Imagine a casino where people save empty machines ...

Imagine a casino where people save empty machines for their invisible friends. A place where if you sit at one of those machines you can ensure a verbal Altercation will take place. Just don t expect management, security or the on-site Gary police to care or protect you because they won t

Let s start from the beginning, when you walk in you there s a line for a temperature scan and ID check. Although they recommend a mask hardly anyone inside the casino is wearing them. Smoking is also allowed and there is no cleaning of the machines or of the casino at all. It s the perfect setting for the COVID-19 spread.

I visited there yesterday evening after a year with my husband and special needs adult son. I saw my favorite machine and waited for a seat to open up. When It did and I went to sit down the woman next to the machine started yelling at me and told me that the person sitting 10 feet away at another machine was waiting two hours to play this game. Next thing I know there were three people surrounding me, backing up this woman s claim. I walked away to avoid confrontation.
Next I found an open machine and sat there to play. My son and husband we re not playing but we re near me. There was a man and woman nearby each playing one machine. The woman would periodically get up and leave the machine with no money and no card. My husband tried to play that slot machine but the man Would quickly speak up and claim she d be right back., so we left it alone. A 4th slot machine opened up and my son went to sit and play it. What happened next was a shock. The 6 2 man went and called security to falsely accuse my family of taking up all the machines. There were three of us and we only playing 2 machines. There were two of them but they wanted to play 3 slot machines. In their mind that was acceptable. We didn t know what was going on until we heard the yelling and saw the finger-pointing. At that point I stood up To see what was going on. This man and woman began to verbally attack me and my family. I commented how no one was at the machine my son was playing and that we have a right to play at any slot machine that was available, so I thought. At that point, I heard the woman tell her friend to hold her back because her intentions apparently were to physically attack me. I asked security to call the police and I tried to call 911 myself. When the on-site Gary police officers showed up with the casino security supervisor, I informed them that I was in fear for my life and my families and wanted to file a police report against this person who was planning to attack me. The Gary Indiana police Officer told me that he would Not file a police report but will notate what has happened. I emphasized how aggressive this man and woman had become and how they were planning to attack us but that fell on deaf ears. Apparently unless she directly threatened to hurt me to my face I had no right to file a police report. Surprisingly we were asked to leave the casino. Definitely not the outcome I expected.
This was an experience I needed to write about and share. I d hate for anyone else to go through this.
This casino is extremely poorly run, has minimal security, no cleaning and very aggressive patrons who save all the machines. ITS NOT SAFE AVOID this place. AmeriStar is a neighboring casino has been newly remodeled very clean and a 100% better casino