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Skywalk at the Grand Canyon
If you're like me, every time you go to the Grand Canyon, you don't think, wow, what a glorious testament to the passage of time. No, you say to yourself instead: hey, why can't someone come up with some cheesy new tourist attraction here like some kind of glass bottom trail.
And so it goes. A new attraction called the Skywalk is being built over the Grand Canyon. It is horseshoe-shaped (several pirate ship versions with a plank were rejected) and will jut from the canyon's lip to offer a straight-down 4,000 foot, vertigo-inducing view of the canyon floor. How much would such an attraction cost, you might be wondering. A mere $30 million. And just so you libertarian watchdog types don't get your panties in a knot, the Skywalk will be financed by a Las Vegas businessman. So you can also be sure that the cheesiness factor will be really low. In fact, the women wearing pasties and collecting your money are being trained to say "Hello" AND "Thank you!".
Of course, this being America, lots of folks don't like the idea. For example a group of Native American elders is debating whether the Skywalk will disturb sacred ground. What, disturb it more than 3,000,000 over-weight tourists carrying plastic Happy Meal gew gaws already do?
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