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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.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: construction; lasvegas; napl; solar; zot
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To: Slings and Arrows
Regular tourist, or extra crispy?
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09/30/2010 8:09:25 AM PDT
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Darksheare
(I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
To: Redcitizen
To: martin_fierro
Kitteh sez...
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posted on
09/30/2010 8:36:58 AM PDT
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RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?)...Richard Frank DeCamp, 11/13/34-9/15/10, R.I.P.)
To: MHGinTN
Sandpeople, or worse.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
09/30/2010 8:49:58 AM PDT
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The Comedian
(Guns, Gold, Food - The guy with the guns ends up with all the gold and food.)
To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
"Live" in Vegas...
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posted on
09/30/2010 11:49:42 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
09/30/2010 12:08:03 PM PDT
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Darksheare
(I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
To: TheOldLady
67
posted on
09/30/2010 2:29:47 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Darksheare
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posted on
09/30/2010 2:30:44 PM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
But, thionk of all the business one can garner from the cannibal market?
We can corner and monopolize it!
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posted on
09/30/2010 3:43:29 PM PDT
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Darksheare
(I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
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