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This is a commercialism-era parable inspired by the films Trainspotting and Heist.
Cheers,
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Limon was the quintessential nerd. He was a student at Rice University studying the economics of modern capitalism when he nearly had a nervous breakdown. Limon was from Algeria, but he was a U.S. citizen. After watching the casino-heist re-make film Ocean's Eleven starring George Clooney, Limon got it in his head that the best way to criticize capitalism was to rob Vegas casinos! Thus began the adventure of one of the most eccentric nerds in the history of humankind.
Limon set his sights on the M Resort and Casino, the Venetian, and the Cosmopolitan (three very handsome casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada). All three casinos were managed very well and security and upkeep was top-notch. Limon wanted to rob all three, and he wanted to do it on his own. Each casino had an inner-room vault which housed all the major money the casinos distributed to the players and even employees. Limon decided to rob the casinos during a high-point weekend of March Madness (the annual NCAA men's basketball tournament which drew a great deal of media and fanfare at various recreation-centers --- including casinos!).
Limon was to hit the M Resort and Casino at noon (on Saturday), the Venetian at 4pm, and the Cosmopolitan at 9pm. He dressed up as a representative from Duke University (one of the major teams of March Madness) and pretended to be doing a special 'casino-arena spotlight' special for Duke TV since it was March Madness. He carried a video-camera and requested to be taken to the vault of each casino so he could record the environment of the secured room for his March Madness video and say, "This is the kind of security-thrill that draws so many patrons to the casinos during March Madness!"
Surprisingly enough, Limon was granted access to each vault with his video-camera, since the security officials at each casino thought he really was a representative from Duke University doing a special video presentation of March Madness fanfare and melee in entertainment/recreation centers such as Vegas casinos. While in each vault, Limon robbed money at gunpoint, using a miniature plastic self-assembly pistol he hid in his shoe, and then claimed he was doing this as a Duke PR TrumpUSA protest-stunt. Each casino vault security-team thought Limon was staging some kind of bizarre but incredibly hilarious PR stunt!
When Limon got away from Vegas, he had close to $50 million in three bags which he then stored in three separate vault-boxes. After two months, Limon transferred the funds to a secure Swiss bank, claiming he was the princely heir to a Middle Eastern royal family wishing to remain anonymous. Limon then retired to New Zealand. About fifteen years later, the nerdy Limon wrote a rather funny memoir titled, "Stealing Casinos, Stealing Capitalism." He wrote the memoir under a false pseudonym and had his agent collect the royalties for him!
Limon's 'memoir' became a case-study manual for many FBI trainees learning about casino-security in Vegas, and Limon realized his capitalism-protest 'stunt' really became some kind of landmark 'capitalism analysis.' In other words, ironically, Limon's quest to destroy capitalism with a pedestrian 'prank' resulted in some rather intriguing anti-capitalism insights and critiques, and his memoir was even mentioned on The David Letterman Show. As Limon sat in his New Zealand beach-house, drinking tea and reading his copy of Crime and Punishment, he remarked to himself, "Capitalism is an insane asylum."
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Cheers,
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Limon was the quintessential nerd. He was a student at Rice University studying the economics of modern capitalism when he nearly had a nervous breakdown. Limon was from Algeria, but he was a U.S. citizen. After watching the casino-heist re-make film Ocean's Eleven starring George Clooney, Limon got it in his head that the best way to criticize capitalism was to rob Vegas casinos! Thus began the adventure of one of the most eccentric nerds in the history of humankind.
Limon set his sights on the M Resort and Casino, the Venetian, and the Cosmopolitan (three very handsome casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada). All three casinos were managed very well and security and upkeep was top-notch. Limon wanted to rob all three, and he wanted to do it on his own. Each casino had an inner-room vault which housed all the major money the casinos distributed to the players and even employees. Limon decided to rob the casinos during a high-point weekend of March Madness (the annual NCAA men's basketball tournament which drew a great deal of media and fanfare at various recreation-centers --- including casinos!).
Limon was to hit the M Resort and Casino at noon (on Saturday), the Venetian at 4pm, and the Cosmopolitan at 9pm. He dressed up as a representative from Duke University (one of the major teams of March Madness) and pretended to be doing a special 'casino-arena spotlight' special for Duke TV since it was March Madness. He carried a video-camera and requested to be taken to the vault of each casino so he could record the environment of the secured room for his March Madness video and say, "This is the kind of security-thrill that draws so many patrons to the casinos during March Madness!"
Surprisingly enough, Limon was granted access to each vault with his video-camera, since the security officials at each casino thought he really was a representative from Duke University doing a special video presentation of March Madness fanfare and melee in entertainment/recreation centers such as Vegas casinos. While in each vault, Limon robbed money at gunpoint, using a miniature plastic self-assembly pistol he hid in his shoe, and then claimed he was doing this as a Duke PR TrumpUSA protest-stunt. Each casino vault security-team thought Limon was staging some kind of bizarre but incredibly hilarious PR stunt!
When Limon got away from Vegas, he had close to $50 million in three bags which he then stored in three separate vault-boxes. After two months, Limon transferred the funds to a secure Swiss bank, claiming he was the princely heir to a Middle Eastern royal family wishing to remain anonymous. Limon then retired to New Zealand. About fifteen years later, the nerdy Limon wrote a rather funny memoir titled, "Stealing Casinos, Stealing Capitalism." He wrote the memoir under a false pseudonym and had his agent collect the royalties for him!
Limon's 'memoir' became a case-study manual for many FBI trainees learning about casino-security in Vegas, and Limon realized his capitalism-protest 'stunt' really became some kind of landmark 'capitalism analysis.' In other words, ironically, Limon's quest to destroy capitalism with a pedestrian 'prank' resulted in some rather intriguing anti-capitalism insights and critiques, and his memoir was even mentioned on The David Letterman Show. As Limon sat in his New Zealand beach-house, drinking tea and reading his copy of Crime and Punishment, he remarked to himself, "Capitalism is an insane asylum."
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