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Bellagio in brief lockdown lastnight after armed robbery


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I swear I read old stuff at the rx that Fishhead was 2 miles from the 3 Mile Island event, 100 yards from the tragic Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing, 50 feet from the epicenter of the olympic bombing in Atlanta, and had 3rd row seats for both of Johnny Vander Meer's back to back no hitters.

 

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quote from a poster over at 2+2 who was in the Poker Room at the time of the robbery:

 

 

 

 

Intense action in the poker room last night. Just after midnight a huge crowd of people came running in to the poker room from the casino floor. At first it looked like a fight had broken out. Then people started diving for cover under tables, and running for the exits, and then word flew through that there was a shooter on the loose in the casino. 
 
The poker room practically cleared out in like 30 seconds. There was no trampling or anything that I could see, but it was mass chaos. Plenty of chairs got thrown around, and people were leaping over the banister. Probably 100k or more of chips just left there on the tables while people hustled out the back emergency exits. 
 
Outside, some police cars went sirening by, but within about 5 minutes we got the OK (from whom, I have no idea) to go back inside.   True to form as degenerates, within about 30 seconds the first games were back up and running, though the floors were still trying to figure out what to do. "We haven't gotten the all clear, but we can't stop you from playing..."
 
Rumors flowed like wildfire. A shooting in the lobby. A robbery gone bad. 4, then 5 robbers tried to steal from the role store. SWAT was there, and had killed one of the robbers in the parking lot. 
 
Eventually via Twitter and other news sites we learned that there was a shot fired, but it was inside the store, which was closed and empty at the time. No one was shot. No one died. One robber may have been taken into custody, still looking for others. Police had cordoned off an area of the casino for investigation. The parking garage was locked down for awhile, trapping some of the locals. 
 
Eventually all that was left to do was swap stories. By far the best thing I've seen was this pic, allegedly of the robber that was caught:
 
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I was staying at the Bellagio a couple years back when that lady drove into the crowd

actually we were coming in from the airport when it happen and the roads were blocked off 

the limo driver went behind all the hotels and got us there

was paranoid the rest of the trip walking on the sidewalks

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I was staying at the Bellagio a couple years back when that lady drove into the crowd

actually we were coming in from the airport when it happen and the roads were blocked off 

the limo driver went behind all the hotels and got us there

was paranoid the rest of the trip walking on the sidewalks

 

 

I remember that... was that also right outside the Bellagio? Fuckin' cursed.

 

 

On the other side of the street of Belliago

By Paris where the public transit vending kiosk are

 

Was at Harrah's that night.  Had a live thread on it.

 

Was some crazy shit.  

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remember reading that thread

our room faced the strip and I remember the Cop cars lights flashing well into the night 

 

When shit was first going down, the local news thought it might have been a terrorist attack.  Kinda scary at first.

 

But nope.  Just some cracked out meth whore looking to take out innocent people because she had a bad day. 

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When shit was first going down, Cop knew it was a terrorist attack.

 

But nope. Just some cracked out meth whore looking to take out innocent people because she had a bad day.

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