Return of the Monkey
For those that don't know what SniperCon is; The annual meeting of the Sea Snipers, short for Sea Snipers Convention. We have a get-together every year to drink, fight, get in trouble, and of course, eventually get naked. [SS]Chief again secured the accomodations which were outstanding! Thanks Chief! [SS]Vapid took over while Chief was in Japan and made sure to arrive early with [SS]Grifter in tow to open up the house and get us situated. This year [SS]Grifter and [SS]Snakbite provided the official gear with a set of dog tags and t-shirts (front and back) for everyone, thanks boys! We brought PS2's and 360's, and of course...Guitar Hero.

For some reason SniperCon always contains some sort of monkey reference. Last year it was the unfortunate consumption of too much Golden Monkey beer, and this year it was calling for the monkey at the blackjack tables at Hooters, more on that later...



Day 1-Friday: The Arrival & Recruit Tasker
Grifter and Vapid were the first to arrive followed by myself aka Rator, Cuervo, Snakebite, Shooter, Hoot, SportoFu, TuefelHunden. and Raiden was unfortunately held up at the airport and never got to make it, so we paid our respects to him whenever possible. Vapid came to pick us up at the airport and take us back to the house which was fantastic! 4 bedroom house with 3 baths, a pool, a hottub and a pooltable. Rator, Cuervo and Vapid headed out to pick up pool toys, and the rest of the guys went shopping and bought alot of beer and food that we never finished. We played a lot of Guitar Hero the first night and day, but i still couldn't beat Cowboys from Hell or Bark at the Moon.

Our newest recruit, Recruit 10, actually lives in Vegas so we decided to have some fun with his first tasker. Tasker #1 (full video) required the recruit to acquire 2 of the best pizzas available and a case of beer. This was to be delivered to our house in Vegas (unbeknownst to the recruit) in a ladies bikini top at a specific time. He had no idea that we were all going to be there. Well he showed up on time (a bit early actually) and we had another little surprise for him. We had Vapid strip down and we tied his hands and gagged his mouth and had the rest of the SS chase him past the recruit and out the front door as he got there. Of course he didn't know what the hell was going on, and it wasn't until I introduced myself that he actually realized that he was actually delivering to the whole crew. We made him ride the slide, jump in the pool, dry off, then jump in again, it was fun. We drank, played more GH, then off to bed, Cuervo snores...


Day 2-Saturday: Go Carts & The Strip
Wake up, drink, make the recruit call us and take us to his shop. He puts new shit in old cars, here's his site. The shop was cool, he does good work. We couldn't find anything that he could put in Vapid's [SS] Audi other than a few dicks, an ass and a set of balls. We rolled out of there and left the recruit. Made our way to the indoor go cart track. It's just like a video game cept your arms hurt when the game is over. They give you a helmet, a neck brace thingy, a race suit, and all that good stuff, and they record your groups stats, here's ours. (SS members are outlined in red, and me and Shooter are the only dumbasses who didnt use our SS names cause we're stupid, so he's Chuck C and I'm Rich H.) We had a great time, and Vapid had a great view for taking pics while we raced.

After racing we hit the strip. I forget where we had walked from or to, but we did get hot dogs at this little diner off the strip. Oh yea, now i remember, we met this chick, must have walked past this thing, and this guy, then talked to that chick again. These chicks wouldn't talk to us, this guy tried to give us directions, and this dumbass got his boat stuck or something. Tuffy met some chick from Carolina. Checked out Paris, and Bally's, the Venetian and the Harley place, then headed back home to rest up for a night out at Hooters Casino.

Ok, so we roll up into Hooters and commandeer a blackjack table, then it was Maker's and Coke all night. We kept this chick on her toes all night, and had to give it to her as a group. We found Hoot his own personal slot machine, and even got a ride on the Official Hooters Hummer golf cart. Oh, and Shooter mistakenly passed out in the other livingroom on the couch and well, we asked Vapid if he would kindly teabag him for us so we could take a pic. He of course, obliged us.


Day 3-Sunday: ESPN Sports Zone & The Strip
Wake up, realize it's sunday and hit ESPN Sports Zone to catch the games and get some food, and um, drink. They had this boxing game there and Cuervo had played before so he showed the rest of the noobs whats up. Head back home and gear up for a night of trouble on the strip. I don't remember where we went, but this happened, and we went here, and made this guy take a picture with us. So i think he made us these frozen things that had upside-down testtubes full of like 151 rum or whatever you wanted, then they freeze or something, or you pull them out to release the goodness, i don' t remember cause everyone chipped in to make sure i have the most testtubes, thanks guys i didn't get as wasted from it as much as i got heartburn. But we made some new friends on our walk through this mall thingy that must have connected all the damn casinos in Vegas, but these ladies were nice, this one liked Vapid, and this one liked it rough.

We moved on and headed back out onto the strip. Found a pack of ladies walking around that were having a bachelorette party and the chick had one of those shirts that has a list of 20 things you have to do on your bachelorette party, one of them was to get a man's undergarments. Glad we could help you ma'am. Made our way to the Luxor, and rode the lion thingy, hard. This place was cool. Vapid must have stopped every single person in the casino and tried to get them to take a picture with him. He tried to get this girl to dance but she wasn't having any of it. We tried to bet 35 cents at the 3 card poker table, but Kim Jong iLL wasn't having any of that. So somehow we ended up at the Excalibur and met up with the Thunder from Down Under. Oh yea. They were acosting chicks to take pictures with them so we had Vapid deploy a stealth mission to get into the photos. They got mad, but warmed up to Vapid when we told them who we were. Of course we had to do a hi-five for Raiden. These guys ended up being pretty cool, and the one guy signed Vapid's stomach.

So we made it out of then un-incarcerated and headed through the MGM and somehow back to another refill station for our slushees. We told this guy he missed a spot and just said we'll take care of it ourselves, then we headed home and made some BBQ.


Day 4-Monday: Gun Range & Hooters
Wake up, call the recruit, make him tell us where the gun range is. We mobilize and head to the Gun Store. We shot mp5's mp40's, m16's, thompsons, sniper rifles, pistols, and of course, Osama. They gots lots o' goodies there. We try not to spend too much money there cause we're hitting Hooters for the last time tonite so we head back to the house for some good old fashioned pool-volleyball. BTW, don't EVER let Tuefel referee your volleyball matches...So it was Sporto and Cuervo vs Rator and Hoot, and even with Tuffy calling EVERYTHING FOR CUERVO'S TEAM, we still won, HAaaaaaa! I think i hyper-extended my shoulder though so i guess we came out kinda even.

We eat, gear up, and head back to Hooters. We again commandeered a blackjack table and made the recruit meet us out there and make sure we always had drinks, and made him root for us audibly. We all won some good money that night, and had some great dealers. We ended up being the highlight of the gaming floor that night since we kept screaming "monkey! monkey bust!" which we found out means to have the dealer get a face card and bust on their hits. We were really pretty loud. We made good friends with the pit boss there and he set us up with our own table. I think he had fun with us that night. Jeff i think. We had to leave early (1am) to get back to the house and clean up a little before we all had to leave early the next day.


Day 5-Tuesday: Clean up & Fly
Wake up, clean up, pack up, jet out. Thanks to Vapid and Chief for taking care of the house, thanks to Grifter and Snakebite for our SniperCon 06 memorabilia, and thanks to everyone else who made it out. Pray for Vapid who had to bring home and drink the rest of the 163 beers left in the fridge.

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