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.
He was a damned pagan idiot. He only deserves our ridicule.
Yes, that he was ... that he was.
As if the family will “actually” feel each and every one of those condolences?
They should make this a yearly ritual. Find someone to sacrifice to the fire. They can have a lottery.
Always with the Thunderdome. Cant we just get beyond Thunderdome?
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Stop being so mad, Max.
Its all fun and games until someone’s flesh is burned off his body.
Satanic cults always lead to one place, death and destruction.
It’s one of their all-time lows. How they gonna beat that, with yet another “Woodstock”?
He shoulda tried to turn his life around before he got engulfed.
Look! Burning Man !!
About as effective as the Detroit Lions' defensive line........
The Stupid, It Burns
IATBAR
In After The Brown Acid Reference
>>You know, Sheriff, you might want to rethink your idea of what it means to form a “human chain of security officers”
Maybe it’s like the “fence” at Woodstock ‘69
...I thought it was the Lions’ OFFENSIVE line that never protects the QB.
Been a Lions’ fan my whole life but can’t figure out why the Ford family continues to clutch the organization in their death grip since 1958...
Strange lack of compassion coming from someone with an apparent soft spot for a murderous thug like KGB Putin.
Sure, the guy was nuts, or at least was on this day, whether high on drugs or not, and was almost certainly a lefty, but should we actually celebrate his dying in such a horrific way?
Some people are not only sheep, but stupid sheep. They follow any stupid suggestion made by the group leader. Jonestown. Heavens Gate. *slam.
He’s still a guaranteed vote, many times and places without a worry.
Why should he have all the pain? All the bone crushing agony? I want to burn! I want to feel my body trace across the firmament, a glowing ball of flame.....a testament to our godliness and piety!
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What does that mean?
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I dont know, BUT I WANT IT !!!
I’m glad I wasn’t there for the “fun and games”.
Proof of demonic activity at the festival.
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