Vegas Construction Error

Dec 29, 2008 11:18

In this day and age ... and in the USA to boot, you would not expect for such a mistake to occur ... but it did ( Read more... )

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sabotlours December 29 2008, 20:43:12 UTC
I guess it's better to find out now as opposed to finding out when it collapses. Man, I bet this will throw a huge monkeywrench into the calculations that went into sizing the building in the first place. I smell an unemployed engineer/site inspector.

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gustyfox December 29 2008, 23:14:40 UTC
Is this adjacent to the MGM Grand, and is it located in back where the theme park used to be?

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bangpanther December 31 2008, 05:05:47 UTC
That building is on the other side of the strip from the MGM and down a bit - roughly opposite Planet Hollywood (ex-Aladdin).

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wolfstoy December 30 2008, 05:11:05 UTC
Yikes, how does that get missed! I can't imagine the lawsuits that will be flying over this one.

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a_skunk December 30 2008, 05:17:22 UTC
See in America, they stop building or start over when they find this kind of thing out. In China... they may just add a few extra floors to the original 49 for good measure.

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loranskunky December 30 2008, 06:02:29 UTC
Someone just got fired :P

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