Large THEFT! Rio Hotel Las Vegas 6/29/07

[glimmertwin]

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IF Rio posts warnings/limitations on other rooms' safes, but NOT on the OP's room safe, then that is a big point in his favor .....


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Wouldn't he have to be able to convince the court though, that he'd never stayed in a hotel room with a safe in before?

FWIW, every hotel I've ever stayed in has had clear notices about the value of goods/property to be left in the safe, and recommends that items of real value be left in the hotel safe.

I still feel for the OP though. It's just the kind of dumb thing I'd do myself.

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It didn't start until he mentioned spending 25-50k in a casino, at that point he went from "poor guy" to "stupid rich dude" and we know how people on the internet hate people with money.

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It just seems unlikely that someone in the habit of dropping this amount of money in a casino would be familiar with the signs that they generally put on these hotel room safes, and usually also on the back of the hotel door, telling you to leave cash or valuables in the hotel safe.

[kemystery]

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You said you have played 20k-50k on the tables. I know losing 32k blows and it was stolen from your room but you seem to be pretty well off is it really that big of a deal?

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leveling?

[Naero]

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Dude harrah's really does have awful security.

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A couple years back my friend and I were held up by their security for about 4 hours because they thought our California Driver's Licenses might be fake. They ran them through a card reader, which apparently didn't work, because neither of our cards worked. I asked them to show me a card that actually worked on the machine and for 'some' reason they couldn't. They told me, "well you see our book tells us that California has these little bears on their licenses, and yours don't." We wanted to just leave but they wouldn't give us our IDs back until the Director of Security got in about 7 hours later, so I called Las Vegas Metro who promptly told us that there's nothing we could do and they had the right to keep fake IDs -- I explained numerous times that they weren't fake and needed an arbitrator who could officially determine this, because Harrahs obviously couldn't and we shouldn't be inconvenienced for their ineptitude, but they just kept repeating that casinos have the right to confiscate them.

Anyways, we ended up waiting in their little breakroom for another hour or two before they finally came to us, gave us back our IDs, and said we could go. I asked how it finally got resolved and they said, "nobody would wait around that long for fake IDs so they must be legit." Don't worry the guy in the poker room told us he'd take care of us with some fat comps when everything was resolved -- after reminding him of his promise numerous times he broke out the bank and hooked us up with 10 bones each for our 4 hour ordeal.

What OP is going through is just ridiculous.

[dDiabolical]

It amazes me that someone as rich as you, who can blow $50k in a night on table games, has a myspace page.

Seriously, why??

[vendbien]

Haven't read all other responses, but I know this much... NO casino is just gonna take your word for it until the police have issued their findings. If true, can imagine how tilted you must feel. But if you knew how many of these 'situations' turn out to be staged (like 9 /10 ) you'd know that ALL casino legal depts. have standard procedure - which includes police findings.

The guy really screwed you by leaving the 'bundle bands'... as if to say 'this is staged'. Otherwise, why not leave the money in the bands and take the bands with him. And why not close the safe door so that it might take longer before discovered giving him more time to go undetected. Sounds like inside job by a guy who had the room previously, or...

[ActionFreak]

I was leaving money in the bellagio safe in my room until I realized how easy it is for someone knowledgable to get into them. It would not open one day so I called the front desk. It took the guy 10 seconds to get into it.

also, they never asked me for ID. they just asked me what was in the safe. if someone knows what is in your safe and can get access to your room.. they just have to call and tell the front desk that the safe is broken.

if someone knows what they are doing, they probably just need to look around and see who is carrying a lot of money up to their room and then nothing is going to stop them

[Jamougha]

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they wouldn't give us our IDs back

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what. the. [censored]. Tell them you want to see a freaking cop.

[MTBlue]

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It would not surprise me at all if the maid was in on robbing you. I mean she had clear access to your room and has been around enough safe's to probably know how to open them. She also knows there is no cameras.

Even worse she is apparently crying, making it look like she is very sad that you lost your money. It looks too obvious though, at least to me, that she is trying to make it look like she is so upset you lost money to deflect blame from her. I don't know many women or maids that would cry if someone they didn't know lost 32k.

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Probably b/c of this she will likely lose her job (easy scapegoat).

[FUERZA_D1EG0]

king that suck men , harrah's needs robert de niro for manager

[Oliver Nipples]

The in-room safes are the most unsafe place in the entire room to put valuables as people know that they are there. All electronic safes where you "create" your own code have a very easy hard reset function that is the same few button presses for all models of the safe. I know for a fact that one model is simply hold down one of the 10 digits and enter a two digit code and poof unlocked.