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Post by sparklybecca on Aug 28, 2007 20:32:57 GMT -5
Ive never been been to Burning Man, and I'm really sad about it. I lived in San Francisco in the 'heyday' of Burning Man and never went cuz of stupidity I guess. I have a bunch of West Coast friends out there now - partying it up I'm sure - even tho the man burnt so early.. ;D
link to article is www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/28/BA2ARQRFI.DTL but i cut it anyhew: Burning Man's icon goes up in flames, 4 days prematurely 11:27 PDT BLACK ROCK DESERT, NEV. - A San Francisco man was arrested on felony arson charges today after the 40-foot-tall "Man" statue whose torching is the annual highlight of the Burning Man festival in Nevada went up in flames four days early, authorities said.
Paul Addis, 35, of San Francisco, was booked into the Pershing County Jail in Nevada on the arson charge and misdemeanor possession of fireworks, Sheriff Ron Skinner said.
Festival organizers, meanwhile, pondered the smoldering remains of the Man and promised to rebuild the big guy in time for Saturday's regularly scheduled burn in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno.
"The Man is still standing, and an assessment is under way to determine the structural integrity of the Man and the Green Man Pavilion," according to a statement posted today at www.burningman.com. "The event will continue as scheduled."
Jamie Thompson, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Land Management, which manages the land where the event is held, said the platform and material around the statue was intact.
Some 40,000 people are expected to gather in the desert by this weekend for Burning Man, and Thompson said about 15,000 revelers are already at the festival site. Many were on the playa early this morning watching the lunar eclipse when the fire ignited at 2:58 a.m., according to Burning Man organizers.
Thousands of festival-goers streamed out onto the playa from the surrounding Black Rock City encampment to view the spectacle, witnesses said. Black Rock City rangers rushed to the scene and doused the conflagration within about 25 minutes.
Reactions ranged from amusement and support to frustration and anger.
"I am disturbed that the Man is burnt. As I looked at it, I was going, 'This can't be happening,' " said Bob Harms of South Lake Tahoe, a seven-time burner.
Kyle Marx of Eugene, Ore., said the fire started from the Man's left leg and spread to engulf nearly his entire body.
"Some people were chanting, 'Let him burn, let him burn!' and some were chanting, 'Save the man, save the man!' " Marx said.
Several people were seen clambering up the tower of logs below the statue's platform base shortly before the fire began.
"Someone went to a great extent to interfere with everyone else's burn. I think, frankly, an attention whore has made a plea for attention," said a Burning Man volunteer named Ranger Sasquatch. "In three days, we will have this rebuilt."
A festival-goer who identified herself as simply Erica said she and her friends were "upset by the fact that someone would take this away from everybody who comes to the event just to see the man burn. To try to sabotage him is completely wrong. We wait all year long. This is an adult's Christmas party."
well asshats move in on all cool things eventually. i still want to make it one day. and im sure for the true burners they will all recall the year the man burned early and they all got together to fix it and make sure it all goes down anyhow. thats what its all about!
Post by cajuninsaudi on Aug 28, 2007 20:53:56 GMT -5
I think it's hilarious the uproar already being raised over this. Yesterdays counterculture figures are todays' authority figures. The early days of the burn were rife with this sort of activity being done to each others art. Now that some of these people are running the show it's no longer funny. I say waaah, they got pranked with style, get over it. Can they charge someone with arson for burning something that was going to be burned anyway.
Had it not been for childcare issues I would have been there this year. Now more than ever I am sorry to have missed it. Between this and the corporate pavilion I think this will be a watershed year on the playa.
I think it's hilarious the uproar already being raised over this. Yesterdays counterculture figures are todays' authority figures. The early days of the burn were rife with this sort of activity being done to each others art. Now that some of these people are running the show it's no longer funny. I say waaah, they got pranked with style, get over it. Can they charge someone with arson for burning something that was going to be burned anyway.
Had it not been for childcare issues I would have been there this year. Now more than ever I am sorry to have missed it. Between this and the corporate pavilion I think this will be a watershed year on the playa.
thats what im saying man. i think its funny. it aint like they burned someones house down or started a forrest fire or something, they burned the fucking burning man at burning man. i like his/their style.
well im sure that when the scheduled burn takes place there are safety precautions in place. and just randomly lighting it on fire could pose a danger to the thousands of people around. but thats about all i got. in the end its not a very big deal and everyone will still have a splendid time
Post by oatmealschnappz on Aug 28, 2007 23:40:05 GMT -5
No. It's not the end of the world or anything but, I think it's ridiculously inexcusable that some light-weight douchesucker did his best to show his ass and totally fvck up a tradition/ceremony/spectacle that MANY people had been planning on and saving-up for all year.
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