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Swanky new Vegas hotel’s ‘death ray’ proves inconvenient for some guests
Yahoo News Blog ^ | Wed Sep 29, 12:00 pm ET | By Brett Michael Dykes

Posted on 09/29/2010 6:42:18 PM PDT by Redcitizen

And here you thought bedbugs were the biggest source of anxiety for hotel guests.

Yes, guests at Vdara hotel in Las Vegas now have something else to worry about: being burned alive by the glare of the building's "death ray."

What the heck's a "death ray," you ask? Well, first off, it's not as deadly as it sounds, since no one has actually died from it -- at least not yet. But according to the U.K. Daily Mail, the powerful beams of Nevada sunlight reflecting off the glass hotel onto sections of the hotel's swimming pool area have burned some guests and have melted plastic bags.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: construction; lasvegas; napl; solar; zot
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To: Perdogg
This pic should work. ;)
21 posted on 09/29/2010 7:15:22 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Perdogg

more here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2510114/posts


22 posted on 09/29/2010 7:17:55 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: TSgt

Lookslike a stiff wind will blow it away or down.


23 posted on 09/29/2010 7:18:46 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen
powerful beams of Nevada sunlight reflecting off the glass hotel onto sections of the hotel's swimming pool area have burned some guests

Lawsuit coming in 5 . . . . 4 . . . . 3 . . . . 2 . . .

24 posted on 09/29/2010 7:20:36 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: Redcitizen

It is definitely inconvenient to have your skin burned and your hair melted.


25 posted on 09/29/2010 7:20:50 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: Kirkwood

Must be “fire” ants.


26 posted on 09/29/2010 7:23:52 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen
"Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance to find the rebel's hidden fortr..."


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

27 posted on 09/29/2010 7:25:23 PM PDT by The Comedian (Guns, Gold, Food - The guy with the guns ends up with all the gold and food.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Just think of someone’s ruined plastic surgery from the “death ray”.


28 posted on 09/29/2010 7:25:23 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

i Hung out in the sun by the pool for about 45 minutes once in Las Vegas.

I got the worst frigging burn of my life.
Every time i cracked a sweat it was like 10,000 needles going into my skin.

Never again.


29 posted on 09/29/2010 7:30:45 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: The Comedian

I find your lack of faith disturbing.


30 posted on 09/29/2010 7:32:26 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Someone will fall asleep by the pool, get seriously burnt and complain that signs were not posted- thus a lawsuit.


31 posted on 09/29/2010 7:35:49 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: mnehring

LOL - too true!


32 posted on 09/29/2010 7:38:44 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Redcitizen
This bickering is pointless...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

33 posted on 09/29/2010 7:41:01 PM PDT by The Comedian (Guns, Gold, Food - The guy with the guns ends up with all the gold and food.)
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To: Redcitizen

Yeah, but then they have to tax it for the health care bill.


34 posted on 09/29/2010 7:51:47 PM PDT by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
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To: The Comedian

“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”

My favorite movie line. I think of it every time I see Nancy Pelosi and the Congress.


35 posted on 09/29/2010 7:55:24 PM PDT by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
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To: mnehring

” If it is marketed as a tanning feature, Obama will slap a 10% tax on all hotel guests. “

In order to counter objections that this action would reduce business for the hotel, he will tax all non-guests 15%.


36 posted on 09/29/2010 8:13:44 PM PDT by Humble Servant
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To: TSgt

Looks like the bottom of Big Bummer’s tennis shoe about to squash us all.


37 posted on 09/29/2010 8:15:49 PM PDT by Humble Servant
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To: Redcitizen

The path of the “hot zone” changes daily ... :/


38 posted on 09/29/2010 8:30:15 PM PDT by Company Man
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To: Grizzled Bear; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Killing the customers is bad for business.


39 posted on 09/29/2010 8:30:43 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Company Man

Just like cooking a rotiserrie chicken.


40 posted on 09/29/2010 8:41:54 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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