Bellagio Casino Robbed of $2 million

[Coito ergo sum]

...in chips...

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101214/ap_ ... io_hold_up

Might want to file this one under "crooks who didn't quite think it all through..."

[Thinking Aloud]

They're just trying to go into competition with pawiz.

[Feck]

It was Pawiz ...he's got a quote in for new chips

[Bella Fortuna]

The chips are down...

[JQisAwesome]

The article says $20,000 - not two million.

Might want to file this one under "crooks who didn't quite think it all through..."

Why? The chips are redeemable for cash.

They can now return to the casino, unmasked, and cash the chips in over time.

[Coito ergo sum]

The article says $20,000 - not two million.

What was the "similar heist" that occurred a couple of weeks ago.

Might want to file this one under "crooks who didn't quite think it all through..."

Why? The chips are redeemable for cash.

They can now return to the casino, unmasked, and cash the chips in over time.

They know what kind of chips were in use and stolen, because the chips are marked and high value chips are RFID protected.

[cowiz]

The article says $20,000 - not two million.

Might want to file this one under "crooks who didn't quite think it all through..."

Why? The chips are redeemable for cash.

They can now return to the casino, unmasked, and cash the chips in over time.

Casino chips have RFID's in them so they can be identified.

[JQisAwesome]

Oh.

I thought the RFIDs all transmit the same code and it only protects against the production of counterfeits.