Burning Man(slaughter)

I can't think of a worse Hell than Burning Man

R1 - Maybe getting murdered at Burning Man?

How about unexpectedly becoming a parent at Burning Man, r1?

[QUOTE]In another strange twist, last week, a baby named Aurora was born at the festival to parents who had no idea they were expecting.

There's always drama at BM-monsoon rains, mud, wind storms, deaths, and now a murder. And this year the Orgy Dome was closed. I've never understood the appeal, but then again I'm not a tightly wound corporate type, desperate to do drugs and hook up with randos for a week in the desert.

The initialism “BM” sounds appropriate in more ways than one.

I have a lot of sympathy for the detectives looking in this case. Every single person within a ten mile radius would have criminal records, mental illness, personality disorders and addiction issues.

There is going to be a LOT of DNA at that crime scene. If you get what I mean . . .

Are you supposed to pack your shit out? Isn't that the Burning Man way?

R6 we can tell has no clue about Burning Man, most of the people there make a lot of money. Low lifts with criminal records or mental illness usually cant afford a ticket ranging from $550 to $3,000 for a weekend.

[quote]Are you supposed to pack your shit out? Isn't that the Burning Man way?

Yes, how inconsiderate of the killer to ignore the 10 Principles of the Playa!

[quote]8. Leaving No Trace. Burning Man without a doubt respects the environment and is committed to leaving no physical trace of any activities wherever they gather. Burners clean up after themselves and even strive to leave such places in a better state.

He/she should have collected and removed the bloodied sand along with the corpse!

Any word why they suspect murder?

How many loads leaked out of his corpse?

I was a Burner for six years… 2010 to 2015. So many amazing memories.

Perusing the Burning Man community Reddit on this one.. apparently the police were asking everyone in the area if they noticed a stranger walking around with an openly exposed Bowie knife. Yikes.

There’s never been a murder there before, over the years. OD deaths, a few suicides, a few accidents, but never a murder until now. Sad.

What is the appeal of paying hundreds of dollars to camp in a dusty dry lakebed with no facilities, in the middle of nowhere, where you have to bring all your own food and water and clean everything up afterwards?

R14, a lot of people ask that question rhetorically. I get it, I was initially skeptical but I married a longtime Burner and it was a part of who he is. It’s hard to explain how phenomenal and sublime Black Rock City can become from midnight to dawn when everything is good, which it often is.

p.s. these 3 minutes (from my last year there) give a sense of it but being there is still hard to convey… so multisensory and fantastical yet real.

The White Lotus - Season 4: Burning Man

I know of a rich guy who does this. It's a week of doing lots of drugs and having lots of sex and pretending he's one of the people, and then he goes back to his wife and kids in his multiple houses to make more money.

It's like that Star Trek episode where the entire planet of repressed people go nuts for one day once a year raping and killing each other.

[quote] Deputies along with rangers from the Bureau of Land Management responded and “found a single white adult male lying on the ground, obviously deceased,” the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Sunday.

“Obviously deceased” sounds intriguing.

Torta / r16, that does look fun. Too old for it now though.

It’s a shame Angela Lansbury is gone. This would make an excellent Murder She Wrote episode.

Same, R20! I did Burning Man with gusto child-free in my early to mid 40s, but I would never take a kid or teenager there and I’m now sliding inexorably toward 60.

R14, drugs. It looks cool while you’re on drugs.

It does seem like a serial killers dreamscape

I like to camp as much as the next person, but packing in everything (including water) for a week and then cavorting in the desert with 70,000 people isn't for me. But I do think it would make an interesting sociological study.

The guy in OP's photo is giving me a woody.

I would so happily suck the dick of a guy with that kind of body who dressed like that.

The Burning Man death would have made a GREAT Murder She Wrote plot. Imagine Jessica and her geriatric friends stumbling through that event to solve a crime.

With all due respect R14 it looks ridiculous but then the only drug I'm on right now is caffeine It gives me Priscilla Queen of the Desert vibes

[quote] The Burning Man death would have made a GREAT Murder She Wrote plot. Imagine Jessica and her geriatric friends stumbling through that event to solve a crime.

Seth would go undercover as the man in OP's photograph.

It's like Michfest but with way more drugs, less cpaps, and no gulag for boy children.

It’s a personal preference kind of thing. I find staying at a motel with no room service to be as far as I can go. I camped a couple of times in my youth and hated it. I am very happy with an Ambien and a cup (not a cradled mug!) of chamomile tea at bedtime. I’m in my ridiculously soft bed with my cat and my little dog. I am adventure averse since childhood, and I’m ok with that. Let the others get muddy and murdered and contract myriad STDs. It’s just not going to be me. It’s

Why do people spend money to go to the desert and see a burning man? They have circuses still.

Oprahsminge- now that’s a blast from the past.

How don’t people die (or at least pass out) from dehydration more often there? Or do they? The pictures alone give me instant, intense dry mouth and that’s without abusing my body with a litany of chemicals and anonymous sex for 72 hours straight

70 thousand people? Really that many?

Washoe County hates the visitors mostly, but needs them BAD.

Guy in the pic is hot.

I'd love to visit for about 12 hours max...but, I hate sand and grit and feeling dirty.

I've never been but I have friends who went every year from about 2001 to 2006. I think it's gotten much more douche bro in the last 15 years but it used to be very hippy dippy and arty farty and mostly "real people" albeit a lot of real people of the hippy/dippy and arty/farty persuasion.

It's a week long summer camp with cool fun shit to see and do. And, not everyone is there for drugs and sex.

[quote] Washoe County hates the visitors mostly, but needs them BAD.

I wouldn't use the word hate, maybe a little annoyed but bemused by the BM crowd. But their business is good for the economy. A lot of the Burners stay in the casino hotels before and after Burning Man. Just look for dust covered campers and trucks loaded down with crap and the smell of BO and patchouli.

[quote]It's a week long summer camp with cool fun shit to see and do. And, not everyone is there for drugs and sex.

Yep, I suspect since it's become so expensive and mainstream at this point it's gone way down almost to nothing other than a reputation. 20 years ago you could find naked pics all over the internet of most the attendees. Now everyone's almost fully clothed.

A few misconceptions (as posted above I was there 2010 to 2015) —

Oddly it’s such a bone dry environment, people’s bodies by and large don’t stink. At all! Honest truth. It turns out BO requires moisture.

A large % of attendees camp with organized and well established camps, which are like next level scouting in their preparedness. Our camp of 80 or so had showers, 3 decent meals a day, etc.

It’s a city of 75k and it’s the ultimate choose your own adventure, find your people kind of thing. There are hordes of hardcore party people, and there’s also scouty EMT/ranger/responsible types, there are arty but sober Burners, there’s a families section, etc.

The guy in OP's link pic is hot! Love his sexy outfit.

Also there is no sand at all.. it’s 100% dust, a highly alkaline mix of silica and clay powder going bsck millennia.. Everything you have and everything you are gets dusted by the playa.

Imagine how much fun Dexter would have there. Targets galore!

Torta, were you there a couple of years ago when it rained and the playa turned to mud soup? I'm not being snarky, just curious about the experience. It seemed like a hellscape with everyone fleeing, at least what I saw in the local paper and on SM.

That was insane, R45 / Reno Troll! 2023. Several friends were stuck in it … but we were home in the NJ burbs with a little kid.

One year we stayed an extra day in Reno due to rain/mud during Entry. Hundreds of Burners did the same, including some pro DJs, and the hotel let us put on a late night rave til 1am.

Back when I went, we all used to hit up the Reno WalMart on the way in. I got a new bike from there every year and then gifted it to a “free bikes” org at Burning Man afterwards, for people who show up bikeless the following year. We all used to go to that Reno sushi buffet place, too, because the playa provides many things but definitely no sushi.

Thanks Torta, sounds like you had a good time despite the mud craziness. I'm a Reno transplant and the Burners don't make me upset like they do the locals (and they HATE Californians-every problem Reno has with population and growth is blamed on them. Also the Cally hate is helped along by culture war BS on social media). I find all of the Burning Man stuff entertaining even though it's not my thing.

Reno is the only place I've seen all-you-eat sushi. I've only gone a couple of times in the 6 years I've lived here. I just can't shovel in that much sushi to get my money's worth. 😀

Sorry Torta, misread your comment and reread that you weren't there but had friends in the mud mess. I just woke up.

I’m too prissy for it but I can see how it would be fun to some people. If I could leave at the end of the day and go shower I might like it

R49, one key to the magic is to chop up your sleep in the daytime so you can stay up and roam and party most of the night. Most nights the winds go down to peaceful and the entire city is so alive and FUN. And there’s an element of fire everywhere that can’t be done in default-world settings. Torches, flares, pyrotechnics all night long.

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Those edifices (?) in the video at r16 are amazing to see. Such creativity.

Dexter only kills serial killers. Perhaps the occasional really nasty non-serial killer. No innocent victims. Even hipsters and tech bros.

R43, so it's all just dust in the wind?

I'm aware of that damn dust...a friend borrowed a really nice straw boater of mine for BM and naturally it got trashed.

The cheap fucker didn't offer to replace it.

I never loaned him anything again.

It looks fun to me except for the temperature. Which is enough to move it from "interesting communal art/Mad Max cosplay experience with a tiny chance of banging Gus Kenworthy" to "this is what Hell will be like when I get there."

How easy is it to find gay sex at Burning Man? The whole thing sounds pretty hetero.

There’s an entire gay camp area at BM. Whatever you’re looking for you can find. However there’s usually no anal after the first night for obvious reasons.

There are plenty of gay techies who go to Burning Man, including some guys in Peter Thiel's orbit

It's odd that they still haven't been able to identify the victim. Nobody is missing a 30something white guy?

It honestly seems like the perfect setup for a David Fincher or Ridley Scott weird sci-if creepy environment noir-crime thriller

Poking around r/Burningman (Reddit) just now… neither the victim nor a suspect have been identified. It happened in a deserted camp toward the outskirts when nearly the entire festival population was gathered at center to watch the Man burn on Saturday night. Sheriff called it a “heinous” homicide and stories are going around that the victim was found in a massive pool of blood with a large Bowie knife protruding from him. The victim was not a member of the camp where he was killed.

The police should call in Hercule Poirot to help them

Hobo camp!?

R65 is Jerri Blank, trying out for cheerleader.

Victim has been identified. Russian guy, Vadim Kruglov.

Someone should create a Burning Man Clue game.

It was the Software Exec in the Orgy Dome with the Kid's Bicycle.

I'm spitballing here.

Did somebody say “heinous?”

I’ve already identified the Vic, I move quickly and take credit for others’ work

The Vic’s loved ones have asked me to post this. I live to serve victims.

We sincerely ask for your help. 🕯️ Right now it is very important that everyone gets involved and supports us. It is crucial for us to retrace Vadim’s last days at Burning Man. He was definitely at Mine Warrior, danced inside the pyramid, and may have appeared in videos from art cars or spent time with people in the camps.

If you have: — any videos or photos where he might appear in the background, — memories of conversations or encounters with him, — any information about where he was and with whom,

please reach out to us. Every detail could be important.

🙏 We kindly ask for maximum repost and visibility. It is important that this information reaches as many people as possible right now.

📩 Contact: Tg : vladrostov @rostov9656 ; police ‪+1 (775) 442‑1991‬ state sheriff ; @sofi.co__

Thank you to each and every one of you for your support and participation.

A Russian? Does Vladimir Putin have an alibi? 🤣

[quote]Victim has been identified. Russian guy, Vadim Kruglov.

Now it's the opening chapter of a John Lecarré novel.