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Enzo Loyal user CA 243 Posts |
Well, yes, it does sound a little like double standards, but:
1. Didn't the $25'000 chips have RFID tags in them? 2. The casino changed chips immediately after the robbery. Are there many people that routinely forget to cash $25'000 chips and then keep them lying around for a couple of weeks before cashing them? |
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts |
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On 2011-02-10 18:05, Enzo wrote: The only way to answer your question is to state what an individual said a long time ago on the Johnney Carson Show. I do not remember the exact dollar amounts quoted but it went something like this. He had just purchased a professional Football Team and Johnney asked him. Isn't $75 million dollars a lot of money to pay for a football team? To which the individual replied, " Yes it is, if it is your only 75 million dollars". So you see it is all relative. People who play with those denomonation of chips do not cherish them as you or I would.
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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brangwinj Regular user 114 Posts |
Forget about it someones under arrest as I type.
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Jerry Inner circle Some where in Florida 1402 Posts |
The Fun continues...
By OSKAR GARCIA, Associated Press – Fri Feb 25, 6:22 pm ET LAS VEGAS – Police searched Friday for a man suspected of donning a fedora, fake mustache and sunglasses in a stickup that netted more than $33,000 in chips from a Las Vegas casino. It was the second grab-and-run heist in Sin City in two months. In December, a bandit snatched $1.5 million in chips from a craps table at the Bellagio casino then sped away on a motorcycle. Police do not believe the holdups were connected or were linked to organized crime. Police said Steven Gao, 45, went to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino on Thursday and grabbed the chips from a pai gow poker table. He also pointed a gun at a card dealer who tried to stop him before he escaped in a cab, robbery Lt. Ray Steiber said. Police arrested cab driver Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, 61, within hours of the robbery. "He had knowledge of what was to occur," Steiber said. Yamaguchi and Gao worked together at the same taxi company, according to an arrest report. Also taken into custody was Edward Land, 41, who police said met Gao at another casino after the robbery and received $17,000 in stolen chips. Land told police Gao owed him $15,000 and robbed the casino as a way to pay back the debt, the report said. Land told detectives he drove Gao to the Rio on the day of the heist and became suspicious when Gao donned a fake mustache and wig. "Land said he knew Gao was 'going to do something,'" the report said. "Land said he told Gao that he was 'crazy,' and Gao told him, 'Don't worry about it.'" Land said he later drove Gao to catch a bus to California. Authorities recovered nearly $18,000 in Rio chips — nearly $17,000 from Land's home and $1,000 from Yamaguchi's cab — plus a silver revolver and wig suspected to have been used in the robbery, according to the arrest report. Yamaguchi and Land were being held in the Clark County jail for investigation of robbery, burglary and conspiracy. Bail for each was set at $25,000. The robbery came after the stickup at the Bellagio hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Police have arrested Anthony Carleo, 29, the son of a Las Vegas judge, in connection with that robbery. He has not yet entered a plea and remained in Clark County jail with bail set at $1 million. The Rio is owned by Caesars Entertainment, the world's largest gambling company by revenue, and is home to the annual World Series of Poker. The Bellagio robbery involved chips mostly worth $25,000 — a denomination unusual for most gamblers to possess. Chips worth $1,000 or less are far more common in Nevada casinos, making them tougher to track. |
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Tony45 Veteran user 384 Posts |
These idiots didn't even last 24 hours, two got pinched and theyre looking for the third, lol.
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