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 festivals 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 didnt 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 Mans main travel route last week.
The 138-square-mile (359-square-kilometer) wildfire is now 28 percent contained.
Burning Man ends Monday.
Some people just want to see the world burn.
Some people have to be part of the fire.
Another “Hold muh beer” moment brought to you by:
“Pagan Liberals-just because we don’t believe in god, doesn’t mean we aren’t getting ready.”
I wish that I could give you a like on your remarks.
So This is The Guy!
Well,to bad that his Final Act
Will be Mocked and Ridiculed
Even by the False god he chose.
A poem I wrote;
My Laws you have Broken
and My Pardon Rejected.
Your Eternity will be spent
With the god You’ve Selected!
BRB
“Hipsters”? Didn’t they come in right after the Grungers, who came in after the New Wavers and Yuppies, who came in after the Punk Rockers, who came after the Freaks, who came after the Yippies, who came after the Hippies, who came after the Beatniks, who came after the Bohemians, who came after the Great Depression, which came during Prohibition?
Oh, that's funny. I'm always noticing people's teeth, too, including this gentleman's. I get so annoyed when young rock musicians go on about how dreadful bourgeois American prosperity is ... and yet, their parents bought them straight teeth.
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