A wheelchair-user was forced to drag -- literally drag -- himself off an Air Canada flight in Las Vegas when there was no third-party assistance available.
If you think "dragged" is an overstatement, think again: The flight attendant asked him multiple times to disembark; he had to use "the strength of his upper body to pull himself down the airplane aisle, while his wife, held his legs, which cannot move."
Looks like the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnels are going about as well as you'd expect from an Elon project...
"The muck pooling in the tunnel at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip had the consistency of a milkshake and, in some places, sat at least two feet deep. ... At first, it merely felt damp. But in addition to the water, sand and silt—the natural byproducts of any dig—the workers understood that it was full of chemicals known as accelerants.
"The accelerants cure the grout that seals the tunnel’s concrete supports, helping the grout set properly and protecting the work against cracks and other deterioration. They also seriously burn exposed human skin. At the Encore dig site, such burns became almost routine, workers there told Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. An investigation by the state OSHA, which Bloomberg Businessweek has obtained via a freedom of information request, describes workers being scarred permanently on their arms and legs. According to the investigation, at least one employee took a direct hit to the face. In an interview with Businessweek, one of the tunnel workers recalls the feeling of exposure to the chemicals: “You’d be like, ‘Why am I on fire?’”"
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A reunification center for students is being set up at the Las Vegas Convention Center North Hall as they evacuate the UNLV campus, police said at a news conference.
The Convention Center is about 2 1/2 miles north of Beam Hall at UNLV.
"I believed, when I was talking on social media, I was being tracked by America."
In the second episode of Why Do You Hate Me, Marianna Spring speaks to a survivor of a mass shooting in Las Vegas who fell into a world of conspiracy theories.
Marianna Spring's short series 'Why Do You Hate Me?' about her experience of trolling and her investigation of the trolls and conspiracy-theorists she has encountered, is on BBC Sounds now.
While the Sierra Nevada endured blizzard conditions this weekend, a massive windstorm consumed another section of the West, blowing up mountains of dust and knocking out power across Las Vegas.
The popular social media page Las Vegas Locally shared a video where traffic on the Strip came a standstill; huge gusts of wind swirled to conceal the Conrad Las Vegas in a cloud of dust. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#weather#lasvegas
“Two people are dead following a #shooting at a law office in the Summerlin area of #LasVegas Monday morning, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Monday.
The male suspect is also dead after taking his own life, Sheriff Kevin McMahill said during a news conference.“ #GunViolence
#AuroraBorealis visible from #LasVegas? Yes indeed! Okay I may have cheated a little by driving an hour north for darker skies free of traffic but it was totally worth it. Can't wait to catch the #NorthernLights again from further north - it must be an amazing sight.
Also it is great that so many people got a chance to see the #aurora phenomenal tonight thanks to science giving such a great prediction to billions across the planet.
AEW COLLISION Discussion Thread 02/10/24
Saturday night's alright for fighting!...