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Title: Cleaning the Dubai Tower
Post by: madelaide on January 09, 2010, 15:54

Cleaning the Dubai Tower  :D
Burj Dubai (Burj Khalifa) in HD - Window cleaning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHVQLIyJ5Gg#normal)

Title: Re: Cleaning the Dubai Tower
Post by: vonkara on January 09, 2010, 16:04

  :) The building is really dirty... Being near the desert don't help for sure

Title: Re: Cleaning the Dubai Tower
Post by: Digital66 on January 09, 2010, 16:15

 :D :D :D

Thanks for sharing!

Title: Re: Cleaning the Dubai Tower
Post by: GeoPappas on January 09, 2010, 17:43

It's actually been renamed the Khalifa Tower (after Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan bailed Dubai out by giving them $10 billion).

Title: Re: Cleaning the Dubai Tower
Post by: ethacke on January 09, 2010, 22:39

 :D No thanks! I'm terrified of heights and the idea of falling, so I'd probably have a heart attack. I bet they make a lot of money though!

Title: Re: Cleaning the Dubai Tower
Post by: FD on January 09, 2010, 22:51

Quote from: ethacke on January 09, 2010, 22:39

I bet they make a lot of money though!

Not at all. They are often underpaid Filipino migrant workers there in the Gulf states. On the Bahrein-Manila flight (4 times a year), I heard my share of unpleasant stories.

Title: Re: Cleaning the Dubai Tower
Post by: ichiro17 on January 10, 2010, 00:55

Dubai is sketchy...they essentially use a modern version of slave labour, and they end up living on the outskirts with little money

I wonder who's going to pay for those windows to be cleaned when Dubai run out of the $10 billion they have..

given that the building cost over a billion and is not even 75% full, its definitely fun to watch how this is all going to FAIL