August 28, 2007Premature Burn at Black Rock...
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Burning Man Comes Early This Year
First rule of the Burning Man festival: The Man is supposed to burn at the end.
Not this year, though: he caught fire at 2:58 a.m. Pacific time today, four days ahead of schedule.
As the flames climbed up the 40-foot sculpture for 23 minutes, burners, as festival-goers are called, emerged as witnesses.
One of them, Kyle Marx of Eugene, Ore., told The San Francisco Chronicle that the reaction was oddly mixed. “Some people were chanting, ‘Let him burn, let him burn!’ and some were chanting, ‘Save the man, save the man!,’” he said.
A snarky comment from Valleywag seemed apt: “You never saw so may hippies so conflicted.”
Burning Man Comes Early This Year
First rule of the Burning Man festival: The Man is supposed to burn at the end.
Not this year, though: he caught fire at 2:58 a.m. Pacific time today, four days ahead of schedule.
As the flames climbed up the 40-foot sculpture for 23 minutes, burners, as festival-goers are called, emerged as witnesses.
One of them, Kyle Marx of Eugene, Ore., told The San Francisco Chronicle that the reaction was oddly mixed. “Some people were chanting, ‘Let him burn, let him burn!’ and some were chanting, ‘Save the man, save the man!,’” he said.
A snarky comment from Valleywag seemed apt: “You never saw so may hippies so conflicted.”
