When will people ever learn that they can’t beat the house? Another person tried a robbery at the Cosmopolitan recently, but like so many would-be thieves before him, it didn’t work out the way he had hoped.

Earlier this month, a man approached the cash cage at the popular Las Vegas destination. He handed the attendant a note which implied he had a bomb and would detonate it if he was not given $10,000 in casino chips.

Specifically, the note read: “Give me 10k purple or Boom”. The attendant complied, but managed to hit the panic button to alert police. They arrived shortly after and used the casinos surveillance system to locate Ronald Allison, a 51 year old resident of Las Vegas.

He was arrested in the casino valet area on suspicion of robbery with a deadly weapon and burglary with a firearm. You can read more about the robbery at the Cosmopolitan when you visit the Review-Journal.