial with a hung jury also. I don't know what happened to her after that, but it was like something you'd only see on TV.

[dynimagelv]

OJ convicted of a keystone cops caper......but ya gotta take what you can get

[Justbeck6901]

A couple years back I was at the ER at nasty Lake Mead hospital and me and my husband were outside smoking a cigg and this car rolled up and this guy got out yelling help my people(people=explicit word) and was banging on his trunk and yelling running around his car and someone got out of the back with so much blood all over and actually collapsed and there was another person in the back that I unfortunately think was dead in the back laying there. ER people came running out to help and literally within 2-3 minutes there was a cop that rolled up behind his car that was parked in front and taped the whole area off with crime tape. I think it was a gang thing, some of their windows were busted/shot out. Scariest crap I ever seen and those images are stuck in my head, sickening I never wanted to see those images, just an innocent bystander i guess.

[airics]

Originally Posted by desertsun41

I remember another crazy thing. It was around the summer of 1999. I was driving south on 95. There was no scag bowl then. It was just a small overhead 15 bridge and 4 little lanes squeezed under it with no shoulders and narrow exit ramps.

There was no ferocious traffic like there is now but up ahead everyone was hitting the breaks and swirving to the right and left. When I got to it there was a horse trailer with 2 horses in it. It was just sitting in the middle of 95 with no car attached to it. It was facing dead on southbound. As I drove further south there was no vehicles sitting on the side of the road who might have lost it.

Now how do you lose a 2000 pound trailer with 2 Horses who probably weigh another 3000 pounds total?

almost the same thing happened to me a few weeks ago, i was driving on 95 north at night and there in the center lane was a motorcycle, crotchrocket, black and very hard to see.. thank god my wife saw it or else i would have nailed it.. farther up was a pickup truck on the side of the road with 2 idiots wondering what to do.. they obviously didnt tie the bike down... i wonder if anyone hit that bike... i rarely complain about this city, but vegas has the stupidest drivers i have ever seen...

[desertsun41]

Originally Posted by airics

almost the same thing happened to me a few weeks ago, i was driving on 95 north at night and there in the center lane was a motorcycle, crotchrocket, black and very hard to see.. thank god my wife saw it or else i would have nailed it.. farther up was a pickup truck on the side of the road with 2 idiots wondering what to do.. they obviously didnt tie the bike down... i wonder if anyone hit that bike... i rarely complain about this city, but vegas has the stupidest drivers i have ever seen...

Do you remember about 7 months ago when a big aluminum ladder fell off a truck and a motorcyclist ran over it and he was killed? Turns out he was a local expert trainer in training new bikers how to deal with every situation to save their life.

95 was closed for 8 hours that day. That was sad.