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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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posted on
07/14/2014 7:25:02 AM PDT
by
redreno
To: redreno
Build a man a fire and he stays warm for a night
Set a man on fire and he stays warm for the rest of his life.
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:26:04 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: redreno
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:26:38 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: redreno
It wasn’t intended to be a burning man style festival.
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:27:09 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
Got to admire the guy’s commitment.
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:27:36 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: redreno
It’s a wild and wacky, “fundamentally transformed” country out there. You always need to be on your toes and aware of what is going on around you. The “anything goes” lunatics are running the asylum. Kind of like, “Humanoids Gone Wild”.
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:28:07 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
To: redreno
I wonder what he was on? (other than on fire)
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:28:29 AM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(Hillary 2016! Really??? That's Retarded Sir.)
To: redreno
Shades of Edward Woodward.
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:28:52 AM PDT
by
mware
To: Dallas59
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:29:40 AM PDT
by
KSCITYBOY
To: dfwgator
Got to admire the guy’s commitment.And, in the same spirit of insensitivity, his style by diving in headfirst.
To: dfwgator
Got to admire the guy’s commitment.And, in the same spirit of insensitivity, his style by diving in headfirst.
To: Bringbackthedraft
He sure picked an ugly way to go.
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:29:56 AM PDT
by
mware
To: redreno
Try the extra crispy or the colonel’s recipe.
Drug induced (no, marijuana is not a gateway drug... surely not), suicide. Another mental case gone on. Social Darwinism writ large
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:31:07 AM PDT
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: dfwgator
Guess he was all fired up about something...
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:31:36 AM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: redreno
So he took the whole thing literally....
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:31:37 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: redreno
Burning man festival sounds like it might have been inspired by Zozobra.
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:35:55 AM PDT
by
oldbrowser
(We have a rogue government in Washington)
To: redreno
Well someone took the burning man festival literally.
This may start a tradition —
To: redreno
Any questions?
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:37:38 AM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation Continue)
To: redreno
That is the most painful method of them all.
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:38:05 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: redreno
I wonder who he voted for.
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posted on
07/14/2014 7:38:08 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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