I found an article online that pretty much sums up what us locals were experiencing all weekend. The Hawaiian market where our shop on the strip is was covered all weekend with 1000's of people.. Luckily the company had put on extra security because Metro was no where to be found.

Here is the full article which is EXTREMELY long but good detail..

Excerpt 1 After initial reports that the weekend was relatively quiet, more and more information about shootings, arrests and brawls keeps trickling out. (Check out this story on Channel 8's Web site that carries the headline, "Violence Erupts During All-Star Weekend," or another story on the same Web site about the poor behavior of some of the NBA "fans"). I know for a fact that the Strip was closed twice on Friday night because of shooting incidents (saw it myself), that there was a 20-person brawl outside the Mirage's cab line at 5 a.m. that same night (my friend Marty saw it), that paramedics were covering up something that looked to be a corpse in front of the MGM Grand on Saturday morning (Sully saw it), and that I threw myself into the spirit of the weekend and shot somebody outside of Treasure Island because they were wearing a Yankees cap (fortunately, no witnesses). Who knows what else happened? Was it in Vegas' best interest to report every unflattering crime or brawl that happened? Probably not.

Here's the lingering question: Since Vegas' ultimate goal was to win everyone over and prove its worth as an NBA city, and since All-Star Weekend has previously proven itself as a destination spot for every gangbanger and troublemaker within a 750-mile radius, why not import extra policemen and National Guardsmen like New Orleans did before Super Bowl XXXVI, just to make sure everyone felt totally safe? Why would they want visitors saying stuff like "I don't care how long this cab line is, there's no way I'm walking the Strip" and "I wonder if we'll have the biggest riot in the history of sports this weekend?" In my opinion, Vegas dodged a major bullet this weekend. No pun intended.

He has more humorous accounts of being turned away from PURE even tho he had a $1000.00 table reserved because he was wearing Pumas. But the chick in the paperthin dress with her Bajingo open straight to the floor, her tits poking thru the paper and her bampow bootay barely covered was allowed to go in.

Anyway Kudos to Bill Simmons of ESPN's Page 2 for the *best Paul Harvey* Rest of the Story!!

Ok for me it is ALWAYS F-A-T tuesday.. i'm seriously thinking of selling my ass for advertising space.

I heard the All Star game is scheduled for NOLA next year.. well good luck to that.. if what happened here was any indication ..better them than me.. tho we did see Shaq yesterday at the Palms where i had to go for my Monday Vendor meeting.. Should have had Spud with me .. they could have been Face to Shoulder cuz Spud is only 6.6 not 7.1 or whatever Shaq is .. but dayam i need his shoes!!! I need to glue my camera to my hand instead of fumbling around to find it..

i'm sure there will be more later on.. after all it's only 7:01 am here and its RUN day..