Anyone remember a Reddit thread about a shooting before the Las Vegas Strip Shooting?
64 2017-10-09 by ChubbyElf
The OP said that there were gunshots on his floor, and when he exited his room, he met a security guard who was on the phone with his wife/girlfriend who told him to go back to his room. Elevators were shut down and his keycard did not work to open the staircase, so he was stuck on the same floor as the shooter.
The issue is I cannot find the original thread. I remember seeing it a couple of hours before the Las Vegas Strip Shooting, around 9 or 10 PM Central Time, which was 2 hours before the shooting.
22 comments
1 hoeskioeh 2017-10-09
Saw it too, I think in the megathread over at /r/news. Got gilded, IIRC. Was a comment, not a thread.
1 SpinPHD480 2017-10-09
This is correct. It was one of first comments I saw on shooting and I was reading it in a the first thread that was in front page from the news reddit.
If I recall, the person just has checked into hotel like 15-minutes prior and got to his room before this happened. He couldn’t exit and was told to go back to room. He also mentioned something about wanting to eat since he just got in.
1 jonp5065 2017-10-09
I saw it too, but I remember him being on the floor below. Could be bad memory though.
1 MaestroLogical 2017-10-09
Plot hole.
Staircase would NEVER need a key for entry once inside. You only need a key to enter from outside.
Fire law. You can't restrict access to exits.
1 SenatorAstronomer 2017-10-09
You're right, staircases from the floor would never require a keycard to get into the stairwell. Once you are in the stairwell, you might need a keycard to get onto the floors, but not the other way around.
1 kill-all-the-elites 2017-10-09
Wrong, I worked at places that had staircases which were locked, because it was a different department, unused, a service staircase, or for other reasons
1 SenatorAstronomer 2017-10-09
Service staircases or unused staircases are one thing, but there has be to an unlocked way down in a hotel, it's fire code law. You cannot trap people on a floor of a building.
1 SwingsetSuperman 2017-10-09
Every hotel stairwell I've seen in Vegas has been unlocked from the room side and marked emergency. There is no way in hell they could legally keep those locked
1 Alexxx753 2017-10-09
Exactly.
1 hoeskioeh 2017-10-09
There are systems that only unlock access once the fire alarms are active.
1 MaestroLogical 2017-10-09
Bullshit.
I've worked in hotels for over 15 years. There are multiple reasons besides fire that guests would need quick, unobstructed access to the exits. You can't require that they be cognitive enough to remember their key in the event of an emergency. Hell, those keys stop working all the time, get programmed for wrong amount of days etc.
No stairway would be locked in any fashion from the interior ever.
1 SpinPHD480 2017-10-09
Found it. It was in Vegas shooting mega thread that was on front page and in the news sub.
Was looking out my window when I heard the gunfire and saw the flashing. My first thought was "huh, that's gunfire". I've seen it and heard it many times. Then a pause and my brain was saying "nah, too many rounds, must be construction". Then more gunfire. Pause, more. Pause. More. Pause. More... for a good two minutes.
At that point I'm convinced it's a jackhammer. I'm thinking "crap, who's doing work this late. Well, off to get food".
Elevators weren't working not two minutes after I heard the gunfire. Buttons didn't even light up. After about five minutes, I tried three stairway doors. Keycard didn't work. Now I'm thinking something is up. Tried the hallway phone and waited on hold for ten minutes. Went back to my room and heard the helicopters. Looked out at a road full of red and blue flashers.
Oh. Those were gunshots! Turned on TV... yep. Wait, FROM the Mandalay...
About that time I heard a maintenance guy in the hallway telling his wife he's safe and on floor (mine) and that someone on 32 blew out their window and was spraying down into the concert crowd. He saw me and said to get back in my room. Confirmed hotel is in total lockdown.
Just a few minutes ago, the cops swept through the floor. You could hear their radios. Must have been three. They stopped at my door, banged on it, announced it was the police, said they heard the TV and asked my name. I gave it, didn't open the door. I heard one of the others say "confirmed" and they banged on the door across the hall, did the same, got their name and moved on.
That surprised me. It was a good hour after the gunfire.
Even most of the cruisers had moved on by then. Copters are a few streets over.
I wonder if the NetApp Insight conference is on for this morning...
1 hoeskioeh 2017-10-09
MVP.
1 ChubbyElf 2017-10-09
Wow, nice find. Can you link the original post? I swear I remember going to bed before the shooting happened, but I also remember reading this before I went to bed.
1 ChubbyElf 2017-10-09
Nice find. I guess my memory was incorrect, because I thought that this comment was posted before the shooting occurred.
1 SANDERS_NEW_HAIRCUT 2017-10-09
Oh fuck dude you got a detail wrong. You're one of them!! What do you know!?
1 HeavenlySedated 2017-10-09
Interesting that he talks about a maintenance guy. Didn't the last press conference say something about a maintenace guy?
1 SpinPHD480 2017-10-09
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/73r0uu/comment/dnsik7w?st=J8KJC2T1&sh=e74ec0c3
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1 Xerider 2017-10-09
Is it this Australian you are asking about http://www.theage.com.au/world/hardcore-las-vegas-shooter-in-room-next-door-says-australian-man-brian-hodge-20171002-gysy9v.html
1 Juan__Lennon 2017-10-09
Trump fucked up like half a year ago, Tweeting about this hoax Las Vegas "shooting."
MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. This was ligtly discussed by the media, then covered over as nothing. Then this cluster fuck of a messed up psyop goes off the rails and jumps the shark.
1 hoeskioeh 2017-10-09
Any link/archive of tweet?
Paddock started scouting locations months ago...
1 jimmyscorncracked 2017-10-09
Link?
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