Man Kills Himself After Vegas Resort Takes Away His Free Buffet For Life Deal

(Source) The day before he put a gun to his head and killed himself at an M Resort buffet on Easter, a Las Vegas man filled a box with his complaints against the resort and its employees and mailed it to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In his final, angry message to the world, delivered to the newspaper Monday morning, John Noble blamed his suicide on depression that set in after the Henderson resort awarded him free meals at the buffet for life then banned him from the property in 2013 for harassing some of the women working there.

“Today, I end my life due to the M Resort Spa Casino and its employees,” the 53-year-old Noble wrote in one of two suicide notes he included with an obsessively detailed dossier on the people he blamed for destroying his life. At about 4:50 p.m. Sunday, Noble shot himself in the resort on Las Vegas Boulevard South near St. Rose Parkway. Henderson firefighters were already at the resort’s parking garage extinguishing a burning vehicle police now say belonged to Noble. Henderson police said Monday that unidentified items left in the vehicle prompted a response from Metro’s hazardous and explosive material response team, which deemed the vehicle safe to be towed from the scene. The garage and part of the resort remained closed until 11:15 p.m. Sunday. The Studio B Buffet was still shut down Monday, but it is slated to reopen today.

Noble’s hand-bound stack of notes and documents stretches on for more than 270 pages and includes a table of contents, photographs and a two-hour DVD of him talking about his troubles. The second-to-last page, titled “The Curse,” spells out all the harm he wishes on those he believed wronged him.  Included on the list are several women who worked at the buffet and who were showered with gifts and unwanted attention by Noble after he won meals for life there in September 2010.

The man’s stack of papers also details a suicide threat he made on Easter 2013, three weeks after he was kicked out of the resort and about a month after his mother died.  According to a Henderson police report supplied by Noble, the authorities were called by a woman who said he was stalking her and had threatened to kill himself. Police placed him in protective custody, and he eventually spent three days at the state psychiatric hospital — all of it documented in his dossier. Later in 2013, Noble contacted several local media outlets in hopes they would tell his story. In December of that year, he met with a Review-Journal reporter at a Starbucks on Rancho Drive near Bonanza Road. Noble was nervous, particularly when he saw Metro officers walk into the coffee shop. He wanted to avoid them overhearing his conversation with the reporter. Noble continued to attack the resort and its employees on social media, posting photos and personal information about them, including their home addresses, right up until his death Courts in Henderson and elsewhere in Clark County had no record of any restraining orders against Noble, who did not appear to have a criminal history.

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I’m not sure I quite understand what M Resort thought was going to happen when they took away this guy’s free buffet for life ticket. This is obviously sad because a man lost his life and suicide is no joke but did no one at the M Resort see this coming? Really? You can’t give a guy a free buffet for life then be like, whoops, sorry, you “stalked” a few waitresses, give that ticket back. That’s as soul crushing as soul crushing gets. Next to the lottery a free buffet for life is the greatest prize a person can win. Could you imagine if you won Powerball then got all the money taken from you? No you can’t because that’s incomprehensible. And as for the stalking. Do I think he crossed some lines? Yes, of course I do. Why? Because I’ve been to a Vegas buffet before. The Vegas buffet has two types of people. People from out of town visiting Vegas and the regulars. The regulars are the guys who gamble for a living, usually play slots, wear sweatpants in public, and stalk waitresses on their free time. That’s just the ec0-system of Vegas, and the fact that M Resort didn’t see any of this coming means they’re both irresponsible and stupid. Never get involved in a land war in Asia, never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line, and never give a guy a free buffet for life and expect your waitresses to go unstalked. Be better M Resort, be a lot better.