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Pretty wild. I heard about it on a podcast and had to look it up. There was discussion about the chips that were thrown... My understanding is any chip or currency found on the floor is casino property, and if you take it, you can and most definitely will be banned. So basically all those chips that were thrown could not be touched.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdog
About 10 years ago, I saw $200 on the floor in a Casino and turned it into Casino Staff. I hoped I would get a cut of the money for turning it in. I didn't get a cut of the money.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLaPiNFuNKPretty wild. I heard about it on a podcast and had to look it up. There was discussion about the chips that were thrown... My understanding is any chip or currency found on the floor is casino property, and if you take it, you can and most definitely will be banned. So basically all those chips that were thrown could not be touched.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdog
A Casino Staff Member told me in private I could have taken that $200 and left the property and came back in about a month with no trouble. Another Casino Staff Member told me that had the person who dropped the $200 reported it missing and they checked the camera and saw that I pocketed it and left, I would have been banned since money found IN a Casino is considered Casino property, but if I found it OUTSIDE the Casino such as the parking lot, that would have been fair game.
A few days later, the Casino Staff Member told me that the person who dropped the $200 reported it missing and I was caught on camera turning in the $200 to Casino Staff. The Casino gave me two T-shirts for turning in the $200.
Casino staff are obligated to return the money to its owner and therefore they don't have the discretion to take a cut of the money as a reward, whether for themselves or for another patron. It is up to the owner of the money to decide if he wants to give the finder(s) a reward.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tasha
I hope you learned a valuable lesson that when on casino property you have zero expectation of privacy or secrecy, and therefore you should never ever pick up money, even to turn it in, because you might be falsely accused of trying to steal it. The best courses of actions are either pretend you don't see it or alert an employee. Certainly do not point it out to another patron unless you know for sure it belongs to them (as in, you saw it fall out of their pocket or bag.)
Congrats on the t-shirts.
I saw some $ in an aisle. I picked it up, then sat around for awhile seeing if someone would return looking for something. Nothing happened after a few minutes so I just left. It is so incredibly unlikely to find its way back to the owner but maybe I was wrong. Ethically leaving it there is only marginally better.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinchingyourballsCasino staff are obligated to return the money to its owner and therefore they don't have the discretion to take a cut of the money as a reward, whether for themselves or for another patron. It is up to the owner of the money to decide if he wants to give the finder(s) a reward.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tasha
I hope you learned a valuable lesson that when on casino property you have zero expectation of privacy or secrecy, and therefore you should never ever pick up money, even to turn it in, because you might be falsely accused of trying to steal it. The best courses of actions are either pretend you don't see it or alert an employee. Certainly do not point it out to another patron unless you know for sure it belongs to them (as in, you saw it fall out of their pocket or bag.)
Congrats on the t-shirts.
Hard to imagine them banning someone for that.
How do they even determine who owns in in lost and found? Guess the % within 10% and the location?
There's always a chance you can get away with it depending on your demeanor and the particular mix of employees on duty at the time, but a patron like Tasha has more eyes on her than most other patrons, and we all know why.Quote:
Originally Posted by accountinquestionI saw some $ in an aisle. I picked it up, then sat around for awhile seeing if someone would return looking for something. Nothing happened after a few minutes so I just left. It is so incredibly unlikely to find its way back to the owner but maybe I was wrong. Ethically leaving it there is only marginally better.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinchingyourballsCasino staff are obligated to return the money to its owner and therefore they don't have the discretion to take a cut of the money as a reward, whether for themselves or for another patron. It is up to the owner of the money to decide if he wants to give the finder(s) a reward.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tasha
I hope you learned a valuable lesson that when on casino property you have zero expectation of privacy or secrecy, and therefore you should never ever pick up money, even to turn it in, because you might be falsely accused of trying to steal it. The best courses of actions are either pretend you don't see it or alert an employee. Certainly do not point it out to another patron unless you know for sure it belongs to them (as in, you saw it fall out of their pocket or bag.)
Congrats on the t-shirts.
Hard to imagine them banning someone for that.
How do they even determine who owns in in lost and found? Guess the % within 10% and the location?