I saw on TV this morning that the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas was robbed by a man driving a motorcycle. He came in the high roller section and at gun point held up the casino. The police said he got away with 1.5 million dollars in gambling chips. Some of these chips are worth up to $25,000 a piece! It will be interesting to see how this robber will try to get money for these chips. The casino already said that the expensive gambling chips have micro-chips imbedded into the gambling chips so that they can locate them. I wonder if they can tell where the chips are right now.
I was thinking about the mental lapse of the security there. You watch TV shows and there always seems to be an eye in the sky at all of the casinos and shouldn’t there have been some security in there to stop this robber? All he did was go inside the casino dressed in motorcycle gear and helmet, robbed the casino, and ran out and left on his motorcycle. You would have thought Las Vegas cops would have been on his tail as soon as he left the casino, but they must not have been notified, either.
I think that I would be thinking on getting a new security department if that was all the best the Bellagio’s security could handle the robbery. I know if I was one of the high rollers that was in the casino and saw someone robbing the place and didn’t see any kind of security there to help that I would go to another casino who would watch the place!
Mike,
ReplyDeleteI agree that they need to update the security. I can't believe he simply ran in there grabbed them and ran out. I also wonder if they detect where they are now. You would think it being Las Vegas they would have better security and no one getting away with something like this.