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The Venetian Macao Stole My Photo

By Chuckmonster on Thursday, 28th January 2010 4:15am
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If I'm lucky, I'll manage to take one really great photograph each year. The best photo I took in 2007 was outside of the Venetian Macao, on the final day of my 12 day sojourn to uncover the mystery that is Asia's Las Vegas.

A real beaut:


I remember that day like it was yesterday... through the course of magic hour the sky went from typical Macau haze to an unreal pinkish purple. My face kinda went through similar hue adjustment as I really really really really had to pee after walking the circumference of the bathroom free Cotai Strip for five hours.

This photo originally appeared in my mini review of Venetian Macao on MacauTripping, posted in late September 2007.

Venetian Macao

The Venetian Macao likes my photo so much, they've been using as the background of their Twitter account for at least a year now. I've pasted in a screen cap of the source code at the bottom... they didn't even change the file name!

So the question is, should I play nice guy and let this go or try and squeeze some cashish out of whomever it is who is squeezable for cash over there?

Side bet: over/under on how many days it takes for the background to change?



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Comments & Discussion:

 MikeE posted on Thursday, 28th January 2010 - 4:18 am

Squeeze an airfare out of them, promise an updated review, and screw them with a stay at Encore Macau.

 Chuckmonster posted on Thursday, 28th January 2010 - 4:23 am

i like the way you operate Mike.

 BrianFey posted on Thursday, 28th January 2010 - 7:05 am

Very cool pic. That's pretty damn funny.

 doubledown posted on Thursday, 28th January 2010 - 10:12 am

over under should be 9.5 days

 boomer751 posted on Thursday, 28th January 2010 - 6:31 pm

I'll take the over on 9.5 days.
And agree, try squeeze'em for something!

 BigHoss posted on Thursday, 28th January 2010 - 7:46 pm

I think you should sell the photo to Stanley Ho and/or his heirs. If he doesn't bite, maybe you could pawn it off to His Steveness. It seems like he'd enjoy having something that Sheldon already thinks he has.

 Atltrainman posted on Thursday, 28th January 2010 - 7:53 pm

Ask the Wynncore lawyer who wrote you that letter to write one to LV Sands on your behalf. As much as Steve Wynn loves Sheldon Adelson, the Wynn lawyer may do it just for kicks.

posted on Friday, 29th January 2010 - 10:25 am

Get some money or a free trip over there. It's such a rookie move to not even changed the file name. Total fail!

 motoman posted on Wednesday, 3rd February 2010 - 2:16 pm

Agreed. Fail.

Besides Chuck, it's a matter of principal as well as IP rights. Didn't Hunter have to come to an understanding w/ another Vegasy site a few yrs ago?

 motoman posted on Wednesday, 3rd February 2010 - 2:23 pm

Would parchedearth's suggestion work? Buy a couple banana or a few grapes on your way in? Hmm, hadn't though of that.



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