This story has been told so many times between my group of friends, that I'm not sure if every detail is accurate, but here is my best account...
For my bachelor party, a dozen guys went out to Vegas, staying at the
Planet Hollywood. The first full day, a few people started day drinking vodka, using kool-aid powder as the mixer. Not mixed kool-aid. Just the powder. They go to the pool, and one guy, Sean, nearly trips and falls into the pool while still fully dressed. A few people poolside give him the sarcastic clap for managing to not fall in. For whatever reason, he decided to one up himself by swan diving into the pool. He was fully dressed, with his backpack on his back - containing his wallet, cell phone, digital camera back when that wasn't part of your cell phone... Security ends up heading over, and he tries to get away by walking into the snack bar kitchen. Gets told he can't be in there, so he heads over towards the VIP cabanas. He tries to do a secret agent style crawl under the velvet rope, and gets snagged on it, knocking it over, before security finally catches up to him. They tell him he has to go back to his room or else he'll be thrown out of the hotel. He wouldn't listen to his friends, or to security. The only people who could get through to him was this older couple that for whatever reason chose to get involved. He was livid, having lost a few hundred dollars the night before. His quote at the time was, "I've lost my money, my wallet, my phone, my camera... I'm ruined! My life is over! I might as well go around punching people in the face!" The older couple finally convinced him to head upstairs, where we took advantage of his limited responsiveness by covering him with complimentary wadded-up newspaper and complimentary Axe body spray, before dumping his mattress sideways and leaving him in a heap in that narrow space between the bed and the wall. We all went to dinner, where former President Bill Clinton walked in (celebrity sighting!), passing right by the remaining eleven of us.
Post script - around midnight that night, as I was walking back from
Casino Royale to catch up with some of the group at Imperial Palace, I get a call on my cell phone that comes up as Sean. I answer, and he explains that he caught up with the group at IP. One of our buddies had taken apart his phone to air out, salvaging it, and that he had a run at the craps table to recoup his losses. Greatest single-day recovery I'd ever seen!