I'm a Burner.

The Burner community is in shock over this. The person did die today. As RNshooter noted, Rangers and ESD will carry the scars from this for a very long time. I've done inside perimeter duty at Regional Burns. While there is a perimeter and people set up to stop things like this from happening, it's nearly impossible to completely prevent it. Especially after the effigy is down and perimeter is dropped. A similar event occurred at a Regional Burn in Utah a couple years ago. We had someone rush the burning effigy at our Regional Burn but they were tackled and stopped well short of the effigy.

And for those who have commented on leftist, hippy, druggies, you know little to nothing of what constitutes the Burning Man Community. Most Burners I know are successful professionals and I'd say most would have IQ's over 130. We despise hippies and sparkle ponies, people who come to a Burn unprepared and expect others to take care of them while they are there. Certainly there is drug and alcohol use and abuse at any Burn. But there are lots of us who party no more there than on any weekend.

It's a sad day in BRC and throughout the world wide Burner community.

What a flaming idiot.

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What a flaming idiot.

^^^Rim shot please!!

No offense meant Brad, I just know several who frequent that gathering and they are exactly as I described.

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Most Burners I know are successful professionals and I'd say most would have IQ's over 130

I suspect we can all agree these aren't the people so intent on jumping into a fire that you have to plan means to prevent that!

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Most Burners I know are successful professionals and I'd say most would have IQ's over 130

I suspect we can all agree these aren't the people so intent on jumping into a fire that you have to plan means to prevent that!

"Pictures taken by participants show the man racing toward the flames, which were hot enough to scorch arm hairs from 100 feet away".



https://www.usatoday.com/story...nt-center/629858001/

He's toast.

My take on this?

A. A person is his own responsibility. If you take drugs, you may run into fire, or jump of a cliff.

B. Any event that needs a cordon of security and firefighters to keep people like point (A) from whatever should not be held.

C. If you believe that jumping into that cauldron will result in a new life , please tell us about your new life asap.


D. If events like (B) are held, no security , firefighters, EMT's should be there. Let them have at it.

Friggin hot head!

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Originally posted by Appliance Brad:
I'm a Burner.

The Burner community is in shock over this. The person did die today. As RNshooter noted, Rangers and ESD will carry the scars from this for a very long time. I've done inside perimeter duty at Regional Burns. While there is a perimeter and people set up to stop things like this from happening, it's nearly impossible to completely prevent it. Especially after the effigy is down and perimeter is dropped. A similar event occurred at a Regional Burn in Utah a couple years ago. We had someone rush the burning effigy at our Regional Burn but they were tackled and stopped well short of the effigy.

And for those who have commented on leftist, hippy, druggies, you know little to nothing of what constitutes the Burning Man Community. Most Burners I know are successful professionals and I'd say most would have IQ's over 130. We despise hippies and sparkle ponies, people who come to a Burn unprepared and expect others to take care of them while they are there. Certainly there is drug and alcohol use and abuse at any Burn. But there are lots of us who party no more there than on any weekend.

It's a sad day in BRC and throughout the world wide Burner community.

best post in the thread

The man has been identified.

Rare, Please.

Is this a true suicide or something caused by drug/alcohol stupidity?

I cant seen a sane person of good mind thinking they could actually run through that inferno.

Weird people do weird things. Liberty provides the opportunity. I see this event as an expression of liberty an a rejection of confining standards. It was a matter of time before something like this happened. It was a selfish attention whore act. Attention whoring seems to be sweeping our national culture and leaving destruction and oppression in its wake.

Edit: I'm a Burner and a Ranger (since 2000).


In the early days, Burning Man had a very libertarian feel. It was a magnet for people who did what they pleased and were happy to let others do the same. It attracted machine gun nuts as well as nudists. And they played well together, with some interesting results. You're welcome, for the mental image you just had.
The event has grown and anything that goes from 2,000 to 70,000 participants, with coverage by Maxim and GQ magazines, will attract its share of douchebags. And some amazing people, as well.

This guy decided to have his ultimate "Look at me!!!" moment at the expense of all of them.

What an asshole.

Bruce

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you cannot make anything or any even idiot proof - there will always be a better idiot

this event seems to have been run quite well, except for the final idiot - should be no reflection on the organization - willing to be the idiot would have run into a burning house if one was near by

hold the idiot responsible for his actions, not the organization

I have always been intrigued by Burning Man. One day, I will go.

Very sad.

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Originally posted by RNshooter:
Edit: I'm a Burner and a Ranger (since 2000).


In the early days, Burning Man had a very libertarian feel. It was a magnet for people who did what they pleased and were happy to let others do the same. It attracted machine gun nuts as well as nudists. And they played well together, with some interesting results. You're welcome, for the mental image you just had.
The event has grown and anything that goes from 2,000 to 70,000 participants, with coverage by Maxim and GQ magazines, will attract it share of douchebags. And some amazing people, as well.

This guy decided to have his ultimate "Look at me!!!" moment at the expense of all of them.

What an asshole.

Bruce

I had an opportunity to go back in the 90's...I passed, should've went. Those who went, were very much libertarians. At the time, it was full-blown self-sufficiency; firearms, explosives, drugs, road warrior vehicles, lots of music acts, hedonism, sculptures contrasted on the playa giving any photographer an orgy of palletes. Today, some of that still exits. The vast majority of attendees are professional upper-middle class from SF Bay Area, LA and Seattle; you could and do have full-blown TED talks out there. I recall working in SF's Mission District and the week prior, all these luxury tour buses would be double parked, picking up folks who chartered them, it was ridiculous. As a lifelong backpacker and climber, some of the contraptions people had built for living in the desert were pretty ingenious, others were simply headshaking crap. The stories they all came back with was endless, social morays and hang-ups were left back in civilization and temporarily new people emerged. Today, there's a hospital/med-area, emergency services, 'security teams' patrolling along with the local sheriff dept, even AAA assigns a handful of tow-trucks to deal with dead batteries and vehicles. It's almost like...civilization.

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Edit: I'm a Burner and a Ranger (since 2000).

Knew I couldn't be the only one here. Thanks for your work with Khaki. I do ESD.

Hope to see you in the dust in 2018.

I'm bi-departmental

Bruce