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Newest NY casino has 2K slots, 77 tables, 1 cemetery

TYRE, N.Y.

New York state’s newest casino has 2,000 slot machines, 77 table games, 12 poker tables, a food court, a concert venue – and a cemetery.

The Las Vegas-style del Lago Resort and Casino opened last week in the Cayuga County town of Tyre. The developer, Rochester-based Wilmorite, had to build the casino’s parking lot around an old family cemetery containing the graves of people who farmed the surrounding land generations ago.

People who live nearby told WSTM-TV in Syracuse the decedents of those buried in the cemetery didn’t want them disturbed during construction.

Town officials say the casino plans to build a fence around the cemetery and make it accessible to the families whose loved-ones are buried there.

Seeking attention, Lithuania builds virtual Tesla factory

VILNIUS, Lithuania

Lithuanians badly want Tesla Motors to build its next giant factory on their soil, so to grab the attention of the California tech company they built a virtual version of a facility inside the “Minecraft” video game.

Vladas Lasas, who was behind the project, says they wanted to send a message to Tesla CEO Elon Musk that Lithuania “has plenty of skillful” people as well as a perfect factory site. He said Saturday that 41 computer geeks spent two days building the virtual factory in Kruonis in central Lithuania near a hydroelectric plant and two airports.

Tesla tweeted Friday: “Lithuania knows the way to our heart.”

No date has been set for the announcement of where the factory – estimated to cost $5.4 billion – will be built.

Texas boy lifts toilet lid, finds snake hiding inside

ABILENE, Texas

Snake-removal expert Nathan Hawkins said Friday that he was called to a home near Abilene last month after a boy lifted the toilet lid and was surprised to find an adult rattlesnake poking out of the water with most of its body extended down into the drain.

Hawkins says the snake found its way into the house’s plumbing through an exposed pipe. The boy’s mother decapitated the snake, and Hawkins removed 23 others that he found nesting in the storm cellar and beneath the home.

Hawkins posted details of the account to his company’s Facebook page, and the post has been shared thousands of times.

Associated Press