It's a terrifying scene that has become all too familiar on the Las Vegas Strip.
Armed men approach a casino cashier cage.
One or two jump over the counter and the cash drawer is emptied quickly. The daring robbers hop back across the counter and disappear into a throng of unsuspecting tourists. Sometimes a casino worker is beaten, other times the robbers turn the Strip into a potentially deadly shooting gallery as they make their escape from pursuing security guards. In most cases, the scenes are recorded on chilling videotape in the casinos' surveillance cameras. Since September 1998, robbers have staged a string of bold casino heists at the Treasure Island, Bellagio, New York-New York, Mandalay Bay, Desert Inn and MGM Grand hotels, among the glitziest and biggest on the Strip.