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Definition of ballistic
1 : extremely and usually suddenly excited, upset, or angry : wild
He went ballistic when he saw the dent in his car.

Yeah the security handled it perfectly. Their job is to prevent incidents not make them happen and the guy shouting I been to jail and I'm gonna put work in on non cops. Wait for the cops or for him to leave on his own. And it's a casino where he lost a lot of money so let him vent and leave on his own, calling the cops is wrong in this instance. If someone acts like that at the corner grocery store then yeah get on the phone to police immediately. Well handled by floor and security imo.

Good point about possible publicity stunt.

I dont recall him making any violent threats; more veiled threats (if you all try to do xyz, ill do work). Perhaps he made direct threats and I didn't notice it among all his other trash he was spewing. I am not defending this guy at all; rather, defending how security handled it. I just think that safety is the # 1 priority for security at that point in time. I think their main concern is, and should be, ensuring everyone's (patron's, staff's, and the guy's) safety, and by not engaging him and letting him mouth off, they are doing so.

I stand corrected; my apologies to OP, that is not sensationalizing.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ballistic

definition 1, I'm using the word correctly

i got you covered

Sorry I didn't get to the 2nd page shoulda looked to see if there was already a response.

To the best of my understanding the police were not called.

If the guys were sleeping security should have been called at the first instance as to a problem .This type of thing should not have been handled by management ; security could have come and said "no sleeping".

As in my post it wasn't registration who stopped me from sleeping but security ; unsure as to whether he had a gun in which case it was the police.

Put yourself in a naive tourist's position; would you even go near this group of sleepers even if the antagonist wasn't loud? He buffaloed them with no small amount of threat ; the manager should stay away. The police should have been called .

The man victimized everyone in the area.

what are the qualifications to be labelled a 'rapper' ? Never heard of him I would be surprised if he makes his money from music lol


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ya he has 37k followers on twitter, I think a good # of college 'instagram model' girls have more numbers than him

silly rabbits - dude is dumping $$$ in a casino - i've seen worse behavior that was only mildly addressed by casino security - they were not going to throw him out along with his future lost revenue - get real

as for him claiming he and his "crew" were targeted because they were people of color, that isn't a far-fetched assumption - only someone who is un-woke might think it not a possibility - after all, it's one thing for the floor to go to the persons sleeping and advise them they can't sleep and if they continue to do so, they have to leave, but it's a whole other thing for the floor to approach the PLAYER who is NOT sleeping and IN A GAME and tell him they have to leave, too - WTF?!?

i'd have been calling foul on that floor person's actions, too

willing to bet that scenario would most likely NOT have happened had the PLAYER been of another hue

that's my dime . . . spend it well

This guy admitted to stabbing 12 people in jail and spent 3 YEARS in solitarty where he couldn't keep a bunkmate because he would beat them close to death each time. If he wasn't permanently banned from all MGM properties for this behavior it's an outrage. I am afraid he will come back in here for vengeance.

lol what? how would he be out of jail, they would have thrown him in solitary, no?

Where are the real security when you need them

"I want you to exit this guy from the premises and use his head to open
the freaking door."

Bull****

According to one of the interviews I saw, he was in solitary for 3 years.

quoted from a fresh NPR article for sublime_fan and those who agree with him, emphasis mine

if potential of it getting physical is the reason to not immediately take action, then it’s time to immediately bring in the authorities trained in physicality.

I was just given UNCONFIRMED information that he is now banned from all MGM properties. Took a few days but got there if true.

Edit: VERY unconfirmed to the point where I do not believe that they are accurate now. I got them in such a way that I thought they were accurate, but now I don't think so. Until we hear officially or I update this should be considered nothing more than rumor, and not a well founded one.

The way I understand what went down, and given we don't have video evidence but I've spoken with players and staff, was that the sleeping person WAS told to leave without speaking to Casanova 2x, and he took issue with it because they were part of his group of friends. He was upset that he wasn't asked to ask them to leave, and the reason the situation ended the FIRST time even though he was causing a scene was that HE asked the person to leave and they did on their own after he asked.

Any and all situations CAN be racially charged, but I don't believe this one to be one of them based on what we know.

What happened at that paper was tragic and devastating to the families and friends of the deceased; however, don't extrapolate this and make the argument that every case where a person is yelling or screaming and not making direct threats (from what I recall, he only made veiled threats of "doing work" IF someone tried to remove him) is a legitimate threat to commit mass murder. I think the recency effect is in play here and you making conclusions that aren't logical. I don't think you understand how many cases of threats that police departments deal with.

I do agree that cops could have been called; I said that perhaps they were waiting on the cops in my first post. I am not defending his actions and I agree with others that said that this is not good for business since it disturbs other patrons. However, I have played in that room and with the location not being in the middle of the casino; I think the floor people had the area covered (from the limited views of the video), and they did the best thing to let it blow over. Additionally, I am sure that other security, via cameras or via headsets; were involved and aware of the situation and had mitigation plans in the works. We saw a snapshot of the situation, and in my opinion, security did a fine job in just letting him rant.

fair enough, i’m not saying it’s exactly the same. OTOH, i don’t think people should lose their lives because the police have too many threat cases open, they need to gather information correctly and prioritize but that’s a different discussion.

in this specific instance, they could easily find his past violent history and recommend in no uncertain terms that he be barred from MGM permanently with or without a criminal charge. it’s an actual good thing for everyone else that the police can provide and what they took an oath to do, protect and serve.

as much as i feel someone’s past shouldn’t haunt them forever, i’m not losing sleep about violent felons having a tougher go of it if they put themselves in situations and conduct themselves like this. i’d argue a truly reformed person would not fly off the handle if he felt discriminated against and would use the non-violent method of expressing how he was wronged and gathering support for a boycott and/or protest, that sort of thing.

play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

as far as security having a handle on the situation, i don’t buy that for this incident in the least based on the presence of an entourage/group along with the guy in question. it’s not 6 on 1 as it would be if he was solo, it could’ve easily escalated into an all-out brawl where innocent employees and players would be in danger and security present would have little chance of controlling it in a timely manner.

Narcissists dream of becoming becoming social martyrs.

Guy should save his money instead of donking it off at the tables, because if he's a hip-hop nobody now he'll probably be a hip-hop nobody with insurmountable debt tomorrow.

damb right.
hope he stops going to that toilet mgm national harbor and starts playing at borgata again.

Securing a place on Love and Hip Hop?

I agree completely on the portions of your statement that I underlined.

However, we will have to agree to disagree on your last paragraph. I don't see an entourage there; I only am going off what I see in the video, which is one dude yelling. I don't see his entourage close by, and though OP may relaying details about his friends that fell asleep as the source of this issue; I didn't notice a bunch of them. I acknowledge the possibility of a fight/brawl/violence occurring due to an obviously heated situation; however, I think the fundamental difference in my viewpoint is that that I think security would have escalated made a fight/brawl/melee more likely to happen; if they intervened more aggressively (either physically or verbally). I personally think the quiet, but present, stance was ideal for the situation; based on the video. Plus, the audio isn't great so we can't hear what security or others are saying; we can only hear villain.

Good discussion btw.