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Big verdict in silvermining case

Last year at the Silverton, I found a bunch of quarters in a bucket next
machine over.

No, I didn't keep/play them. I got paranoid because of the old (possibily
urban legend) Trop trick of putting 3 x $100 in the bottom of a change
bucket--and then prosecuting as a felony.

So I showed them to a slotnik. She seemed irritated at my "honesty" because
she had to call a supervisor over. The supervisor seemed even more irate,
because she had to report it to security. I gracefully exited before security
came. I didn't want to be "back-roomed" for pulling an "Honest Abe" caper!

Yeah, I think all the factotums and major-domos would have preferred me to
just keep the money and shut up. But who knows? And it's not worth risking
86'ed or prosecuted. (BTW--if you report found money to Metro, they'll give it
to you if it's unclaimed after a timely period. If you report it to a
casino--the casino gets to keep it).

So now I have something else to be paranoid about. Whether I'll get busted
for accepting a bogus $100 bill from the casino. It's not an entirely
irrational fear--the cashier at the Frontier once showed me several bogus bills that
had been passed off to them.

Can anyone tell me where I can buy those magic marker type anti-counterfeit
pens?

Honestly yours,

Rick

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Earlier this year at Texas Station, I found a bucket of nickels next to
a machine and nobody around. I went to the change person and asked them
what to do about it and they told me it was finders keepers. Then she
proceeded to count them and pay me for them. Seems like it is rather
random as to what the casinos do.

Mark

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-----Original Message-----
From: richardrick7@aol.com [mailto:richardri…@…com]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:19 PM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Big verdict in silvermining case

Last year at the Silverton, I found a bunch of quarters in a bucket next

machine over.

No, I didn't keep/play them. I got paranoid because of the old
(possibily
urban legend) Trop trick of putting 3 x $100 in the bottom of a change
bucket--and then prosecuting as a felony.

So I showed them to a slotnik. She seemed irritated at my "honesty"
because
she had to call a supervisor over. The supervisor seemed even more
irate,
because she had to report it to security. I gracefully exited before
security
came. I didn't want to be "back-roomed" for pulling an "Honest Abe"
caper!

Yeah, I think all the factotums and major-domos would have preferred me
to
just keep the money and shut up. But who knows? And it's not worth
risking
86'ed or prosecuted. (BTW--if you report found money to Metro, they'll
give it
to you if it's unclaimed after a timely period. If you report it to a
casino--the casino gets to keep it).

So now I have something else to be paranoid about. Whether I'll get
busted
for accepting a bogus $100 bill from the casino. It's not an entirely
irrational fear--the cashier at the Frontier once showed me several
bogus bills that
had been passed off to them.

Can anyone tell me where I can buy those magic marker type
anti-counterfeit
pens?

Honestly yours,

Rick

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Can anyone tell me where I can buy those magic marker type anti-

counterfeit

pens?

Honestly yours,

Rick

FYI...

The Secret Service says not to ever bother with those pens...the
number of both false positives *and* false negatives (worse because
you accept the bill and later find out it is counterfeit rather than
just rejecting a legit bill) make them pretty much worthless...

Ken

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