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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Machiavelli on July 14, 2014, 06:21:48 pm

Title: Man commits suicide by leaping into giant bonfire at Burning Man-style festival in Utah
Post by: Machiavelli on July 14, 2014, 06:21:48 pm
Philip Caulfield
New York Daily News
July 14, 2014

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A man killed himself at Burning Man-style arts festival by leaping into a towering burning art structure in front of hundreds of horrified onlookers, authorities and witnesses said.

On Monday, scores of "burners" -- who commune in the Nevada desert every August for Burning Man -- were mourning the doomed festivalgoer after he dove into the flames during a moonlit bonfire ritual at the Element 11 fest near Salt Lake City late Saturday.
More (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-dies-leaping-bonfire-burning-man-stye-festival-utah-desert-article-1.1865848)
Title: Re: Man commits suicide by leaping into giant bonfire at Burning Man-style festival in Utah
Post by: alicewonders on July 14, 2014, 06:45:32 pm
If you're going to go out - go out in a blaze of glory!
Title: Re: Man commits suicide by leaping into giant bonfire at Burning Man-style festival in Utah
Post by: Dexter on July 14, 2014, 08:32:23 pm
That couldn't have smelled very good.
Title: Re: Man commits suicide by leaping into giant bonfire at Burning Man-style festival in Utah
Post by: EC on July 14, 2014, 11:00:56 pm
Quote from: Dex4974 on July 14, 2014, 08:32:23 pm
That couldn't have smelled very good.

It smells revoltingly appetizing once the hair and clothes are burned off. Almost exactly like pork roasting.
Title: Re: Man commits suicide by leaping into giant bonfire at Burning Man-style festival in Utah
Post by: Fishrrman on July 15, 2014, 12:55:33 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EV6q0lSHII
Title: Re: Man commits suicide by leaping into giant bonfire at Burning Man-style festival in Utah
Post by: Oceander on July 15, 2014, 02:04:19 am
There he goes:

(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1865844.1405345441!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/man-dies-jumping-bonfire-element-11.jpg?enlarged)

Title: Re: Man commits suicide by leaping into giant bonfire at Burning Man-style festival in Utah
Post by: NavyCanDo on July 15, 2014, 04:12:49 am
Judging by the partying crowd in the You Tube, my guess there was a good likelihood alcohol and a lot of cannabis was involved. So rather than being your "goodbye cruel world" sort of suicide, it was more of a, "hey dud, watch this"ending.