Massacre in Las Vegas

Quote: Wizard

I could spend hours discussing the answer to that question. For me it is a deep emptiness. Things that make other people happy do little for me, especially in the dark times. For some it gets so bad there is no reason to get out of bed as there is no joy to look forward to in the day.

A serious question. Did you like being a kid as a child? Or did you more gravitate to the adults and have people remark that you had an unusual level of maturity and behaved more as an adult? And did you have an unusually low level of enjoyment at things kids got excited for?

Example: Even as a kid, I had a low level of excitement for Disney World. Even today, other than EPCOT, you would have to drag me there. I was, at age 12 or so, more interested in how the football lines worked. I would not call my childhood good or bad as much as "unfulfilling."

Is this sort of it?

Quote: Evenbob

I always
tell people that if they feel down, just
get a little dog, it works wonders.

I have a dog and think it helps. However, not everybody likes pets. My mother never got any pleasure in them. She views them as another thing to bother her.

Quote: AZDuffman

I would not call my childhood good or bad as much as "unfulfilling."

As a kid, I read all the time. First
comic books, then about the age
of 10, real books. I was always
reading in school when I should
have been paying attention. I
didn't have time for my childhood
to be unfulfilling.

Quote: AZDuffman

A serious question. Did you like being a kid as a child? Or did you more gravitate to the adults and have people remark that you had an unusual level of maturity and behaved more as an adult? And did you have an unusually low level of enjoyment at things kids got excited for?

I did not like being a kid. If I had to relive an era of my life, it wouldn't be that one. Still, I did things kids did. I liked gambling, of course. I was also into collecting various things. Plus watched a lot of TV. That may explain why I know so much trivia about television from about 1975 to 1985. Never liked playing any sport that involved a ball, except was decent at tennis.

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Example: Even as a kid, I had a low level of excitement for Disney World. Even today, other than EPCOT, you would have to drag me there. I was, at age 12 or so, more interested in how the football lines worked. I would not call my childhood good or bad as much as "unfulfilling."

We lived about 15 miles from Disneyland and I must admit that I liked it. I think because it made for a good escape from the real world. However, none of my kids like it. Once we took them there and after two hours they were asking to go back to the hotel to play their electronic games.

Quote: Wizard

I did not like being a kid. If I had to relive an era of my life, it wouldn't be that one. Still, I did things kids did. I liked gambling, of course. I was also into collecting various things. Plus watched a lot of TV. That may explain why I know so much trivia about television from about 1975 to 1985. Never liked playing any sport that involved a ball, except was decent at tennis.

Yeah, I think we got the same thing. I learned I had it from someone on your own site of all places. It made sense when it was explained. Today they would dope me up.

Quote:

We lived about 15 miles from Disneyland and I must admit that I liked it. I think because it made for a good escape from the real world. However, none of my kids like it. Once we took them there and after two hours they were asking to go back to the hotel to play their electronic games.

I think that is common with kids today. Those games are addicting, and in ways damaging.

Quote: Fleastiff

The guard was shot in the leg and transmitted the room number. It appears that this early awareness of the location and what the shooter must have thought was a swat team about to make entry was a sufficient distraction that ended the carnage.

Not everyone agrees on the timeline:

Quote: Wall Street Journal

MGM Resorts International Inc., the owner of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, is officially disputing the police account of when a casino security guard was shot by gunman Stephen Paddock.

The wounding of security guard Jesus Campos has emerged as a pivotal event in the timeline of how police responded to the Oct. 1 mass shooting in which Paddock killed 58 people and injured nearly 500 more.

I'm surprised there's a disagreement on the timeline. Aren't there surveillance cameras everywhere in Mandalay Bay? Surely the hotel hallways and elevator boarding areas are well-monitored by cameras.

I stand corrected. According to the LA Times, Mandalay Bay does not have cameras in the hotel hallways.

Incidentally, here's a tidbit I was unaware of:

Quote: Los Angeles Times

One of the public’s few windows into Paddock’s history in casinos comes from a slip-and-fall lawsuit that Paddock filed against the Cosmopolitan Hotel in 2012. And yes, there was video of Paddock’s fall.

Paddock lost the lawsuit in arbitration largely because the footage showed other customers passing the area without any problems. The house, and its surveillance system, won.

I do not believe:
Hotel corridors are not under video surveillance.
IF this is true its the first such situation I've ever heard of in Vegas.

It seems the radio traffic for the security guard's radio is recorded differently than the radio traffic from the engineer's "go up and assist on 32" to 'bullets sprayed in hallway. Radio time stamp info differs.

Time codes on video tape are not always valid. Different computer clocks are used.

Quote: Fleastiff

I do not believe:
Hotel corridors are not under video surveillance.
IF this is true its the first such situation I've ever heard of in Vegas.

It seems the radio traffic for the security guard's radio is recorded differently than the radio traffic from the engineer's "go up and assist on 32" to 'bullets sprayed in hallway. Radio time stamp info differs.

Time codes on video tape are not always valid. Different computer clocks are used.

New video recorders are usually tied to one of the time sites to keep their on board time accurate. Any of the time sites would be within a second of each other. In a large system such as a casino the recorders likely all get their time stamp from the computer running the overall control system so they would all have the same time stamp.

How many think that Slip and Fall action was just an attempt to shakedown the casino for a nuisance settlement? Character revealing?