Comments by "roachtoasties" (@roachtoasties) on "8 News Now — Las Vegas" channel.

  1. It's not like bed bugs were discovered in "room 1002" and we took care of it. Hotels say that, but the bugs are everywhere. Bed bugs know how to crawl between rooms without a room key. I've been reminded to keep my luggage away, and not on top of, the bed while going to a hotel. Bed bugs might crawl inside. You end up bringing home souvenirs you don't want.
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  2. That lady at the end said she couldn't check-in and couldn't check-out. That makes sense. How can you check-out if you didn't check-in? Anyway, if much of the casinos were down, there's a positive spin: The outage saved lots of guests from losing even more money.
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  3. Do tourists really travel all the way to Las Vegas to go to places like these? And really, who wants to hang around the neighborhood just north and behind The Strat?
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  4. Having a huge baseball stadium right on the strip I think makes no sense, but what am I to know. There's plenty of open land elsewhere to build it.
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  5. California resident here. It's just too expensive. Las Vegas used to be a bargain, but not any more. For what rooms and everything else costs now, I might as well take a trip to Europe. If I want to gamble, there are plenty of casinos on the outskirts of Los Angeles, with no need to drive 300 miles to Vegas.
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  6. That's a back-up? In L.A., that's called free-flow.
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  7. Does the president of the Athletics expect them to earn no more pennants? He mentioned five pennants that represent parts of the roof (0:55). So it's five and done. No more championships? As far as it looking like something that never has been done before, the roof does look like what half the Bradley International Terminal at LAX does, although not a stadium. Anyway, I feel a stadium on the strip is so out of place for many reasons. They should have located it further south by a few miles. No unbearable congestion to the strip every time there is an event, that even now is unbearable.
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  8. 2 1/2 months construction and then there's deconstruction, every year. Is that worth it? This is a reason I don't visit the strip, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
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  9. How do you separate the purchase of the land from the hotel it sits atop? If you want to do something else with the land and keep the hotel, what are you going to do. Pick up the entire resort and move it?
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  10. It's dry as a bone out there, and everywhere else. Where is the water going to come from?
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  11. Is it some sort of law in Nevada that everyone must go to work in their own car? Anyway, we live in a society that doesn't support public transportation, even though for the long term, it's the only thing that's sustainable.
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  12. I didn't see anything mentioned about renovating all the dreadful rooms. Anyway, if you're on a budget and can keep your eyes closed, go ahead and stay.
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  13. What are they paying for? Guests are saving money on their stay if they can't gamble. If they truly want to lose money just walk to another casino. If they can't do that, and still want to lose money, just throw their money out the hotel room window. At least then, if someone needy finds it, it's gone to a good cause. MGM's website is still down. I haven't been crying for them. They have loads of money. I never thought guests would be concerned if their room phone doesn't work. Everyone has a cellphone. Place your room service order using that. With I.P. phones now, if the network is down, the phones go down too. It's not the 1970's anymore.
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  14. I have more of a chance of winning the Powerball jackpot, twice, than this being completed in 2028. Maybe closer to 2038.
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  15. Using the family car with its license plate viewable to all. Real smart.
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  16. I live in California. My home is paid in full and my commute to work is only two miles, with a good income. Much cheaper here, at least for me. No need to "upgrade my lifestyle," with a four-hour commute each way, while living in 110 degree heat during the summer. I don't know, but whatever smaller mortgage payment you might have looks to be more than offset by wearing out a car every year, not to mention the cost of all that driving with increased odds of getting into an accident. There are other stresses living and working in Las Vegas, with much of the population very transient. The whole west is running out of water, and certainly Las Vegas isn't creating more water for every new home built. While it's probably a smaller number, there are always people moving the other way. Without saying how many moved from Nevada to California, this TV news report is incomplete. My guess is the 22,000 figure is half that, once people moving the other way is computed.
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  17. I agree. It's not like bed bugs were discovered in "room 1002" and we took care of it. Hotels say that, but the bugs are everywhere. Bed bugs know how to crawl between rooms without a room key.
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  18. They're certainly aren't in a rush to improve the dump. What have they done in the last five years? I remember in the 90's the big line to the buffet. Inexpensive and good. Buffets like that have vanished all over Las Vegas. None are inexpensive.
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  19. And price it a $9.95.
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  20. The guy looks like he has lost his mind. Caesars Palace should release pictures of the room. I would like to see what $50K of damages looks like. He must have gone full-blown bonkers on drugs and trashed the place.
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  21. What good will speed bumps do? The driver was drunk. If he didn't see the wall, do you really think he'll see speed bumps?
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  22. I forgot about $90 buffets. If it's just to feed yourself, that's bad enough. Multiply that for a whole family, it's insane. Save your money and take the kids to Jack-in-the-Box.
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  23. It's worse than L.A. At least L.A. has put an effort to fund and build public transit (bus, train, light rail, etc.).
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  24. That 134 degree reading has been in dispute for many reasons. If it does reach 135 using the National Weather Service's equipment, then we have an official world record. Also, in Baker, they'll need to add some height to that World's Largest Thermometer. The Death Valley visitors center is popular with foreign visitors this time of year. They want to send to their friends back home a picture of themselves. Whatever makes them happy, but it's not for me.
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  25. I don't think I'll live long enough to take the train, even if construction started tomorrow. Building anything through an empty desert takes a long time. Also, any mass transit built in the U.S. takes forever.
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  26.  @ReynaldoAbasr  I'm watching the big game on a black and white set. There's no need for me to spend money on one of those fancy-pants color models. ;)
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  27. Rumors. If you have facts, you should easily be able to point us to a major news site with the info.
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  28. Who's next?
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  29. The resorts didn't lock customers inside. If they want to gamble, just go next door or across the street. Same games. Their website is still down. Since they can't disconnect the website to the internet and have it running at the same time, I see why it's down. They'll need to be double/triple/super-duper sure it's clean from the hacks before turning it back on.
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  30. I don't get the reporter's point. How would the bridge shorten the walk, unless it's a moving sidewalk, and preferably covered, for when it's 110 outside? A bridge would only make the walk more bearable, when compared to walking the narrow sidewalk along the street.
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  31. Easy-peasy. A meteor that fell somewhere in the southwestern US: true. Giant space aliens roaming in backyards in Las Vegas: nonsense. What really gets me is everyone now has a high quality camera on their smartphones these days, but not one good image or video of space aliens walking around a neighborhood in Las Vegas (or anywhere else). Why not? If it's a picture of someone twerking, or someone reporting what one of the Kardashians are doing, useless crapola like that is wall-to-wall on YouTube, but still no space aliens.
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  32. A website is down. This is news? It really must be a slow news day.
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  33.  @sexygeek8996  True. I often take the subway to downtown L.A. It's not like I don't have a car or can't afford things, it's just much easier, no chance of getting in a car wreck on the freeway, and no parking issues. Homeless might be on the train, but what can you do.
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  34. This whole report is speculation on who started it.
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  35. Corporate mumbo-jumbo. The reason they closed is there's no business. If there was, they would be open.
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  36. Geez. Does this club expect what everyone saw on these videos to disappear from their brains if he deleted them? Anyway, the cat is out of the bag. There are countless videos on YouTube, plus that popular TV series, that reveals every magic secret you care to know about. If a magician is going to succeed these days, they need to increase their entertainment skills, as just performing tricks isn't going to cut it anymore.
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  37. 444 is considered unlucky in China and Japan. I wonder why the Japan company chose that number to close.
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  38. How is it a greener option with one passenger on the bus?
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  39.  @woah455  I purchased my home in the 90's. My income is good, but I don't post it. The person in this news report is older than me.
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  40. They all can't be going to the game. Are they coming to Las Vegas just so they can watch it in a casino sportsbook or bar? Why bother. If your TV works at home, you can watch the game.
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  41. Probably the driver wasn't paying attention. My guess is she was futzing with her favorite social media app on her cell phone and didn't notice the slower truck in front.
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  42. I don't see how this can completed in anything close to 3 1/2 years.
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  43. It looks like the victim survived the car crash but was then burned alive by the fire. I doubt the dog initially survived, because people are seat belted better. Years ago I was hit by drunk driver in my car. That knocked me out, and I wasn't hit at anything close to 156 mph. I remember waking up my car, seeing what I thought was smoke. I was thinking I survived this, but the fire is going to do me in. I couldn't get the front doors open, but managed to get out through the rear-window, that was blown out from the crash. I got out, but soon couldn't stand up. What I thought was smoke was from the air bags deploying. It took me months to heal.
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  44. I have a collection of old casino chips, slot club cards, and even those $1 slot machine coins, before the machines no longer took coins. They may be worth something, but it won't make me rich.
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  45. It's the same everywhere, but probably worse in Las Vegas. Since all the resorts or closed, there's little, or no, reason for tourists to come here.
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