Cited: MSNBC

You can find almost any kind of entertainment you can think of in Las Vegas, with the adult variety being fairly commonplace. It is indeed a grownup Disneyland with everything and anything to help the 18 and over crowd get away from it all and get into it all. And now, part of that entertainment package includes something that you might not consider trying on vacation, operating heavy machinery. With the recession still griping the Las Vegas Strip you can’t help but notice all of the idle construction sites lining the otherwise glistening stretch of dessert roadway. On these construction sites you’ll find idle machinery of all types with funding for the projects drying faster than a puddle in August and the equipment left to bake in the sun; until recently that is.

One savvy business owner looked at the equipment lounging in the sun and realized that here was a way to make some money and put the equipment to work at the same time – let tourists pay to operate the bulldozers, front loaders, cranes, and dump trucks. For a price now you can play with these trucks in your own sandbox and see what it feels like to operate the big rigs. The cost?  Well that also comes with a Las Vegas price tag of $750.

One ten minute lesson in the classroom and guidance from trainers and operators through a headset and you are Fred Flintstone moving boulders and pushing sand. The company behind the idea is called “Dig This” and is the brain-child of its founderr, Ed Mumm, who came up with the idea after renting some heavy equipment to work on his home. He had such a good time playing with the big rigs that he figured that other people would definitely like it too.

Mumm and his staff are the biggest new novelty on the Strip and not surprising to Mumm, the ladies are almost as interested in operating the machinery as the men.

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My take:

Fantastic idea. From the time you’re a little kid you play with trucks in the yard or in a sandbox all the time imagining that you are a construction guy. I bet that a lot of people that have the money will pay for a chance to operate a big machine in a big kids sandbox.

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