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Among other odds and ends, the lawsuit states the following:
In exchange for his gambling at the casino, Hilton executives agreed to pay for his roundtrip flight from San Diego, his lodging, food and beverages,
Roel, who was known to be a skilled and knowledgeable player, had a $50,000 credit line at the casino, which he rarely went over,
However, on the weekend of Sept. 29-30, Roel was drinking heavily and betting "irrationally and erratically" from the time he walked in the door with $117,000 and dumped it all on a blackjack table,
Despite the fact that executives should have known or knew Roel was drunk, they extended him a credit line of about $840,000, and finally (big surprise),
Hilton executives' behavior violated their own policy and the regulations of the Nevada Gaming Commission.
According to the lawsuit, someone affliated with Mandalay Bay arranged for Roel to stay at that hotel-casino the same weekend. Once he was there, executives extended him a line of credit despite knowing he was drunk. That credit line was for more than $100,000, the lawsuit states.
Mandalay Bay executives continued to extend Roel credit after his wife and sister flew in and asked them not to accept his bets, extend his credit line or serve him drinks, the lawsuit states.
Roel, who entered a treatment center since that weekend, is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, recovery of the money he bet that weekend and forgiveness of the debts. He also wants the Hilton and the Mandalay Bay to be precluded from seeking criminal prosecution and from reporting him to TRW.
Come on, Stephen, did you also stumble into the casino? And if you would have won a million dollars in your drunken stupor, would you have given it back? Fat chance.
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A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On.
A Florida woman, who was taken off an airplane in Dallas and asked to pull a vibrating sex toy out of one of her checked bags, has sued Delta Airlines citing public humiliation. The woman, who was already on board awaiting takeoff with her husband, had her name called over the airplane’s PA system and was then asked to walk with airport officials down to the tarmac.
When advised by a security agent that something was vibrating in one of her bags, she told the agent that it was an “adult toy” that she and her husband had purchased on a trip to Las Vegas. Unlike most toys, I guess batteries were included in the purchase.
She claims that she was forced to open her bag and take the vibrating toy out of the luggage – and here’s the humiliation part of the lawsuit – she had to hold it up for visible viewing. She was then allowed to repack and return to her seat for the flight back to Florida.
The lawsuit alleges that passengers on the side of the plane facing the unveiling of the out of control “toy” saw everything (gasp!!!!!) and that three male Delta employees “began laughing hysterically” and made “obnoxious and sexually harassing comments.”
The woman told a newspaper that she didn’t want to be embarrassed any more than she already had been … then promptly filed the lawsuit – which promptly made her the butt of talk show hosts’ jokes around the country.
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A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On.
A Florida woman, who was taken off an airplane in Dallas and asked to pull a vibrating sex toy out of one of her checked bags, has sued Delta Airlines citing public humiliation. The woman, who was already on board awaiting takeoff with her husband, had her name called over the airplane’s PA system and was then asked to walk with airport officials down to the tarmac.
When advised by a security agent that something was vibrating in one of her bags, she told the agent that it was an “adult toy” that she and her husband had purchased on a trip to Las Vegas. Unlike most toys, I guess batteries were included in the purchase.
She claims that she was forced to open her bag and take the vibrating toy out of the luggage – and here’s the humiliation part of the lawsuit – she had to hold it up for visible viewing. She was then allowed to repack and return to her seat for the flight back to Florida.
The lawsuit alleges that passengers on the side of the plane facing the unveiling of the out of control “toy” saw everything (gasp!!!!!) and that three male Delta employees “began laughing hysterically” and made “obnoxious and sexually harassing comments.”
The woman told a newspaper that she didn’t want to be embarrassed any more than she already had been … then promptly filed the lawsuit – which promptly made her the butt of talk show hosts’ jokes around the country.
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Baseball, Apple Pie and ... Lawsuits?
For a youth league baseball coach, what could be worse than going 0-15? Ask Rodney Carroll.
Soon after Carroll guided the Brunswick (Ohio) Cobras to a winless season in 1999, a summons arrived, informing him that he was being sued for $2,000 by the father of his catcher.
The complaint? Poor coaching. Carroll's incompetence, the lawsuit claimed, cost the team a trip to a tournament in Florida.
"I didn't understand it," says Carroll, 43, a street-maintenance worker who had volunteered for two years. "I wanted to be a coach just to help kids."
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Good Joke - The Farmer replies
A big city lawyer went duck hunting in South Louisiana. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's field on the other side of a fence. As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up onhis tractor and asked him what he was doing. The litigator responded, "I shot a duck and it fell in this field, and now I'm going into retrieve it."
The old farmer replied. "This is my property, and you are not coming over here."
The indignant lawyer said, "I am one of the best trial attorneys in the U.S. and, if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take everything you own."
The old farmer smiled and said, "Apparently, you don't know how we do things in Louisiana. We rule ourselves under the Napoleonic Code. We settle small disagreements like this with the Louisiana Three Kick Rule."
The lawyer asked, "What is the Louisiana Three Kick Rule?" The Farmer replied. "Well, first I kick you three times and then you kick me three times, and so on, back and forth, until someone gives up."
The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom. The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the city feller.
His first kick planted the toe of his heavy work boot into the lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees where he immediately vomited.
The geezer's second kick nearly ripped the man's nose off his face.
The barrister was flat on his belly when the farmer's third kick to a kidney nearly caused him to give up.
The lawyer summoned every bit of his dark heart, vengeful will and managed to get to his feet and said, "Okay, you old coot now it's my turn."
The old farmer smiled and said, "Naw, I give up. You can have the duck." |
