One Helluva Hose

Brad Johnson, the retired CIA station chief now doing YouTube videos, had something very interesting to say about the long piece of hose found in Stephen Paddock’s room at The Mandalay Bay Hotel.  Do you remember seeing it in the pictures?  I do, and I always wondered what it was for.  According to Johnson, it was for attachment to a gas mask that was in the room.  So that Paddock-Schmaddock could breathe, the other end of the hose had a battery-operated fan and would hang out the window.  Whoever this psycho was, it seems to me he was anticipating taking a stand against any SWAT Team that came crashing through the door … and he planned on living to spend his money.

Before SWAT came into Room 135 they’d toss flash bangs, smoke grenades, tear gas.  And Sheriff Joe Lombardo did say Paddock Schmaddock did have an escape plan, although Sheriff Joe didn’t elaborate.  This plays into that John Cullen video where you can hear a woman saying, “Is that somebody going down a zip-line?”  Our 135 shooter sounds more and more like a mercenary every day.  Call me crazy but I don’t think this was his first rodeo.  This guy knew what he was doing.  This guy was a pro.

The merc gets on the ground and finally one of John Cullen’s helicopters does something useful and extricated him.  I know I’m reading a lot into the presence of this hose, but it sounds like one helluva hose.

I just had a brain fart: “Hello Interpol?  Alex here.  I'm fine.  How are you?  Yes, I was wondering if you could help me out on something.  What do you have on Serb mercs?  I looking for one with experience mowing down innocents in the Balkans back in the 1990s, specifically somebody who might be the same age and/or bears a passing physically to Paddock, somebody with a reputation for doing anything for money.  Yeah I’m fishing.  Yeah I’ll hold … “