How Burning Man Turned Into a Nightmare, Though Organizers Disagree(follow up. Exodus has begun)

townhall.com ^ | 9/5/2023 | Matt Vespa

[rktman]

The Burning Man festival, which attracts 70-80,000 people annually, is over, but not before stranding scores of attendees due to torrential rains that made it impossible to leave the venue. The situation even caught the attention of the Biden White House. Organizers assured the outside world that all was well and appreciated everyone’s concern (via NBC News):

Crazy weather and the inability of those to leave or enter the venue are not uncommon. If it’s not rain, then it’s a dust storm. The COVID pandemic also canceled the event twice. And then, there were these far-left climate protesters who blocked the roads leading to Burning Man, which Nevada Rangers wrecked. They plowed through their makeshift barricades, exiting their trucks, guns drawn to arrest the green warriors. So, yeah, there’s no shortage of entertainment.

[Nervous Tick]

>> This has been all over the news for 3 days now, who cares?

Hey, I care! Because schadenfreude. :-)

[Billthedrill]

Yup. I spent hours reading about the Fyre Festival. There’s a fine line between schadenfreude and sadism...

[Nervous Tick]

>> Burning Man is a free love, drug fueled orgy... The eco hippie stuff is just a cover story.

I believe it. How is trampling the desert ecology and burning stuff “eco”, anyway? Bunch of narcissistic pagans.

[TexasFreeper2009]

someone needs to find some endangered desert worm or something and force them to end this!

[NeverTyranny]

True. I watched a documentary. They have different tents set-up with different “happenings.” One tent was all female. You can imagine what was going on in there. Another tent was group masturbation. Not kidding. It is anything but family oriented. I thought it disgusting. Anything goes there.

[Zathras]

That is pretty much it.

[null and void]

Fairy shrimp?

[justme4now]

By accident, or luck, I was one of those “smelly hippies!”
(long story)😏

Looking back, would I do it over again knowing what I know now at my age?

Most definitely yes!🙂

It was messy yes.
It was muddy and trashy yes.

It was also a memory of one of the greatest days of my life!👍

The majority didn’t go to protest or to support communism as was being said at the time.

Nope, most of us came for the music, the bands and boy did we get those, rain or shine!😁

Somehow this burning man get together doesn’t feel the same!

Looks more like a Communist gathering.

Of course I am OLD now and I just might have turned into my father!😮

[ridesthemiles]

MANY are walking out to the road & seeking rides from others——LEAVING VEHICLES IN THE PLAYA

I wonder WHAT FEES will be charged on THOSE rental cars????

I HOPE it is THOUSANDS.

IF I ran a towing service-—I would NOT accept attempting to tow them out-—wouldn’t RISK my equipment

[ridesthemiles]

The “Rangers” are the Paiute TRIBAL POLICE.

They do NOT SUFFER THE FOOLS.

[cnsmom]

Looks like a job for Czarina Harris. Stop the getaways.

[Scrambler Bob]

On the positive side, it was not dusty.

[ridesthemiles]

Pics on local Reno TV last night showed mud flooded Porta Potty & stated that the “PORTA POTTY’S WERE NOT USABLE”

Imagine the ecological damage from the 60,000 people still there for days who had NO PORTA POTTY===

That alone is beyond disgusting

I hope this shuts it all down FOREVER.

[Beowulf9]

Cronkite’s voice was soft and I remember laying on the rug in the middle of the floor when he came on and being happy to listen to him knowing it would lull me to sleep.

Of course maybe this is not how Cronkite saw his on air presence...

[ridesthemiles]

HOW much damage is happening to the Ecology???

RUTS everywhere & NO WORKING PORTA POTTYS.

CONTAMINATION

[ridesthemiles]

The Porta Potty’s have been flooded with mud & rendered UNUSABLE.

STILL WANNA GO AGAIN???

[GaltAdonis]

"...We weren’t allowed to bother Dad while the news was on..."

.

Yeah. That's the way it was for me when my parents and I were moving
to our new house and had to stay with Grandpop & Grandmom
for that one month during the move.

Our TV was packed up / being moved, and Granddad had only
one TV to watch - and of course Wall Street Week took precedence
over Mr Roger's Neighborhood - so the poor little tyke (me)
had to learn about self-denial early...

But of course, had I learned all about investing starting at age 4, instead of
watching Mr. Rogers, things would probably have turned out differently, eh? (LOL)

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[rktman]

A few days, a backhoe or 3, a couple flat beds........ The towing charges should be pretty large. But, after seeing some of the rigs headed out there, they obviously have more disposable income than I have. 😳👍. Oh, leave no trace. Right?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I betcha those “Counter-Culturists” will be glad to get back to civilization where they can get dry, warm and clean again! Modern civilization is suddenly not so bad after spending a week cut off from civilization.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Woodstock?

I was “vacationing” in SE Asia. Courtesy of the US military.