Bellagio bandit gets $1.5 million in gambling chips

[Gerald]

Metro Police are looking for an armed man who made off on a motorcycle with about $1.5 million worth of gambling chips Tuesday morning from the Bellagio hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip.Police Lt. Clint Nichols said the man parked his motorcycle outside the casino's north valet, then walked directly to a craps table at about 3:50 a.m. He pulled a gun, demanded chips and fled the casino.He was last seen wearing a full-face helmet as he fled westbound on Flamingo Road on a black sport-style motorcycle. No shots were fired and no one was injured.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/dec/14/police-robbery-bellagio/



Note: Updated Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 | 2:09 p.m.

[Gargamel]

Saw that. Ballsy guy.

He'll probably have to fence the chips, as they're watching for people trying to cash in large denomination chips. Easy to compare who's cashing them in, vs who's played with chips that big. Facial recognition software FTW.

[Madox58]

If you can get out with the Chips and not be caught?
They are just as good as cash and useing a good fence?
You could get 50% face value pretty easily.
So you stoled a Million, you get 500 thousand.
Not bad.
Those Chips are covered by Insurance so the owner gets a Million back.
Then the Chips are easied back into the system.
Not a bad scam when you really think about it.
:haha:

[Platapus]

Except that the higher denomination chips have RFID chips inside and they have already been flagged. No fence is going to buy these chips. The best he can hope for is to sell them to some idiot who does not know any better.

All in all, a rather stupid robbery. Massive risk, and not only from the police, and little gain.

[Castout]

Is there any smart robbery from the sound of some of you guys I get the impression that some of you would attempt one or two given the right opportunity :D.

Because a person or a group of people cannot fight a system especially when he or they committed wrong UNLESS that person or a group of that people are the system.

[Gargamel]

Is there any smart robbery from the sound of some of you guys I get the impression that some of you would attempt one or two given the right opportunity :D.


Hell, I've always wanted to hijack a UPS truck. Be like christmas morning.

jack the truck, transfer all the packages to another truck fast, use an EM detector to find if any packages are emitting any RF signals, leave those behind, drive away quick. Crew of 3-4 could do it quick. nah I havent thought about it. Course I'd never do it LOL.

[Castout]

Hell, I've always wanted to hijack a UPS truck. Be like christmas morning.

jack the truck, transfer all the packages to another truck fast, use an EM detector to find if any packages are emitting any RF signals, leave those behind, drive away quick. Crew of 3-4 could do it quick. nah I havent thought about it. Course I'd never do it LOL.

Umm i'm the sort of stupid guy such that even in lawlessness I would still be lawful...maybe partly because I'm a coward and partly because I believe in not doing unto other what you wouldn't want to receive yourself.

I sometimes dream what if I had gone so bad and enjoy them before God forgave all my sins. Some people would label me stupid and think the capability to commit crime as a sign of intelligence.

[TarJak]

Good luck with that.:hmmm: