Which one of you is responsible?
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/23506980 (http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/23506980)
In other news, the DMF staff does accept gratuities. Large chips okay [thumbsup]
Odd, they say that he's done it before with the same helmet but the picture they show has a different, plain grey helmet. *sigh* Yet another reason for people to give me weird looks when I walk around a store with my helmet still on.
Hmmm...
Randimus seems to spend a lot of time in Lost Wages.
What can you do with a handfull of big chips?
mitt
The guy in the video says that it'll be hard for him to cash them in.
I wouldn't think it would be too hard to sit down at a blackjack table with some chips and get change for them though.
Or take them to the cage in another casino on the strip.
Or give them to say, the moderators of a web board to occasionally mix in with their regular chips. [thumbsup]
I happen to know it was JohnC
Go in, play a bit, then cash out more than you went in with. Thus the helmet so he can go back later and not be identified.
The Doc
If it was one of us then its the post "Just bought a 1098 and put a deposit down for a Diavel"
Quote from: D Paoli on December 14, 2010, 09:55:30 PM
I happen to know it was JohnC
Are you talking about me or the dmf'er with the user name JohnC?
[laugh]
And here's the biggest thing I keep wondering...
How did security not decide to confront the guy before I ganked the chips?
I mean, he was walking around on a casino floor in a make the beast with two backsing fullface helmet.
I'd think that would arouse just a little bit of suspicion. [roll]
Quote from: Rameses on December 15, 2010, 03:58:32 PM
Are you talking about me or the dmf'er with the user name JohnC?
[laugh]
This guy.
(http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=4760;type=avatar)
He stole 5 and 25k chips
they are rare and each one is laser etched with a unique number.
if you drop one at a table, you can bet every camera in the joint will be on your ass.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rG_v5-4_a8w/SMAiyuvmAeI/AAAAAAAAAMs/fFNoZdORUgk/s400/$35000+Bellagio+Chips+2008.jpg)
Quote from: ducatiz on December 15, 2010, 07:38:27 PM
He stole 5 and 25k chips
they are rare and each one is laser etched with a unique number.
if you drop one at a table, you can bet every camera in the joint will be on your ass.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rG_v5-4_a8w/SMAiyuvmAeI/AAAAAAAAAMs/fFNoZdORUgk/s400/$35000+Bellagio+Chips+2008.jpg)
Oh shit.
I figured he probably grabbed a tray of yellows.
That's a different story.
What would be fun is to take a pocket full of those into a casino and just randomly drop on here and there.
Quote from: VisceralReaction on December 16, 2010, 09:36:59 AM
What would be fun is to take a pocket full of those into a casino and just randomly drop on here and there.
or even better, just cash them in and call it a night.
the SN aspect of the chips will make it difficult. He might be able to get a % on the dollar selling them to someone else, but...
I'm not going to name any names, but didn't somebody recently purchace the Nicky Haiden 848, moved from CA to New Mexico, name starts with an "S" and ends with "ew" -four letters.
I read something about federal tax notification stuff for anything over $10K.
If he plunked down a $25K chip at any given time that is going to raise some eyebrows.
Quote from: Randimus Maximus on December 16, 2010, 09:30:48 PM
I read something about federal tax notification stuff for anything over $10K.
If he plunked down a $25K chip at any given time that is going to raise some eyebrows.
Any casino winning over $10K will require the winner to declare it as income and report to the feds. Even if you deposit a check over $10K, the bank is required to report it to the feds. Anytime a large cash transaction happens, Uncle Sam wants to know about it.
May be this individual is just a Dare Devil ?
Intent w, just pulling off the heist .
Now they have some interesting collectibles.
May be it's D.B. Cooper ?
Dolph (http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn198/DoubleEagle_photo/moon.gif)
Quote from: Randimus Maximus on December 16, 2010, 09:30:48 PM
I read something about federal tax notification stuff for anything over $10K.
If he plunked down a $25K chip at any given time that is going to raise some eyebrows.
10K Winnings. If you walk in with >10k cash, they don't report it.
the news reports are making a big deal out of the RFID and laser etching, but that doesn't do anything. it just helps the casino know they aren't fake chips, it doesn't tell them that those are the stolen chips.
if he's smart and patient, he can get most of the money, but he has to do it right.
Quote from: ducatiz on December 17, 2010, 04:19:22 AM
the news reports are making a big deal out of the RFID and laser etching, but that doesn't do anything. it just helps the casino know they aren't fake chips, it doesn't tell them that those are the stolen chips.
They can do a lot more. With the RFID tagged chips, if they are smart, have the chip serial number on RFID and they are scanning every chip that passes a door. So now they have a record of the serials of all the RFID tagged chips that went out the door when he did and their serial numbers. If the *do* have that sort of system and info, then those chips are worth $0
If used 'correctly' you can do a lot more with RFID than prove if it's a fake or not.
hell....all he has to do is stand on a random street corner handing out chips to the masses and sit back and watch the pandamonium of people go back and try and use them as a piece of organized chaos and then slip in underneath the belly of chaos and rip off even more money in a different form....helluva diversionary tactic/set-up...
just sayin....
Quote from: Sad Panda on December 17, 2010, 05:25:02 AM
They can do a lot more. With the RFID tagged chips, if they are smart, have the chip serial number on RFID and they are scanning every chip that passes a door. So now they have a record of the serials of all the RFID tagged chips that went out the door when he did and their serial numbers. If the *do* have that sort of system and info, then those chips are worth $0
If used 'correctly' you can do a lot more with RFID than prove if it's a fake or not.
From what I have read in the past, they are not unique RFID serials. Just a single identifier just like a UPC for each chip and the laser etching is the same way.
Dunno what they do - but an RFID chip has the capability to carry a unique identifier like a serial number with no problem...
I know but I don't think they set them up that way. They were used to prevent fake chips not to prevent cashing in stolen chips. But I don't know for sure. I read that they were set up like a UPC.
Maybe the guy could try to get a job in one of the cashiering positions, and occasionally try to exchange the stolen chips for real ones?
Quote from: zooom on December 17, 2010, 05:45:26 AM
hell....all he has to do is stand on a random street corner handing out chips to the masses and sit back and watch the pandamonium of people go back and try and use them as a piece of organized chaos and then slip in underneath the belly of chaos and rip off even more money in a different form....helluva diversionary tactic/set-up...
just sayin....
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