What they OFFICIALLY admit and what they REALLY GET are two different things (hello! taxes!)

he's not way off on attendance. I think paid was 47k and full attendance was 62k

taz

I'm not listening to anybody that can't string together 20 burners on his friends list.

Um . . . what exactly constitutes a child abandonment? Everyone packed up and went home, and when the dust settled, there was an unclaimed kid sitting there? Or was it found in a box at Playa Info? I mean, kids do go missing during the event, it's a very real problem, and then they are reunited with their parents, with much crying and fervent promises from said parents never to be so irresponsible again. So if this incredibly well-informed guy who knows all the secrets just happened to be around during one of those brief worries when folks were looking avidly for a lost child, he could well have gotten the impresison that the kid was really truly gone. Same thing if he was a bystander when the kid was found first and the parents hadn't shown up yet.

As to the two mystery deaths that no one heard about because the evil black ops wing of the org covered them up to protect the giant chest of gold that Larry Harvey has buried under Bruno's. Yep, absolutely. Just like every year. Carry on with that, as you were. Neat how all of these mystery deaths, mutilations, alien abductions and such never make the news, postings by friends on Tribe, missing posters around town, or anything. That chest full of gold must be very, very large indeed to pay off so many people. Odd then that they couldn't hush up the few legitimate deaths that do occur. Why the disparity, ya reckon? I'm sure there's a good, well thought out reason that some guy who has no firends, wears a tinfoil hat, and lives on a ranch in Gerlach can elucidate for us.

I'm curious. What's the charge on/interest in/difference between one death or three? Is the main poster's point about a cover up, or that three is a giant number, or......?






Besides, the desert is a bloodthirsty god, and would likely be happy with a few more sacrifices.

Heh heh! Don't forget concealed weapons! Attacking clowns! Bicycle thefts (sometimes by force!) Yo ho yo ho the pirates life for me! Disneyland plus Dynamite! (That's what I told a friend Burning Man was like for me!)

>and Four Pranks Gone Horribly Wrong.

Damn, that number represents my camp alone.

>>I'll see your Three Deaths AND a Child Abandonment, and raise you a Date Rape and Four Pranks Gone Horribly Wrong. <<

... oh yeah, and one bass-thumping, vip-room-having, rave-throwing, insecure-attracting triple-decker art bus known as "Limelight-on-Playa"

I'd also be interested in knowing incidents where someone sustains injuries on the playa that directly result in their death. Someone leaving in an ambulance and arriving DOA at the hospital qualifies as at least *relevant* dontcha think?

I'm still unclear on why it matters at the moment. Right after burning man every year we get various reports and rumors of how many deaths, how many this, how many that. And every year those numbers start out wrong. And every year the stories eventually settle out and the true numbers are what we are left with.

I just don't get what this thread was started for, other than maybe to add to the mix of rumors until we get the solid info.

Oh, and you said something about the suicide not being identified? He has already been identified by many of his personal friends as a young man from Colorado, I believe his name is Jerm, and I have not seen a last name yet. I'm not sure of the status of his "legal identification" as in by a family member...but he is not an unknown in the community.

But I ask again...at this point, so soon after the event, what does it matter?

Wild West - I hope you get this before you are in Reno.
Check under the Pershing and Washoe County Sheriff's records.
Good luck.
Rumors abound and corporations cover up with loopholes so their benefactors/customers and money can keep coming in.

...and, for what it's worth (without sounding like a dick measurer), I've been out there longer, lived closer, and know more "key" people, than Jason, so there (sticks out tongue while stretching cheeks and making a thpphthhptht sound)!

BTW, I like Jason, I just don't trust his quick, from-the-hip statistical offering as much as Wild West does.

And Anathema Device... LOLOLOLOL!!!

Shooter always comes up with a good angle but even if the blogger in question were to be in LOVE with the event, taking the time to read his blog you'll quickly note that he just moved to the ranch in June. No matter his relation to the event itself, he mentions it only in passing and is mostly consumed by the day to day of getting things up and running. I noted that he rhapsodizes a bit about the "freedom" he's feeling living in the desert which to me simply means he's never done it before. He's also never seen a yurt before this year.....I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to his "involvement" in BM.

So the suicide, the heart attack and Steve Fossett.

I think we can find at least one child who was abandoned by their bf, gf, tf or whoever for a better looking one at BM. Since we are all the child of someone(s) I'd say that it's a fair statement.

It doesn't take a kajillion hours to connect with friends (burner or otherwise) on tribe, it takes 8 minutes. You spent more time perpetuating the story and defending the alleged guy who allegedly lives across the alleged street from the alleged ranch, or some such shit.

I was going to call bullshit, but you stepped it up and cited your real world friends who are Reno cops. Not Reno 911, mind you, but Reno cops. I await police report info, it's a big internet and we can all independently verify your info just as soon as you post anything tangible.

~Trilo~