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Man commits suicide by leaping into giant bonfire at Burning Man-style festival in Utah
http://www.nydailynews.com ^ | 07/14/2014 | BY Philip Caulfield

Posted on 07/14/2014 7:25:02 AM PDT by redreno

A man killed himself at Burning Man-style arts festival by leaping into a towering burning art structure in front of hundreds of horrified onlookers, authorities and witnesses said.

On Monday, scores of "burners" - who commune in the Nevada desert every August for Burning Man -were mourning the doomed festivalgoer after he dove into the flames during a moonlit bonfire ritual at the Element 11 fest near Salt Lake City late Saturday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: art; burnday; burningman; drugsarebad; element11; fireart; firesafety; lookatme; napl; radicalexpression; saltlakecity; selfexpression; suicide; toastedhippy; utah
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To: dfwgator

Brilliant!


101 posted on 07/15/2014 5:32:47 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I fell in to a burning ring of fire
I went down down down
and the flames went higher
and it burns burns burns
the ring of fire
the ring of fire


102 posted on 07/15/2014 8:32:51 AM PDT by Clay Moore ("911 is for when the backhoe won't start." JRandomFreeper)
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To: Clay Moore

That would be the ideal music for a Preparation H commercial.


103 posted on 07/15/2014 2:41:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

...it was used for one :P


104 posted on 07/15/2014 4:34:39 PM PDT by Fire_on_High (RIP City of Heroes and Paragon Studios, victim of the Obamaconomy.)
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To: Fire_on_High

Oy.


105 posted on 07/15/2014 8:11:42 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: GBA

you just totally creeped me the heck out.


106 posted on 07/22/2014 8:09:45 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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