It looks pretty bad. Two dead and at least 24 wounded.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/us/las...ter/index.html
It looks pretty bad. Two dead and at least 24 wounded.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/us/las...ter/index.html
I was driving about 1030pm south on the 15, alongside the strip, and police-type cars were flying down the freeway. These weren't regular police cars like metro, highway patrol, etc., but they were big trucks, suburbans, sedans, etc. which appeared to be the "more important law enforcement" types, with their lights going but appeared to be unmarked. It looked like they were getting off on Tropicana or Russel perhaps. I figured sh** was going down, but I didn't expect it to be something this gnarly, damn. It looked like traffic completely stopped on 15 going northbound, around Russel or Tropicana.
Word of mouth says there have been unconfirmed reports of shootings in other casinos on the strip, including Caesars, Aria, Linq, Luxor, Bellagio, maybe Flamingo, as well as a possible car bomb at Luxor.
My friend who lives near a hospital said the hospital is busy as all hell.
"Everyone wants to be rich, but nobody wants to work for it." -Ryan Howard [The Office]
"I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse
The shooter was a real estate developer with a net 7 figure net worth.
In the 6 days prior to the murders, he had filed six (6) C.T.R.'s at least
two (2) of which were for 20K and 30K. Just before the killing spree he
wired $100,000 to his girlfriend. He was a "Seven Star Player" at CET
properties.
Related to the thread, sorta kind of, but I thought it interesting.
For all intents and purposes, I am retired. I still do work, almost always less than a day a week. I also have some rental Property, though self supporting, has some mortgage debt (my only debt) associated with it. My son looks after it for me. I want to dump it in the next couple of years at a time when the market is good, coupled with some tax deferral strategies etc etc.
I like the thought of conservative stocks and holdings, market growth dividends and interest, highly liquid, without the need of heavy intervention. I am one lazy SOB, willing to pay for competent professional management to keep me lazy. I've not yet started to draw on retirement funds, but it's coming in the not to distant future.
I write this while relaxing at my neighbourhood French bakery cafe, having just got up from a nap, lunch earlier with the wife, and of course, my excercise class this morning. Business wise, I had 2- 2 minute phone calls today, and a couple of emails. Think I got another email while writing this post.
The point is - when I didn't have it, I didn't pretend to have it. As I started getting it, I lived a fairly simple life - didn't play the big shot. Health issues really slowed me down, but prior life philosophies allowed me to slow down with dignity. I could never put out, like I used to from a business perspective, nor do I want to.
I recognize that I've been luckier than most, I did go through living the cheque to cheque routine making sure everything got paid - so long ago. My advice to all - resist immediate gratification, don't play the big shot, and remember that accumulation, for most is a gradual thing. I've lived in the same modest house for 26 years, tight when the kids were young, more than we need as empty nesters. It's filled with memories and we're not going anywhere.
Your 2nd decade of life is not to early to start thinking about your sixth decade and beyond.
I hate watching media coverage on shootings. Their discussions on the ammunition and other basics is totally wrong. What I am seeing now is them trying to explain why some bullets go thru multiple targets and why others expend all their energy on impact. Their explanations are wrong. They should be explaining that military ammunition is designed to wound as it was determined a long time ago that a wounded soldier is more of a liability to the enemy than a dead soldier so metal jacketed ammo was designed to pass thru targets wile expending little energy and doing minimal damage to the target or deformation of the projectile. Hunting ammunition is, in general, designed to expend all its energy on the target by causing massive trauma with a bullet that is designed to deform as it passes thru the target. The rest of the reporting is just as inaccurate and/or biased to a political agenda.
Just think of the Kennedy assassination. The last bullet was different than the ones that preceded it. The preceding bullets were full metal jacket and designed to pass thru their target. The head shot was a very soft bullet, possibly a mercury filled hollow-point designed to vaporize both the bullet and whatever it hit on impact by expending all its energy on impact. Everyone has seen how Kennedy's head literally exploded on impact but the other bullets didn't do much damage.
Last edited by Three; 10-02-2017 at 05:33 AM.
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