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Structure Collapse Reported at Fontainebleau (LAS VEGAS)
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Posted on 08/06/2007 8:10:26 PM PDT by paulat
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:10:27 PM PDT
by
paulat
To: paulat
What is this Eastern Europe???? Middle East??? No, corruption, buying off the inspectors.
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:11:31 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: paulat
Somebody didn’t get to wet their beak?
This is Las Vegas after all.
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:12:32 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: yldstrk
I am so surprised that this just hit Drudge...I would have thought LVNV news would be hot.
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:13:04 PM PDT
by
paulat
(I'd rather spend my vote on someone who CAN ACTUALLY BE ELECTED)
To: paulat
the whole city, along with new orleans,
could collapse
as far as i’m concerned.
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:19:18 PM PDT
by
ken21
(28 yrs + 2 families = banana republic junta. si.)
To: yldstrk
Could be the concrete mix.
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:19:22 PM PDT
by
dc27
To: paulat
Hmmm.... awfully close to shower time.
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:20:43 PM PDT
by
Tuxedo
(This Species Has Amused Itself To Death)
To: dc27
Could be the concrete mix.But cement is more expensive than sand and water.
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:23:57 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: paulat
Did ICE pay a visit recently?
Or are they waiting untill all the dust settles?
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:33:45 PM PDT
by
sarasmom
(Hunter-Thompson 2008 . It satisfies the senses on multidimensional levels .)
To: paulat
Somebody paid off Senator Reids kids for the contracts?
To: paulat
Structure Collapse Reported at Fontainebleau (LAS VEGAS)
Hmmm...I guess not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:40:38 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: lexington minuteman 1775
Somebody paid off Senator Reids kids for the contracts? ...I would LOVE to know if there is a Dingy Harry connex....
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:40:51 PM PDT
by
paulat
(I'd rather spend my vote on someone who CAN ACTUALLY BE ELECTED)
To: paulat
“a pre-cast twin tee...collapsed”
I assume this is a steel structure of some sort. I wonder where it was made? China, perhaps?
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:51:59 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Mecca delenda est.)
To: yldstrk
What is this Eastern Europe???? Middle East??? No, corruption, buying off the inspectors. Las Vegas is built like a giant movie set. Over the last few years a whole generation of older resorts have been imploded to make way for all this new construction. What surprises everyone whenever one of these places is blown up is how easily they collapse. They were built with substandard concrete supported by a lot fewer beams than the code calls for.
In 1980, an electrical wire sparked on the casino floor of the MGM Grand. Eighty-four people died and 785 were injured. There are a lot of stories like this waiting to happen in Vegas.
To: Hugin
Almost certainly a pre-cast reinforced concrete structural element.
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posted on
08/06/2007 8:53:53 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: BlazingArizona
They were built with substandard concrete supported by a lot fewer beams than the code calls for. Not true. I recently watched a documentery about the company that does pretty much all those demolitions. Some of those casinos are overbuilt, with two or three times the reinforcement in the concrete as a normal buildings. Those guys make it look easy, but it takes weeks of work and exact planning and charge placement to make it happen.
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posted on
08/06/2007 9:02:05 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Mecca delenda est.)
To: paulat
Is this going to be Bush’s fault too?
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posted on
08/06/2007 9:03:19 PM PDT
by
The South Texan
(The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
To: BlazingArizona
Las Vegas is built like a giant movie set. Over the last few years a whole generation of older resorts have been imploded to make way for all this new construction. What surprises everyone whenever one of these places is blown up is how easily they collapse. They were built with substandard concrete supported by a lot fewer beams than the code calls for.Look who runs the place. We're not talking Sir Christopher Wren here.
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posted on
08/06/2007 9:28:32 PM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: paulat
Saving on costs without regard to safety. If they would quit stealing the money for bribes and payoffs; maybe they could get quality materials and good labour.
To: paulat
Bush spends billions on the Iraq war, and nothing on casinos.
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:00:44 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(A man who will not defend himself does not deserve to be defended by others.)
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