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"pretty lame"

Posted At : January 2, 2009 12:49 PM | Posted By : D McKee
Related Categories: Current,The Strip

That's GamingFloor.com Editor Ian Sutton's verdict on this incredibly half-assed fireworks display which ushered in 2009 along the Las Vegas Strip. (Outlying locals casinos, even the upscale ones, were conspicuously AWOL this year.) Although the ground-level launches were mandated for fire-safety reasons, from a distance -- read: Sunrise Mountain -- they had the ironic effect of making several casinos look as though they actually were on fire.

The emerging consensus is that the Strip has not seen such a pathetic ringing in of the New Year since Dec. 31, 1999. On that occasion, a spume of confetti from the Paris-Las Vegas Eiffel Tower was the only "spectacle" to be had. Oh, there were unscheduled pyrotechnics when some misguided soul climbed a telephone pole and got a jolt of electricity that sent him to that big casino in the sky. No fatalities this year, thank Heaven. Just a damp squib of a "celebration" that will do little to lift spirits as we head into what promises to be a difficult year.

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Yeah, I agree. I wasn't there...watched the LIVE
feed on KLAS which has had pretty good coverage
in the past but this year.......NOT.
Their audio was ON while the display ran...you could hear
folks talking.
"where are they?"
"OH!...there's one"
"this isn't working, FORGET IT."
How many years have they been shootin' 'em from the
rooftops? How many FIRES have they had?
As long as it's not a workman with a welding torch
setting the fireworks off, I'd go back to the rooftops.

# Posted By GREGRIO | 1/2/09 4:27 PM

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