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Vanoc; (the Vancouver Olympic Committee) has hired a Sikorski S64 off of Erickson Aircrane to fly snow up onto Whistler Mountain and build a track for the Olympic down-hill event.
Boy, is this going to be expensive! #-o
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And I suppose the tax payers are going to pay for this. I'm guessing you wont even get a free ticket to the games.
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Yes that would be our tax money "hard" at work.
Gold medal hockey game tickets are going for upwards of $30,000.

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Whistler Mountain doesn't have enough snow?
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$30 GRAND for a ticket????
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Kabey's Van wrote:Vanoc; (the Vancouver Olympic Committee) has hired a Sikorski S64 off of Erickson Aircrane to fly snow up onto Whistler Mountain and build a track for the Olympic down-hill event.
Boy, is this going to be expensive! #-o
It already has been done.
Everybody else is getting hit with snow except us & were hosting the gymplimpics. #-o
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I think every city that has hosted the olympics has come out upside down on the deal. No snow certainly isn't going to help that at all.
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