Originally Posted By DAR No not a new band but actual rays from the sun reflecting from the Vidara hotel. <a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/vdara-visitor---death-ray--scorched-hair-103777559.html" target="_blank">http://www.lvrj.com/news/vdara...559.html</a>
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan In response, House minority leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) raced to the spot with tanning oil and a beach towel.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt ^^^LOL "Taking brief refuge at the pool's bar area, Pintas chatted with employees. He said they chuckled when he described what had happened. "Yes, we call it the death ray," he says they told him. Sometimes it causes disposable drink glasses to melt, a cocktail waitress added." Umm.... if the hotel staff knows about this problem why do they allow people to sunbathe in the area unknowingly putting themselves in danger? That seems rather negligent.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I'm more surprised they don't sell tickets to it as a new attraction. "Sit in the Deadly Vegas Death Ray! Bet on how long competitors can stand the heat!"
Originally Posted By plpeters70 <<Umm.... if the hotel staff knows about this problem why do they allow people to sunbathe in the area unknowingly putting themselves in danger? That seems rather negligent.>> I was wondering about that too. Why don't they just rope off that area or something?
Originally Posted By Mr X ***if the hotel staff knows about this problem why do they allow people to sunbathe in the area unknowingly putting themselves in danger?*** What danger? Slightly singed hair? Geez, we'd better contact all the restaurants that use candles on the tables to warn them of this potential "danger"!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "What danger? Slightly singed hair?" "Slightly" tinged hair? Did you read the article X? The temperatures in the 10'x15' zone are estimated to range between 120 and 160 degrees. That sounds pretty unsafe to me.
Originally Posted By markymouse It would be hard to rope off, since the spot is constantly moving as the sun moves across the sky, if I understood it correctly.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>The temperatures in the 10'x15' zone are estimated to range between 120 and 160 degrees.<< Still, it's 10° lower than George Hamilton's tanning bed.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan And when you think of all the plastic things that could melt in Vegas... half the cocktail waitresses could be lost!
Originally Posted By Mr X ***"What danger? Slightly singed hair?" "Slightly" tinged hair? Did you read the article X?*** Yes. Yes, I did. From the article... "Then he smelled an odor, and realized it was coming from his head, where a bit of hair had been scorched" Doesn't sound so bad to me. I've had sunburns that were far worse.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan If it had been Wayne Newton's hair, it could have turned into an inferno.
Originally Posted By tashajilek ""Slightly" tinged hair? Did you read the article X? The temperatures in the 10'x15' zone are estimated to range between 120 and 160 degrees. That sounds pretty unsafe to me." If someone as fair as i were to be in the hot spot i would surely have the worst burn of my life. Burns can = Skin cancer down the road, so yea pretty serious.
