Craziest times used to be back in late 90s when Comdex was here. People weren't gambling, but it was a mob scene north of Flamingo. Some traffic guy in a helicopter was in horror with each traffic report. He said it would be quicker to walk back to a hotel than take a cab. Problem was he said it looked like thousands were doing just that so it was a sea of people around the Convention Center too. Those times were nuts, people were putting on secondary shows in every suite in town. You literally could not book a decent suite in town because every tech idea had to have a suite to show it off privately. Casino managers today talk about how nice it is not having Comdex, they hated it. They might get a decent crowd in the pits after 10pm, but before that and all around the slots it was a ghost town. For sheer volume though it was hard to beat that time, the visitors, the media, the bigwigs...it was all the biggest zoo you ever saw.
Wildest time I ever saw was New Years Eve 2000. That was the year someone was electrocuted climbing the power pole by the Paris I believe. I was outside in front of the Barbary Coast and there were lots of gals climbing up on light poles showing us their breasts. Before long the police came in and pulled the gals down, handcuffs them and hauled them off in Paddy wagon. Some guy jumped near me and his flailing arms knocked off my glasses to the street. Of course my glasses were almost immediately smashed into dust by about 1000 feet. 
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