DENMARK’S LEGOLAND BURNS

A fire believed to have been caused by a short circuit has destroyed part of Miniland, a section of the Legoland theme park in western Denmark with replicas of famous buildings made of Lego bricks. The fire started around 4 a.m. Wednesday in one of the little electric cars that runs on rails, which was being recharged overnight. It was quickly extinguished, but a number of the replica buildings melted. Reports weren’t specific, but that area of the park has Lego models of the Kennedy Space Center, the canals in Amsterdam, the Palace of Versailles and the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai.
* The melted section of Miniland has been renamed Li’l Nuclear Bombsite Land.
* Approximately 2,000 Lego bricks were lost, so the damage was around 80 million dollars.
* Responding firefighters were heard to say, “Oo! Ow! Ow! Oooch! Ouch!”
* They say the owner of the park just fell to pieces when they told him.
* I keep telling them, make those little bricks out of steel, not plastic.