User profile: vegasm

If an item advertised is done so clearly saying 'replica' in the description, one should not have a reasonable expectation of receiving the genuine article.

The problem arises when an item is resold to an unsuspecting 3rd party as an original, and the third party may be inexperienced in detecting real from fake.

I have a real Rolex, and it feels like a real Rolex - it's solid, heavy and expensive as heck to have 'tuned up'...just like my Ferrari (another company sue happy over 'replica' kits - see Ferrari vs. Mcburnie, the maker of the kit used to convert a Corvette into the black Ferrari Daytona used in Miami Vice).

You can no more confuse a cheap 'Rolex' with a real one than a Fiero kitcar with the genuine article!

With my credit unions current 15 year rates, I can get a $70,000 condo for about $490.00 a month before tax/insurance.

I pay $630 for a ghetto apartment.

Better believe I'm leaving the apartment market when lease expires!!

An unarmed, untrained powerless $8.00 an hour Security Guard does not deter violent crime, and neither does electronic surveillance.

Based on the amount of robberies, shootings and killings lately, I would say the same holds true for casino security.

In any event, this is most likely a losing proposition for the complainant.

True, he didn't 'have to work there', but what reasonable expectation did he have that working in a furniture store was a death penalty choice?

Or the murdered 7-11 clerk, the firefighter killed in a collapsing building, the Taxi driver shot to death and robbed, the jogger raped?

Jesus didn't have to preach...all could have avoided murder or violent death.

None of these people 'had' to be where they were, or doing what they were doing, when death found them.

Las Vegas exists almost entirely upon an economy where discretionary, disposable cash can be squandered on alcohol, overpriced entertainment and gambling.

When discretionary cash dries up and the tourists no longer come, what do you have left to offer?

Las Vegas has never attempted to attract non-gaming industries, but rather assumed the Golden Goose would live and produce forever.

A simple recovery is not going to help; we need a recovery so strong American and foreign tourists once again feel safe spending cash on extravagant vacations.

I can tell you from my experience working casino security on the Strip: the girls could save themselves about 70% of their troubles with LE if they just did their 'job' and let it go at that.

Unfortunately, hookers choose to rob ('trick roll') their clients, bring their pimps to the floor, snatch cash tickets from slot machines and approach men who obviously are in a poor position to be solicited (with wives, drunk etc.). Add pick-pocketing and purse snatching to the picture and you have the real, 'non-Hollywood' look at casino prostitution.

These activities on the part of casino hookers create an environment where even 'hobbyists' file complaints with Security over the criminal actions the girls engage in. There is a definite impact to a casino's reputation if the hooker situation is allowed to go unchecked.

This one makes far more sense than strip club and massage parlor stings, where everyone is a voluntary participant, knowing full well what they are getting into up front.

I do believe the powers that be in Vegas are grasping at straws in an effort to save the un-savable: Las Vegas. For reasons I don't fully understand, Vegas politicians seem to think eliminating the 'Sin' from 'Sin City' will bring the tourists back.

Unfortunately, just the opposite is true.