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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMy wife is in Reno this weekend and had a very exciting day.
She's there with her daughter and grandaughter. It's the grandaughter's birthday so they are having a girl's weekend. Grandaughter is 33 years old.
They were on the Casino floor and decided to go have some dinner. So the daughter cashes out of the machine she is playing and gets a cash slip for about $100. Just then some guy comes running past them and grabs the slip and runs. The grandaughter, who is a big girl, chases the guy screaming all the way into the parking lot but he gets away.
They called the police who showed up quickly and took their description of the guy. He was wearing some distinctly marked sports team clothing and three of them saw him and remembered everything he was wearing. The cops found him walking about two blocks away and they arrested him. He still had the cash slip on him and the daughter had remembered the exact amount it was for.
He's in jail tonight and the Casino replaced the cash slip after examining the machine and looking at surveilance camera footage. They voided the one he took and it is now evidence. We've been to Reno dozens of times and nothing like this has ever happened to us. Everyone is okay and they are up in their room watching a movie. Going to the spa tomorrow at another Casino.
crud
(614 posts)cool story, glad it turned out okay!
crud
(614 posts)cool story, glad it turned out okay!
skylucy
(3,737 posts)My wife is a retired RN and her daughter is an RN. They don't scare easy. I won't go into too much physical detail, but like I said, the granddaughter is a big girl and the thief is lucky she didn't catch him.