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Title: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Wiggs on December 14, 2010, 01:24:08 PM
http://world-news.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/14/5649602-casino-bandit-escapes-with-up-to-2-million-in-chips#comments
updated 1 hour 33 minutes ago 2010-12-14T19:32:15


LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police are looking for an armed casino bandit who escaped on a motorcycle with perhaps $2 million worth of gambling chips from the posh Bellagio hotel-casino.

Police Lt. Clinton Nichols told The Associated Press the robbery happened quickly.

He says the bandit wore a full-face motorcycle helmet as he displayed a gun in a casino pit area then demanded chips and sped away on Flamingo Road on a black sport-style motorcycle.

Detectives are reviewing video and camera images of the robbery that occurred just before 4 a.m. Tuesday at the Las Vegas Strip resort.

No shots were fired and no one was injured.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 14, 2010, 01:25:17 PM
Those will be tough to cash in..... ;D
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: spinnis on December 14, 2010, 01:25:38 PM
Those will be tough to cash in..... ;D

Im guessing he has a plan
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 14, 2010, 01:28:24 PM
Im guessing he has a plan

Probably already has buyers lined up...but he will end up busted.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Wiggs on December 14, 2010, 01:28:36 PM
Can anyone account for Disturbia's whereabouts?
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Master Blaster on December 14, 2010, 02:01:14 PM
making me hungry!  :P

(http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/10200000/Potato-Chips-potato-chips-10250054-500-480.gif)
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: dan18 on December 14, 2010, 02:14:53 PM
Probably already has buyers lined up...but he will end up busted.
Most casinos change chips on a regular basis
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 14, 2010, 02:18:05 PM
Most casinos change chips on a regular basis

Aren't they computer chip coded now too?
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: kiwiol on December 14, 2010, 02:27:34 PM
It's probably Onlyme - got it confused with Doritos
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 14, 2010, 02:28:08 PM
It's probably Onlyme - got it confused with Doritos

LOL.......he ate all the profits....
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Master Blaster on December 14, 2010, 02:32:45 PM
It's probably Onlyme - got it confused with Doritos

making the getaway  8)

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Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: disturbia on December 14, 2010, 03:55:11 PM
Can anyone account for Disturbia's whereabouts?

dafssdvuhfahdfuhfdsafdia fbasdh   >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Wiggs on December 14, 2010, 04:11:47 PM
dafssdvuhfahdfuhfdsafdiafbasdh   >:( >:( >:(

You did it! ;D
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on December 14, 2010, 06:50:47 PM
making the getaway  8)

(http://www.forwarddump.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/pic19072.jpg)

lolz
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: StickStickly on December 14, 2010, 06:58:11 PM
(http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2009/6/78%20Obese%20Biker.jpg)
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Master Blaster on December 14, 2010, 07:00:43 PM
(http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2009/6/78%20Obese%20Biker.jpg)

ha ha
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: StickStickly on December 14, 2010, 07:06:43 PM
making the getaway  8)

(http://www.forwarddump.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/pic19072.jpg)
Funny thing is obeselyme's butthole is probably the size of the tailpipe of that bike
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: bodyofsteel on December 14, 2010, 07:23:07 PM
Funny thing is obeselyme's butthole is probably the size of the tailpipe of that bike
Now there's a pleasant thought! ;D Are you suggesting that the miles of manpipe passing through onlymen's butthole is more than the mileage on his bike? :o
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: newmom on December 14, 2010, 07:59:21 PM
that was an inside job
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Firemuscle on December 14, 2010, 08:06:14 PM
 That's pretty amazing.

 Pulling off the robbery is amazing enough. Then making a successful getaway on a motorcycle is unbelievable.

 Excellent thief.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: StickStickly on December 14, 2010, 08:07:37 PM
Now there's a pleasant thought! ;D Are you suggesting that the miles of manpipe passing through onlymen's butthole is more than the mileage on his bike? :o
No im saying the amount of methane coming out of onlyme's ass on a daily basis is 10 fold the co2 emissions of that bike.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: JOHN MATRIX on December 14, 2010, 08:07:43 PM
as we speak the man is probably already in a hole in the desert.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Firemuscle on December 14, 2010, 08:19:53 PM
as we speak the man is probably already in a hole in the desert.

 Yup. Some cop or thug took those chips for sure.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Parker on December 14, 2010, 11:37:22 PM
(http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2009/6/78%20Obese%20Biker.jpg)
Dude doesn't need a Ninja, he needs a Hachitachi Samurai 5000
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Fallsview on December 15, 2010, 12:21:49 AM
Dude doesn't need a Ninja, he needs a Hachitachi Samurai 5000

Alot of cows died for this guy.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: CalvinH on December 15, 2010, 07:44:31 AM
Dude is a fucking idiot...as soon as he ran outta the casino the chips were worthless.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Mr Nobody on December 15, 2010, 07:48:07 AM
Dude is a fucking idiot...as soon as he ran outta the casino the chips were worthless.
Sounds like Calvin has tried this before maybe after a few shots of Grey Goose.  ;D
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: CalvinH on December 15, 2010, 07:52:45 AM
Sounds like Calvin has tried this before maybe after a few shots of Grey Goose.  ;D

Eh,I don't mess around gambling for $ in Vegas ::)


....If I'm in Vegas and I'm gonna gamble I play for keeps....std's{with women},alcohol poisoning,drug overdose,arrest,soliciting a prostitute....
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: stuntmovie on December 15, 2010, 08:17:27 AM
Stealing chips!? It will be interesting to see the remedy for this kind of thieft. You would think that they would immediately lock up the casino and cash in all the chips that were the same denomination as those that were stolen and then declare all the same colored, uncashed chips as worthless.

I believe that there is some law or regulation about removing chips over a certain value fron a casino or not cashing them in over a certain time period.

Onlyme may know for sure about that and speak on the facts.

But if those chips no longer have any value, they could possibly become collector's items and thereby increase in value many times over

Gonna be interesting to follow this one.

And as far as finding him dead in the desert ..... that was the old remedy and is a rarity nowadays.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: CalvinH on December 15, 2010, 08:25:47 AM
Stealing chips!? It will be interesting to see the remedy for this kind of thieft. You would think that they would immediately lock up the casino and cash in all the chips that were the same denomination as those that were stolen and then declare all the same colored, uncashed chips as worthless.

I believe that there is some law or regulation about removing chips over a certain value fron a casino or not cashing them in over a certain time period.

Onlyme may know for sure about that and speak on the facts.

But if those chips no longer have any value, they could possibly become collector's items and thereby increase in value many times over

Gonna be interesting to follow this one.

And as far as finding him dead in the desert ..... that was the old remedy and is a rarity nowadays.


The chips had a chip in them ;)
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: stuntmovie on December 15, 2010, 10:22:58 AM
Calvin, you could be correct but I'm in a casino five times a week (at least!)  and this is the first time I've heard about a chip inside a chip.

I'll ask if that is a fact today.

If they do place chips inside of chips today, I would assume that those chips would only be inside the $100+ chips due to the expense of having them produced.

But with all due respect, I think you are mistaken.

If I'm wrong I'll send ya an unautographed copy of Scarface.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: spinnis on December 15, 2010, 10:25:58 AM
Anyone who thinks this dude didn't just drop these chips of at someone and got paid/shot right away is a dummy imo.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: tu_holmes on December 15, 2010, 10:27:29 AM
Most casinos change chips on a regular basis

Do you realize the cost of the chips? It's not cheap.

They change dice... Not chips.

Chips get recycled... Plus, chips are as good as cash. Many people take chips home with them and come back later and cash them in.

He is gonna get away scott free if he didn't have any accomplices and doesn't tell ANYONE what he did.

If he talks to anyone about it, then he'll get caught.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: CalvinH on December 15, 2010, 10:28:10 AM
Calvin, you could be correct but I'm in a casino five times a week (at least!)  and this is the first time I've heard about a chip inside a chip.

I'll ask if that is a fact today.

If they do place chips inside of chips today, I would assume that those chips would only be inside the $100+ chips due to the expense of having them produced.

But with all due respect, I think you are mistaken.

If I'm wrong I'll send ya an unautographed copy of Scarface.



Chips with big money value have chips inside them according to what I read online.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: CalvinH on December 15, 2010, 10:31:06 AM
Do you realize the cost of the chips? It's not cheap.

They change dice... Not chips.

Chips get recycled... Plus, chips are as good as cash. Many people take chips home with them and come back later and cash them in.

He is gonna get away scott free if he didn't have any accomplices and doesn't tell ANYONE what he did.

If he talks to anyone about it, then he'll get caught.



It will take him eleventeen thousand years to cash the chips in that slowly as to not cash in so many to get noticed.plus the Bellagio might just change their chips so he cant cash them in.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: tu_holmes on December 15, 2010, 10:32:33 AM


It will take him eleventeen thousand years to cash the chips in that slowly as to not cash in so many to get noticed.plus the Bellagio might just change their chips so he cant cash them in.

So that anyone else on earth who has Bellagio chips can't cash them in either?

Don't think so.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: newmom on December 15, 2010, 10:32:46 AM
actually stunt, it's true for some casinos, especially in the higher denomination chips. Which is in the not so bigger casinos the "eye in the sky" keeps close tabs on them.

I was at one of the casinos last night and asked a former worker if it was true, he said yes. He went to a seminar out in Vegas on the new technology of cheating dice and said some casinos out there have implemented this.

Like I said, this was probably an inside job.

Two of the biggest robberies in the CT casinos were conducted by former security employees. I was working, 2 men started a fire in the "show area" of the casino theater, right during "drop" time. For those that don't know, drop time is when they collect money from the slot bases and place new cash drop boxes on the tables and pull the ones from the previous gaming day. So they knew surveillance, most of security and State Police would respond to the fire. THen boom, since only ONE security officer was left to pull the drop boxes from the high roller area, these two clowns reach into the trolley (houses the boxes) and grabbed 4 boxes. But the one thing the idiots didnt do is wear gloves. Two investigators bolted to the trolley and said dont touch a thing until CSP arrives. I think the dumbasses forgot when they got their gaming licenses they get fingerprinted and were caught in 2 days.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: newmom on December 15, 2010, 10:33:40 AM
Do you realize the cost of the chips? It's not cheap.

They change dice... Not chips.

Chips get recycled... Plus, chips are as good as cash. Many people take chips home with them and come back later and cash them in.

He is gonna get away scott free if he didn't have any accomplices and doesn't tell ANYONE what he did.

If he talks to anyone about it, then he'll get caught.

Back from 92-98 they only cost about 50 cents to make
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: CalvinH on December 15, 2010, 10:36:21 AM
So that anyone else on earth who has Bellagio chips can't cash them in either?

Don't think so.

Ok I see your point but tell me how he's gonna cash all those high value chips in ???
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: tu_holmes on December 15, 2010, 10:43:01 AM
Ok I see your point but tell me how he's gonna cash all those high value chips in ???

Truly he'll most likely sell them to someone who is a known high roller for 1/2 the value.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: tommywishbone on December 15, 2010, 11:33:28 AM
There is no shortage of "Crossroaders" in Las Vegas who would buy those chips.

I'm guessing/hoping the chips are blacks, purples and yellows aka $100, $500 & $1,000 chips. Those would be easy to cash in and attract very little notice. If they are $5,000, $10,000 or $25,000 chips it will be a bit harder to cash them in but still very doable.

There are 100's of poker players who have $1,000's of dollars worth of chips in their Belagio Safe deposit boxes located in the poker room. Those guys could easily put those chips into play without getting noticed.

Casino chips are very very rarely replaced. The only time casino chips lose their value is after a casino closes down and goes out of business. Even then players have several months to cash in their old chips. Many casinos put "Specialty chips" in circulation all the time, to promote a big show or event that is happening at their casino, but of course all other previously issued chips still retain their value.

Micro-chipped chips aka RFID (radio frequency identification) chips are rare in Vegas. A few casinos tried them a few years ago but they were mostly pulled out of circulation. The Belagio never used them to my knowledge.

Edit- I now read/hear that on it's high denomination chips the Belagio does use RFID chips.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Hulkotron on December 15, 2010, 11:43:43 AM
The spiritual successor to Bobby Sly and Killdozer.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: dr.chimps on December 15, 2010, 11:48:02 AM
'You can either have the money and the hammer or you can walk out of here. You can't have both. What do you want?'

Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: CalvinH on December 15, 2010, 12:01:53 PM
Truly he'll most likely sell them to someone who is a known high roller for 1/2 the value.



Thats what I would think.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: tommywishbone on December 15, 2010, 01:30:23 PM
Our man in action. Getting in a little early morning cardio. I like this guy- he probably has a show coming up.   
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: dr.chimps on December 15, 2010, 01:40:09 PM
Our man in action. Getting in a little early morning cardio. I like this guy- he probably has a show coming up.   
Looks like a heavy-set Las Vegan, judging by his lumbering gait. I wonder if Wiggs can give us his whereabouts during the time this robbery occurred?   ;D
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Mr Nobody on December 15, 2010, 01:45:16 PM
Looks like a heavy-set Las Vegan, judging by his lumbering gait. I wonder if Wiggs can give us his whereabouts during the time this robbery occurred?   ;D
;D
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: tommywishbone on December 15, 2010, 01:48:00 PM
I think Wiggs is off the hook- Suspect is described as "... 5' 10" tall, 220 pounds and white..."

Although perhaps the cops should arrest him and beat him just on general principle.
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: MAXX on December 15, 2010, 02:35:12 PM
stupid people plays the casino they deserve all the misfortune they get
fixed
Title: Re: Casino bandit escapes with up to $2 million in chips
Post by: Alexander D on December 15, 2010, 06:49:31 PM
I always thought it would be easier to counterfeit a casino chip than it would be to counterfeit dollar bills... DISCUSS.


PS I doubt there are "chips inside chips"... saw one in half and check!