As of today, I am a Millionaire

[raisebot]

[Muck]

That's cool. Do they trust that acrylic covering to protect it and just let anyone take a photo? Or is there a guard and queue of people waiting.

[UrAteUp]

Think it is smart to pose with the money after robbing a bank?....

[raisebot]

That's cool. Do they trust that acrylic covering to protect it and just let anyone take a photo? Or is there a guard and queue of people waiting.

usually a guard or 2 and some people waiting in line

UAU- but I wore a disguise

[jimmer]

...... Do they trust that acrylic covering to protect it and just let anyone take a photo?

The acrylic is there to make up the money. There's $999,900 worth of cash and $100 in acrylic coating. (They throw in the 70's penthouse wall paper as a freebie.)

[HalfSugar]

Why does the photo look like it was taken in 1985?

[Muck]

You know the suspicious part of me thinks there’s probably about $20K there and the bulk is just paper or $1 notes.

It’s like the millennium diamonds on display at the dome a few years ago, they replaced them with copies for a short while.

[jimmer]

It’s like the millennium diamonds on display at the dome a few years ago, they replaced them with copies for a short while.

Yes, but only because they knew they were gonna get knicked.

The gang were being monitored for weeks and the whole operation was blown apart just after they crashed their JCB through the main glass wall and sprayed gas everywhere. The police were hiding in wait, jumped out at the last minute and arrested them.

Very Exciting! (In fact probably more exciting than anything else in the Millennium Dome)

[Muck]

It’s like the millennium diamonds on display at the dome a few years ago, they replaced them with copies for a short while.

Yes, but only because they knew they were gonna get knicked.

That’s not what the cops said on the documentary I saw.

The copies weren’t there as part of the sting just the opposite, they thought the gang had an inside person because they expected them to hit the diamonds WHEN they were being exchanged for copies. Just like their previous 2 robberies where they attacked a vehicle using a ramming spike.

[raisebot]

Why does the photo look like it was taken in 1985?

No scanner, and a digi-cam with the LCD display screen broken, so trial and error, and sadly, that was the best I could come up with. I still haven't spent any of my millions on a good camera (yet)!

As far as them being all hundreds, they're not.
Just the one's on the outside being displayed to anyone who looks. I remember reading an article in the local LV newspaper when they first (re)released the display, that the bulk of it is $5's and $1's; unlike the old Benny Binion display where it was all high denomination bills, and rumors abound about shotguns hidden in the walls right behind it attached to a trigger that would blast the fck out of anyone attempting to steal the display. Kinda hard to actually believe if true or not, but you just didn't fck around in old vegas with a mobster's/casino big's money, if you weren't connected in some way.