Moments That Show What Happens In Las Vegas Should Stay In Vegas

Planning a trip to Sin City? The stories that come from Las Vegas go to show that anything can happen in a city that knows no limits.

If you think you’ve heard some crazy stories about the city, there’s a chance you’ve never learned the moments that show what happens in Las Vegas, should stay in Vegas. It’s thought there are almost 200,000 hotel rooms in Vegas, the brightest light in the world that shines from the Luxor, and plenty of ladies of the night who advertise on every corner. What does all of that mean? There are plenty of places to hide in the city, meaning just about anything goes. If you want a wild weekend with no rules, it could be time to book your own trip to Vegas.

Some people will do anything to get some more chips at the casino

Most of my family grew up in Vegas, meaning I had to drive there a lot when I was a kid. At the time, I had no idea how many people were just there to cheat on their families, but that’s another story. Most of my cousins ended up working in casinos and had all kinds of tales to tell.

I remember one of them telling me about how families would use their mortgage, sell their house, empty their retirement, and do just about anything to get some money to gamble. Apparently, one couple tried to trade their children for some more chips. Of course, they were turned away, but it goes to show that some people really will do anything to gamble.

It’s best not to threaten dealers in Las Vegas

I took a friend of mine to Vegas to have some fun. We ended up at a blackjack table with just me, him, and the dealer. That was until this other dude comes in. He slams about $20,000 onto the table and says he wants to play five hands at once. He then proceeds to bet $1,000 on each hand only to learn none of them won.

This was just the start. He does the same thing again and really loses it when he realizes he’s $10,000 down. The guy jumps up and starts threatening the dealer, but the security guards are quick on it and start to tase the guy. My friend and I just sat there and watched it all unfold.

Messing with security guards could get you kicked out of Las Vegas

I was in Las Vegas when a friend of mine messed up. He drank way too much and got kicked out of the club. He bumped into one of the other guys from the party on the way back to the hotel, who somehow convinced him they could get back in. As soon as my friend steps through the door, security is on him and drags him to the parking lot.

They handcuffed him to a bench until a cab arrived, slipped the driver some money, and off he went. It turns out he woke up to the cab driver pulling him out the back of his car five miles outside of town. Thankfully, he eventually managed to get back to Vegas.

Drinking too much can lead to almost getting arrested in Las Vegas

Okay, so I don’t remember much from the night, but I do know that it ended hilariously. I didn’t want to drink what everyone else was drinking that night, so I brought my own. It’s safe to say I’d had too much before I left the hotel room. Alas, I stumbled out into the night and got split up from my friends.

The next thing I know, it’s 3am, and I’m in some random hallway. Some guys are cooking through one door and what looked like a business meeting in another. That’s when one guy – and ten security guards – burst through a door and shouted, “You again!” I have no idea what I did. All I know is it wasn’t good.

A security guard was apparently all the medical help someone needed

It’s not the wildest time anyone has ever had in Las Vegas, but I still laugh about it with my friend because of the look on the security guard’s face. I have no idea what happened, but I somehow crawled my way through the hallways at the Excalibur. I must have been passed out there for a few hours before someone found me.

I woke up to this weird nudging in my side and looked up to see a security guard looking down at me. He told me he’d come to see if I was alive because one of them had caught me on the security cameras and thought something bad had happened. They didn’t call for help. Oh no, they just sent a security guard.

A silly idea turned out to be the way to sneak into a VIP area

We all booked a stay in Las Vegas and decided to head out for a night on the town. We found ourselves at the Bellagio in The Bank nightclub and wondered why it was so busy. We didn’t have to wait long for our answer: it was Lauren Conrad’s birthday, and she’d booked out the entire VIP section.

Of course, we wanted to try and sneak in, but we had to get past security. I thought it would be a good idea to change my number to “Lauren Conrad” on my phone and texted myself, pretending I was Lauren, to try and fool the guards. The best bit? It worked, and we got to party it up in the VIP section all night without getting caught.

Limos and VIP treatment was never on the agenda for one best man

A guy I know let his best man plan the entire bachelor party. He decides to take us all to Las Vegas for the weekend and says that he’s got loads planned. Limos, VIP clubs, drinks – he had it all under control. We’re hanging out in the suite he’s organized when there’s a knock at the door.

They said it was the limo, but we quickly learned none of that was on the agenda. In walk two adult entertainers who proceed to do a lot of… Entertaining. They even offered to crank things up a little, but we didn’t have the money to pay for that. The groom found out about it all and kicked the best man out of the wedding.

Some Las Vegas trips end with unexpected visits to the hospital

Mine’s not the craziest Las Vegas story, but it’s one that I’ll never forget. Like most people, I flew to the city to enjoy gambling and plenty of drinks. Sadly, I drank a little too much and ended up showing everyone else how much I’d had to drink all over one of the tables in the casino.

They immediately call for security, who start to carry me out of the hotel. That’s where I blacked out. I woke up a couple of days later in the hospital. It wasn’t until I managed to call one of the nurses that I found out I’d had my appendix removed. I still have no idea how I got to the hospital or who called for help.

An adult dancer tried to help herself to someone’s credit card

Every year, me and about 20 other guys all head to Las Vegas for the weekend. I remember drinking a lot, but that’s where all my memories start to fade. Fast-forward to the morning, and I wake up in an adult dancers club. I started to walk out when the manager ran up to me and said he’d help to get me home – and somehow knew my full name?

I thought nothing more of it as I climbed into the limo and headed back to the hotel. That was until I got home and tried to use my credit card. Turns out one of the dancers had charged thousands of dollars to the card when I was on the flight back.

A trip to Vegas almost caused one group to miss Thanksgiving

16 years old and living in Los Angeles. I had been drinking when someone randomly shouted that we should all go to Vegas for a break. Of course, I agreed and jumped in the back of someone’s car. That was until 1am when I suddenly sobered up and realized what a mistake we’d made.

Not only could none of us get in anywhere because we were all teens, but it was also Thanksgiving. We get to Las Vegas, looked at some of the lights, and bumped into a guy who tries to sell us some narcotics. As soon as we’d sobered up enough to act like normal human beings, we got back in the car and made it home in time for dinner with the family.

Babysitting friends in Las Vegas isn’t always the best fun

I flew to Las Vegas with seven friends for a bachelor party. We ended up getting a VIP booth at one of the casinos and learned that we only had to play a couple of rounds to keep the booth. So we sit there and continue to get free-flowing drinks, but one of the guys took it too far and ended up falling over.

The waitress came up and told us she was cutting him off because he’d apparently tried to literally pick her up in the other room. Anyway, everyone else somehow finds a way to split while I’m left babysitting him. I end up getting him to his room and head back out for a night of drinking.

One club was filled with adult movie stars celebrating the annual awards

21st birthday celebration. My buddy always wants to stick to the rules and gets a little scared about trying new things, but we managed to convince him to come with us to the club at MGM. We get there and quickly learn there was an adult movie awards ceremony going on. Of course, the club is filled with all these stars.

One woman called us over and started dancing with my friend. As soon as she learned it was his birthday, she spent $65 on shots and told him she was off to get her friends. Cue my buddy thinking she’d slipped something into his drink. He made us run out of the club before she ever came back, but I’ll always wonder what would have happened.

One uncle always has the best luck on his Las Vegas trips

My uncle has the best luck out of anyone I know. He says that he’s lost count of how many times he’s been to Las Vegas over the years, but he always comes back with huge wins. The catch? He only ever plays the slots yet still wins thousands of dollars. One year, he was playing the 25 cents slots and won $7,000.

The bells start going, and the manager comes over to take a picture before he’s allowed to go. The manager asked him to clear the machine so that his winning score wasn’t on it anymore. He proceeds to put 25 cents back in the machine and wins the ultra jackpot of $28,000. Wasn’t a bad night.

Asking for a drink led one person to beg on the streets

I managed to embarrass myself on a family vacation. I took a couple of friends along for the ride, but I somehow got separated from them and ended up having fun all on my own. I thought it would be a good idea to grab some drink from a store before heading back to my hotel room.

That’s when I saw a guy with one leg begging on the street. He asked for a drink, so I sat down and started begging with him while we enjoyed the drink. I must have been there for a couple of hours before my family found out where I was. I saw two shadows and looked up to see my folks. It’s safe to say they weren’t happy.

A Las Vegas trip ended up introducing two soulmates by chance

A buddy and I were both recently single and wanted to spend a weekend in Las Vegas to celebrate our birthdays. We were struggling to find anyone, so decided to have one last night on the town. That’s when we bumped into two girls and had the best night of partying in my life. I didn’t really click with the girl I ended up with, but we had so much fun.

We decided to extend our trip by a couple days, then a couple days more, then a whole week. I won thousands on the tables and used it to pay for a penthouse at the Bellagio. The girls even convinced a friend of theirs to stop in for one night. She eventually became my wife.

Working in Vegas revealed a lot of people are unfaithful

It wasn’t a trip to Las Vegas – I actually lived and worked in the city for a while. I landed a job at a non-profit clinic that checked people for any illnesses they might have caught from getting a little too intimate. Most of the time, it was locals who wanted to get checked out.

However, the weekends were always filled with people just about to fly home. They all wanted to get checked out before they headed back home to their partners or spouses. Guess we can imagine what they were doing all weekend? It turned out to be quite fun telling them that most of the illnesses we check for take a few weeks to show up on tests.

Ending the night in jail isn’t too uncommon in Las Vegas

I was young and really not thinking about what I was doing on my trip to Las Vegas. I ended up doing a few too many shots and thought it would be a great idea to try and steal cases of chips out of the VIP sections of various hotels. It didn’t take long for most of the security guards to catch me and throw me out.

I even tried to get a couple to adopt me before I blacked out and woke up in jail with a broken nose – no idea how that happened – and realized I had no idea where my friends had gone or what I’d done to get arrested. Thankfully, the charges were dropped, and I managed to get my nose fixed.

Getting split up left some with a crazy Las Vegas story

I thought it would be a good idea to have my 21st birthday in Vegas. I headed out to the city with six friends and proceeded to drink way too much at the Luxor. One of my friends ended up getting us kicked out after he decorated one of the tables with everything he’d had to drink before he fell asleep, so we decided to head back to the room.

That was until we realized he was nowhere to be seen. We sent out a search party. Half an hour passed before someone knocked on the door. Two security guards had found our friend and got him in a wheelchair. They merely tipped him into the room and said, “I think this is yours!”

A Star Trek convention turned into an unforgettable Las Vegas trip

Las Vegas and ‘Star Trek’ apparently go hand in hand as I decided to head to a convention in the city – on my own. I met these guys called Cowboy and Red who were hanging out with some older guy, Papa. We ended up drinking well into the early hours of the morning, but that’s where I forget what happened.

I think we somehow ended up guessing the password to a secret bar on the roof and spent most of the night there. I eventually woke up in a strange Airbnb on a bed covered with White Castle wrappers. Oh, and someone thought it was a good idea to give me a combadge tattoo behind one of my ears. Crazy times.

Lego bobbleheads can sometimes make strangers do incredible things

Me and some friends were wandering around Planet Hollywood mall when we spotted a stand that makes bobbleheads. I know, nothing amazing, right? These were different. They were bobbleheads that looked like you and were made out of Lego. The problem was I didn’t have enough money, so I randomly started asking people for $1 until I had enough.

One guy wanted to know why so I told him, and he took pity on me. The guy paid $70 for me to get my very own bobblehead. It eventually turned up in the mail a couple of weeks after my trip, and my mom was so confused. I didn’t know whether I should tell her the truth about a random act of kindness.

A Lady Gaga concert made one person realize how much they love her

I was lucky enough to get tickets to one of Lady Gaga’s Vegas shows and decided to take my mom along. I was having so much fun but apparently drank way too much. I remember all of the show. However, I have no idea how I ended up in the bathtub in our room. I also have no idea where I got a pizza, how I got it at 3am, or how I ended up covered in glitter.

The night quickly went from a moment I’ll never forget to one filled with confusion as I tried to connect the dots. All I know is I can officially say I’ve ugly cried about how much I love Lady Gaga in a bathtub in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas is filled with wild and exciting parties for all occasions

We wanted to find a particular bar but somehow ended up in a private party held for people working for FedEx. We noticed there was a table filled with name tags, so we just grabbed a couple and started to mingle. We managed to get our hands on plenty of free drinks and even some free food before we left.

We merely placed the name tags back on the table and walked out like we were always supposed to be there. Amazingly, it seems that no one realized we weren’t actually invited to the party. We actually had a really good time and didn’t take anything the other guest wouldn’t have enjoyed. Maybe they didn’t even show, considering we had their tags?

Drinking and Las Vegas seem to go hand in hand

Have you seen those giant bottles of drink that come in their own cart because they’re too heavy to move? Well, me and a couple of friends thought it would be a good idea to order one and finish the entire thing. I can’t remember much from the night.

Thankfully, we took plenty of pictures that proved we ended up in a suite with a bunch of strangers, ran around the MGM for hours, and had to beg a concierge for help to find our room in this giant hotel. It turned out that we were staying at the Luxor – aka, not the hotel we were in. I wish I could remember it because it seems like it was a wild night.

A reflection was easily mistaken for someone standing in the way

My husband and I were enjoying the casino when he needed the bathroom. He spent ages stumbling down the hallway but couldn’t work out why the guy was blocking the door and wouldn’t get out of the way. For some reason, he thought it would be a good idea to punch him in the face.

That would have been a problem in itself, but it was even worse when he realized that the “person in the way” was actually his reflection in the mirror. He ended up with a pretty busted hand and left broken glass everywhere. It didn’t take long for pretty much everyone else in the casino to run to the hallway to try and get a look at what just happened.

Jumping into a Las Vegas fountain probably isn’t a good idea

Like many of us, I wanted to enjoy the cheap drink available in Las Vegas. I went to a bottomless brunch and definitely got my money’s worth. However, most people who have been to Vegas know that it can get unbearably hot. I thought it would be a good idea for my friend to dare me to jump into a huge fountain in the middle of the plaza.

I took off my shirt and pants and jumped right in. Cue security telling me I had to get out immediately before they grabbed me. Oh, and they told me there was a good chance the water would make me sick because of the amount of stuff that gets mixed up in it every day.

A little less drink would have revealed a cheaper way to the next nightclub

I had been drinking a lot but still knew enough to make sure my group was safe. There were a lot of us in Vegas, so I called for a limo to make sure no one got lost traveling to the next nightclub. We all piled in and carried on drinking as we rode it out to the next place. It wasn’t until the morning that I realized what I’d done.

We paid $120 for the limo ride. Sounds like a fair deal, right? It would have been if I didn’t find out the club was literally over the road. If any of us had looked around, we might have noticed there was a pedestrian bridge that could have got us to the club in three minutes.

A girl tried to scam $10,000 out of an unknowing guy

My boyfriend and his buddies went on a trip to Las Vegas when one of them brought a girl back to the room for the night. He woke up in the morning to find nothing – as in she’d taken absolutely everything of his, including his clothes. She did send a text, though, that said she had taken some photos of him and would send them to everyone.

All he had to do was pay her $10,000, and she wouldn’t reveal any of the photos. He immediately contacted the local Canadian embassy, who managed to work with the police to track the phone and caught her. He managed to save $10,000 and get hold of the pictures before they got out.

Getting married in Las Vegas can seem like a great idea at the time

So I thought it would be a good idea to get married in Vegas. The problem? I was 19 and had only been dating this guy for a couple of months. It was supposed to be a fake wedding, but many, many drinks later, we decided to get the papers signed at city hall. We spent the rest of the night sneaking around as he had to sneak me into casinos etc.

I lost my purse, my ID, and my self-respect that night. Of course, the relationship didn’t last, but we were technically married for a few years before things were finalized. I’ve only ever told this to a few of my closest friends because I’m so embarrassed about it all.

A taxi driver tried to pull off one of the better know Las Vegas scams

The short version is I almost got caught up in a Vegas scam. I was trying to pass some time, so a taxi driver took me to an adult club. I got bored pretty quickly, and one of the dancers started getting a little too close for comfort. I called a cab and tried to get back to my hotel when things took a turn.

I told the driver what happened when he said he could sort it – no matter how much I protested. He drove down some weird back alley, told me he had to go, and pointed me to an abandoned building. The woman inside tried to make me pay a $200 delivery fee before I finally got a taxi back home.

One guy eventually walked away hundreds of thousands of dollars worse off

I was staying at Caesars Palace when I spotted this guy at the blackjack table. I remember him clearly because he had bright red hair. Anyway, I saw him in the morning and noticed he was still there that night. It wasn’t that strange for people to lose all sense of time. However, I couldn’t believe it when he was still there the next morning.

The staff told me he’d only leave the table for the bathroom or to eat some wings before getting back in the game. He was still there in the evening and even gathered a small crowd at one point. The staff said he was actually $75,000 up at one point but ended up walking away $120,000 out of pocket.