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Wanna Play Construction Worker? Well, Dig This...

All work and no play? Take a trip to Dig This in Las Vegas, a 5-acre sandbox for adults to test out their backhoe skills and feel like a kid again.

“I’ve been wanting to do this stuff since I was three or four years old!” said Adam Cason, who was visiting from San Antonio, Texas. “I’m finally getting to it on my 25th birthday, so I loved it.”

According to Dig This creator Ed Mumm, the larger-than-life empty lot of sand and dirt, which once served as the location of a popular amusement park in Las Vegas, provided the perfect backdrop for the launch of Dig This in May. And because it was an amusement park, folks can expect to dig the unexpected.

"I was hoping that wasn't a gas line for anything because I didn't want to blow up anything," laughed Jim Kyles, a native of Buffalo visiting the site who dug up a pipe. "It was a big pipe, so I ripped it out and started having some fun."

Mumm, a New Zealand native whose father worked as a subcontractor, first used an excavator to build his house in Steamboat Springs, Colorado in 2005 and felt the need to share the experience with other grown-up kids by opening his first version of Dig This in Colorado that same year.

"After about two or three hours on a 20-ton excavator, I soon realized if I was having this much fun, imagine the amount of people who can't get this experience," said Mumm.

After a two-year run in Colorado, the business went on hiatus and reopened in Las Vegas this past May with nearly $400,000 worth of excavators and bulldozers. Mumm is happy with his decision to move to Vegas and it's paying off so far. To date, Dig This is averaging 30 to 40 customers a week at a rate of $200 to $750 per package. The cheapest package, the “Mini Dig,” will cost you $210 and includes an hour and a half of excavating. The most expensive package, “The Mega Dig,” runs for $750 and allows customers to take part in both the excavator and bulldozer experiences.

The Excavator: The Audacity of The U.S. Government: Waging Wars ...

The U.S. government's public statements since the moment 9/11 happened have come straight out of Monty Python. 19 guys in a cave from the mountains of Afghanistan bringing down three towers with two airplanes in the middle of the biggest city of the biggest empire since Rome? It is impossible. It is science fiction. Dr. Steve Pieczenik hit the nail on the head: Washington is the theatre of the absurd. Watch the videos below about the U.S. government's war on truth, reason and common sense: Judge Napolitano speaking with Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer; former National Security Council member Hillary Mann Leverett talking about the plot on Al Jazeera and Press TV; Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks giving his take; and Alex Jones explaining the history of Washington's fake terror plots and Eric Holder arming Mexican drug cartels via the fast and furious program. Well, Gulf students in Texas area have come up with an important detail about the accused. Apparently, he was an opponent of the Iranian regime . So wait: we have a new important detail. The Iranian government contacted an opponent of the regime to undertake an assassination and bombing plot in the US. So he went and sought the help of drug gangs in Mexico. OK. It is now making more sense. "Anyone who shirks the labors, sacrifices, and dangers that his people must undergo is a coward. But no less a coward and traitor is the man who betrays the principles of thought to material interests, who, for example, is willing to let the holders of power decide how much is two times two. To sacrifice intellectual integrity, love of truth, the laws and methods of thought to any other interest, even that of the fatherland, is treason. When in the battle of interests and slogans the truth, like the individual, is in danger of being devalued, disfigured, and trampled under foot, our one duty is to resist and to save the truth--or rather, the striving for truth--for that is our highest article of faith.

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