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.
I know some folks will go to great lengths to get out of a bad marriage, but geez!
Maybe he wanted to imitate Latimer and it was a bag of gunpowder. Of course, being a liberal, he wouldn’t have known the difference between black powder and smokeless, so it didn’t do him any good.
Drugs.
Oh yeah...Altamont. I dunno, that was no suicide. If it was, it was “suicide by Hell’s Angels” (as opposed to “suicide by cop”).
Bad Day At Black Rock.
Go pound sand moron. You never served, but you are the biggest cold warrior of all.
The guy was an idiot. I don’t have any compassion for him. He got exactly what he wanted.
Ok, im soooo sorry the man who deliberately fought his way through security and ran into a burning pagan idol to “rebirth” himself got burned.
Feel better?
I could almost begin to understand why he did what he did if it was because he had just found out that Walter Becker had died.
Paging Moloch...
What a waste of money by his parents to give him a perfect set of choppers while he was growing up.Good dental records though for ID purposes.
Paris Hilton always attends Burning man.
I’ll bet she said “That’s hot.”
“At the time of his death, the married man without children worked in construction.”
Of what? Tinkertoys? Took time off work to attend that desert insane asylum?
Not so fast, he's dead isn't he?
He'll vote RAT.
Now known as Burnt Man Festival...
Insanity either way.
Mental health and self medicating. Sad
Burnt Weenie Manwich Man
Did the hippie dreadlocks gave it away?
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