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Capt Worley PE

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Give tourists one of the most original outings ever: letting them get behind the wheel of heavy machinery including bulldozers and excavators so they can play construction worker.
Moving sand and rock not far from the Trump International Hotel and Palace Station casino isn't for penny-slot players; it starts at $210 for an hour and a half on one machine and climbs up to $750 for hours of play on a bulldozer and an excavator.


Mumm said he started Dig This after renting an excavator while building a house. "I thought to myself: 'If I'm having this much fun, imagine the amount of people that don't get to do this stuff that would love to do this,' " he said, according to the AP. Dig This is billed as "America's first and only heavy equipment playground."
One of the more unusual offerings is a "Dig and Destroy" package ($525).

Participants work the heavy machinery, then are taken to a nearby shooting range to run through what's billed as "50 rounds of ammo-KRISS Super V (fully automatic Sub-Machine Gun); 10 rounds of ammo- Saiga 12 (short barrel Semi-Automatic shot gun); 20 rounds of ammo-M60 (fully automatic machine gun). Less expensive scoop-and-shoot packages are available.
http://www.wltx.com/news/watercooler/artic...gas-Attractions

Might be more fun than hookers and blow!

 
My uncle had it all wrong. Instead of having free labor (me) to mow, rake, and bale hay, he should have charged some city dude fifty bucks an hour for the privilege of driving an old Allis Chalmers around the farm.

 
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