LAS VEGAS, June 10 (UPI) -- A man waiting overnight in Las Vegas' McCarran Airport recorded a cell phone video of himself lip-syncing Celine Dion's 1996 single "All By Myself" while he waited alone for his flight. 
 
 Using just his smartphone, a wheelchair and water bottle, Richard Dunn spent the evening shooting himself lip-syncing the ballad around various locations of the nearly deserted airport with no help from other would-be passengers. 
 
 "I had a person behind a ticket counter give me a roll of luggage tape before she left," Dunn said on his Vimeo page. 
 
 "I then used a wheelchair that had a tall pole on the back of it and taped my iPhone to that. Then I would put it on the moving walkway for a dolly shot. I also used the extended handle on my computer bag and taped the iPhone to my handle. I would tuck different stuff under the bag to get the right angle. For the escalator shot I had to sprint up the steps after I got my shot so the computer bag didn't hit the top and fall back down." 
 
 Not content with a single dated pop-culture reference, about four-and-a-half minutes into the video Dunn uses a water bottle to recreate the iconic waterfall silhouette shot from the 1983 film Flashdance. 
 
 Uploaded earlier today, the video already has nearly 500,000 views. ||||| Caught overnight at Las Vegas' McCarran Airport with practically no one else around, Richard Dunn could have taken a cab back to the strip and partied until his flight in the morning. Instead, he whipped out his iPhone and made this gloriously cheesy music video for Celine Dion's 1996 cover of "All By Myself." 
 
 And he really did make it all by himself, with an ingenious repurposing of the airport's escalators and moving walkways. 
 
 "I had a person behind a ticket counter give me a roll of luggage tape before she left. I then used a wheel chair that had a tall pole on the back of it and taped my iPhone to that. Then I would put it on the moving walkway for a dolly shot. I also used the extended handle on my computer bag and taped the iPhone to my handle. I would tuck different stuff under the bag to get the right angle. For the escalator shot I had to sprint up the steps after I got my shot so the computer bag didn't hit the top and fall back down. Quite fun!" 
 
 That's all pretty clever, but it was recreating the Flashdance scene using a water bottle that really put the video over the top. 
 
 Update: Now Celine Dion wants to hang out with him. 
 
 [H/T Reddit] ||||| Police used a unique ploy in their efforts to find the perpetrator behind brutal deaths of two men living on the streets of Las Vegas 
 
 It was 3am at a secluded Las Vegas intersection, a place home to little else except the occasional homeless person sleeping on a bed of gravel. A figure strode back and forth, his attention drawn to a motionless form under some blankets. 
 
 The man, identified by police as Shane Schindler, 30, pulled a hood over his head. He lifted a four-pound hammer with both hands to “generate maximum force”, according to police, and brought it down on the recumbent shape “with the intent to kill”. 
 
 And perhaps Schindler would have killed someone, except that his target was already lifeless: it was a mannequin. Despite this fact, police quickly arrested him. 
 
 The bizarre-sounding ploy was an attempt to snare the perpetrator of two far more heinous acts. 
 
 Two homeless men have been murdered at the same location, surrounded by freeways and far from the neon madness of the Strip, since the beginning of 2017. Daniel Aldape, 46, was found dead on 4 January still wrapped in his blankets, the victim of blunt force trauma. David Dunn, 60, was murdered on the opposite corner on 3 February, also having suffered extreme head trauma. 
 
 “As I say every time a homeless person is murdered, the sidewalk or a soft patch of dirt is no place for a human being to take their last breath,” said a Las Vegas police captain, Andrew Walsh. “We took those crimes very personally.” 
 
 Walsh told the Guardian that his officers placed a human decoy on the ground every night following Dunn’s murder. “We used some tactics you wouldn’t normally see, but we didn’t have a lot of evidence to go by,” he added, noting that there were no witnesses or apparent motive in the recent killings. 
 
 Surveilling the area with hidden cameras and officers, police saw Schindler bludgeon the dummy and immediately arrested him on charges of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. The successful gambit was initiated by police on 22 February, although details have only recently come to light. Homicide detectives are questioning Schindler in relation to the murders, but the operation is ongoing, Walsh said. 
 
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest The intersection where the mannequin was placed and the body of Daniel Aldape was found. Photograph: Dan Hernandez for the Guardian 
 
 Schindler’s public defender said the concealed-weapon charge did not hold water. “Our defense is that carrying a hammer in a bag is not carrying a concealed weapon under the law or all the construction workers and carpenters in this town would be arrested tomorrow,” said Daren Richards. “If they’re going to charge him with something else, let’s see the charges. But as of right now all that other stuff is irrelevant.” 
 
 Though the Las Vegas murders are extreme in their grisliness, such acts directed against homeless people are not uncommon. There were 27 fatal attacks on homeless individuals in 2015, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless, which also documented a total of 1,650 acts of violence against homeless individuals by housed perpetrators between 1999 and 2015, largely by men in their teens and 20s. 
 
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 Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, believes these sorts of crimes are linked to derisive portrayals of homelessness in pop culture and viral videos such as “Bumfights”, in which homeless men are paid to brawl. “They’re attacked not just because of bias but because they’re vulnerable,” he noted. 
 
 The homeless residents of Las Vegas are particularly vulnerable since Nevada is one of four western states, along with California, Hawaii, and Oregon, in which over half the homeless population do not reside in shelters or temporary housing – they live on the streets or in vehicles, parks, tunnels, and other places not fit for humans to stay. 
 
 At the intersection, a homeless woman named Stacie Carney, 40, said the killings had shocked her community. “I was dumbfounded. I couldn’t believe it. It’s scary as shit.” The police operation impressed her. “I think it’s really cool how they set up the dummy.” 
 
 Little is known about the two victims. 
 
 
 
 “They are the lost faces of our community,” said Walsh, the police captain. 
 
 “No one knows who David Dunn and Daniel Aldape were. It’s sad that they’ll live forever in my mind as two homeless guys who were murdered. They were not harming anybody. That’s where they lived – in that neighborhood – and that’s where they died.”
– Richard Dunn recently found himself stuck, apparently all alone, overnight at Las Vegas' McCarran Airport—so, naturally, he created an incredible music video of himself lip-syncing to Celine Dion's cover of "All By Myself" in various locations around the terminal. It even includes a shot of Dunn re-creating the iconic waterfall scene from Flashdance using a chair and a water bottle, UPI notes. Dunn explains, per Gawker, that his tools were his iPhone, a wheelchair with a tall pole on the back, a roll of luggage tape, his own computer bag, and the airport's escalators and moving walkways. He taped the iPhone to the pole or the extended handle of his computer bag, sometimes tucking "different stuff under the bag to get the right angle," he says, and then placed it wherever he needed it to be, including the aforementioned escalators and walkways. "For the escalator shot I had to sprint up the steps after I got my shot so the computer bag didn't hit the top and fall back down," he says. "Quite fun!"