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originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
At this point, it's like they don't even care that we know they're full of it. They just go through the motions.
We know they cleared guests from other rooms, and that they didn't know about the connecting room till they breached the first one, and they had to breach that door to enter that room. Had it been open, for him to run back and forth firing from both windows, why would they have to breach it? Who locked it, since he was sound dead in the first room? Did someone else exit that room, posing as a scared guest? Did the police arrive seconds after the guard was shot, or five minutes, or twelve-plus? Was the guy shot through a closed door, or an open one?
Yeah, that whole second room is weird. Everything I've read about it doesn't add up.
And now that they've changed the timeline -- again -- I keep wondering how could anyone think it was a good idea to evacuate the other guests down that exact same hallway that the gunman had just shot the security guard in??? That makes no sense at all and it's the number one reason I don't buy it. If anything, they would be notifying those guests to stay in their rooms and take cover in the bathtub or something.
Her diagrams and pointing rod.
Giving a whiff of an investigative interview but asking no hard questions, at all. In fact...she pretty much set up all the details of what happened and then asked him "...so this and that happened, right?"
Ellen was a good choice for the one and only interview that he will do.
And I personally do not believe it had anything to do with money (or tickets to games) as floated in the usual disinfo circles as an excuse that Campos bailed on other interviews.
originally posted by: rowdyrich
a reply to: MotherMayEye
No, Campos said it sounded like drilling, the other guy said he thought someone was using a jackhammer
Yeah, and the police audio doesn't mesh with the new official reports, either. Located this site, with some excellent data, videos of the audio, and some other fascinating stuff, and a good breakdown of all of it.
I did listen to the audio, and he's accurate on what he quotes from that, so if you don't have time to listen, you can trust his excerpts.
originally posted by: Boadicea
Hrmph. Truth be told, if it were me, I'd probably do exactly this; i.e., find one host/show to tell my story too, and then climb under a rock. I think a lot of people would.
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
Maybe some of those "convincing" police calls are from somebody (other than a police officer) with a police radio.
Not hard to do.
originally posted by: KansasGirl
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
Thank you for posting those various early accounts!
What strikes me as particularly crazy about those accounts is how incredibly, incredibly detailed they are.
So, they can't honorably claim "it was really early in the investigation, so we got some of the events mixed up" or something like that. Those stories are DETAILED!
Almost like they were trying TOO HARD to make us believe it. A lot of times when a person lies, they will give too many details because they think if they are super specific, their story won't be suspected as a lie.
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
Having some sort of official map of the place would be nice, but we have to work with what we have at hand!!
This is my own count, and it could be off someplace, so anyone, feel free to poke holes if you see an issue! Just looking to learn as much as we can here.
Hi LGE,
I can't poke holes in anything you determined. The floor numbers are difficult to nail down.
What I will say is that the lobby/casino level appears to occupy the area you have labeled 1-5 in the photo you posted. I base that on photos and videos I have looked at. It shouldn't be so difficult to nail this info down, but it is. There is a 'Beach Level' below what is shown in the photo you marked up, too. (I realize it's the one I posted, but I just wanted you to know there is another sizable 'floor' below the lobby level, in case you didn't realize that.)
I want to also say that in January 2007, someone updated the Mandalay Bay Wikipedia entry to have a floor count for the first time. That floor count was 39. (Link)
I see no reference in the footnotes to support that though.
On August 28, 2009, someone else edited that entry to read "72 stories,' for seemingly no good reason either....Link.
Then, on November 3, 2009, someone edited the entry to read "43 floors" commenting "Edited the number of floors; this thing is NOT 70+ stories tall. It's 43 stories tall."...
Link
No resource/citation was given to support that number of floors.
But nothing was provided for the others, either.
STILL, no resource was cited to justify the floor number of 43 that was provided via Wikipedia. It just appeared without any question or justification.
I am still kind of hung up on the floor numbers. I wish there was more than Wikipedia to justify the '43 floors' claim.
I'll let go of this though. I am not going to solve this where I am...not in Las Vegas, that is.
There were only two Windows broken on Mandalay Bay hotell that night.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: spy66
There were only two Windows broken on Mandalay Bay hotell that night.
I'm not even sure about that much -- High Resolution Pic of Mandalay Bay -- Where are Broken Windows?
We really have no idea when exactly were those windows broken and by who and why...
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: MotherMayEye
Ooops! I made a fine mess of that! My apologies -- you made yourself very clear, and I agree, and I just did a poor job of expressing that I could totally understand if he had taken the exclusive interview approach to begin with. Instead they turned the whole thing is a huge fustercluck.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: spy66
Yes, that's the official story and no, it doesn't all add up...
But the best place I know to start is with what I can and cannot verify and go from there. At this point, I cannot be sure of much of anything, but I'm pretty darn sure those windows weren't broken when this picture was taken!