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.
he was no dragon.
"Aaron Joel Mitchell, a 41 year-old man has been identified as the reveler who ran into the Burning Man effigy Saturday night leading to his death. ...McAlester, Oklahoma, born native who’d taken up residence in Switzerland..."
https://scallywagandvagabond.com/2017/09/aaron-joel-mitchell-suicide-death-burning-man-effigy/
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You know, Sheriff, you might want to rethink your idea of what it means to form a "human chain of security officers". Looks like a big time FAIL.
This kind of symbol-minded extremism is a huge waste of time and energy. The quality of meaning it derives is less than average, bordering on primitive, and that is not a good thing. BAN BURNING MAN!
I think there’s something wrong with wasting officers’ time trying to stop people from jumping in a fire. If people want to jump in a fire, cebu.
“.Attendees have tried to run into the flames as a symbol of rebirth.””
The near complete deletion of Christianity and Western culture from our daily lives and education system has resulted in strange consequences. People have a need for religion, tradition and values. Having removed all of those things, established and refined over centuries, people desperately search for something to give their lives meaning and value. Hence, the proliferation of New Age garbage.
Whatever he was, I'd bet my last nickle he wasn't a Trump supporter.
I’m glad I didn’t know him.
“the man’s mother Johnnye Mitchell via the Reno Gazette-Journal, ‘He’s 41, but they are always your baby.’
Adding, ‘He was loving and a nice person’.
Mitchell’s mother said that her son ‘liked hiking and outdoors, running.’
At the time of his death, the married man without children worked in construction.”
https://scallywagandvagabond.com/2017/09/aaron-joel-mitchell-suicide-death-burning-man-effigy/
First thing, the horror of that level of burn, that is a rescue one slow walks to.
And the ones who want to jump in? I am no longer sure that it is a good thing to stop them using public resources.
Leftists? I have grown cold.
BAN BURNING MAN!
No, let it implode. It is a symbol of their degeneracy and everything bad to our own.
Scene from Monty Python’s Jabberwocky
https://youtu.be/8apNuRgWFWo
Thunderdome......ha.....
I’m going to get a sandwich .... and we don’t need another hero.
Condolences?
Another removed from the gene pool. When will those people learn, “don’t play with fire!”.
Condolences to his family.
That does not mean I am not above seeing the - well poetic nature of this event.
In the end you have to be amazed at a 41 year old male that is that messed up.
.....beyond Thunderdome...
Maybe the guy that ran into the fire was Melt Gibson...
Burning Man ends Monday.
Good looking guy.....beautiful cheekbones....strong teeth....tall......he had a lot of aesthetics going for him......
....except maybe too much acid or a hollow soul.....and the Devil’s lure to throw himself into the fire
Well he was a crazy donkey, indeed.... now a very dead donkey.
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