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Man Who Ran Into Burning Man Festival Fire Dies
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| Sept. 3 2017
Posted on 09/04/2017 3:26:36 AM PDT by equaviator
A Nevada sheriff says the man who ran into the flames at the Burning Man festival’s signature burning ceremony has died.
Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen says the man ran through a human-chain of security officers at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday (Sept. 2) during the Man Burn event at the counter-culture festival.
The sheriff says the man was rescued by firefighters and later died at the UC Davis hospital burn center in California.
About 70,000 people are attending the art and music celebration in the Black Rock Desert, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) north of Reno.
The nine-day event culminates with the burning of a towering 40-foot effigy made of wood. Attendees have tried to run into the flames as a symbol of rebirth.
Festival organizers didn’t immediately respond when asked for comment.
The nine-day festival in northern Nevada was briefly hampered when a lightning-sparked wildfire temporarily shut down Burning Man’s main travel route last week.
The 138-square-mile (359-square-kilometer) wildfire is now 28 percent contained.
Burning Man ends Monday.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: burningman; darwinawards; drugsarebadmkay; lemmings; paganelites
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Was it a grand symbolic gesture with the intention being to make a political statement to all of mankind or just a seemingly ironic act of insanity?
To: equaviator
Don’t eat the brown acid.
To: equaviator
Kind of old to start smoking.
To: equaviator
Joke around Reno:
Where is Black Rock City?
Answer: Go past Thunderdome and make a left.
Condolences to the family and friends.
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posted on
09/04/2017 3:31:43 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
To: mad_as_he$$
Always with the Thunderdome. Can’t we just get beyond Thunderdome?
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posted on
09/04/2017 3:34:09 AM PDT
by
LukeL
To: circlecity
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posted on
09/04/2017 3:34:33 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
To: equaviator
To: Salamander; JoeProBono; 50mm
Garth tried to warn them...
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posted on
09/04/2017 3:37:20 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: LukeL
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posted on
09/04/2017 3:38:25 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
To: equaviator
Art and music festival? What benign descriptors.
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posted on
09/04/2017 3:42:23 AM PDT
by
Freee-dame
(Best election ever.)
To: equaviator
Was it a grand symbolic gesture with the intention being to make a political statement to all of mankind or just a seemingly ironic act of insanity?Darwin Award winner!
To: Reno89519
Poor guy probably didn't know that it had already been done by a Buddhist monk in 1963.
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posted on
09/04/2017 3:45:13 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: equaviator
Democrat voter rolls will not be affected.
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posted on
09/04/2017 3:47:41 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
To: equaviator
Twin Peaks, firewalk with me?
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posted on
09/04/2017 4:08:01 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: equaviator
He looks like a white guy with dreadlocks. Hey man, he was just conjoining with nature dude.
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posted on
09/04/2017 4:10:25 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
To: equaviator
Well I guess he had a "burning desire" to go in public and he got his wish :-(
Sad but the Devils in his soul drove him to suicide.
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posted on
09/04/2017 4:10:35 AM PDT
by
prophetic
(0Bama = 1 illegal president = 32 illegal, unconstitutional & unnecessary CZARS to do his job!!)
To: Freee-dame
Now that they have their martyr, they can start calling it something SO much more ‘meaningful’.
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posted on
09/04/2017 4:11:34 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: equaviator
Setting a fine example for all registered Democrats
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posted on
09/04/2017 4:12:00 AM PDT
by
rrrod
(just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
To: equaviator
This is interesting.........
“Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen says the man ran through a human-chain of security officers at about 10:30 p.m......Attendees have tried to run into the flames as a symbol of rebirth.”
So this isn’t the first time. And we allow them to vote.
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posted on
09/04/2017 4:12:46 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
To: equaviator
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
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posted on
09/04/2017 4:15:12 AM PDT
by
Maskot
(Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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