Requests for ice cream and flush toilets at Nevada's Burning Man stirs firestorm

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

(Reuters) - U.S. land managers have asked operators of Burning Man to provide them with VIP accommodations and flushable toilets in the Nevada desert during the annual counterculture festival, triggering a political firestorm on Friday.

The demands drew the ire of two U.S. lawmakers from Nevada who described the requests, which also included a standing supply of ice cream, as excessive.

Burning Man, named for the burning of a wooden effigy that marks the climax of the week-long festival of art and free expression, brings nearly 70,000 people to the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada and adds an estimated $35 million to the local economy each year.

Organizers of this year's event, taking place from Aug. 30 to Sept. 7, say fees and facilities they have provided the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for law enforcement and other services at the event surged from under $1 million in 2011 to an anticipated $5 million this year.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/requests-ice-cream-flush-toilets-nevadas-burning-man-010549435.html

[msongs]

1. cliven bundy would do those things for a lot less $$ and feds are askeered of him lol nt

[brush]

4. Maybe, but Bundy's a few hours south

Nevada is a big state.

[xfundy]

2. In other words, the opposite of Burning Man.

They should just buy a motel nearby and luxe it up.

[NBachers]

3. Can't they just bring their own confiscated land yacht motor homes?

"Come here, little bangled hippie! Amuse me! Now

[Sheldon Cooper]

5. These accommodations are being requested for personnel who are providing security

at the event. Since these folks are required to be onsite, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect decent facilities for their use. RVs with flush toilets, comfortable beds, etc. are perfectly reasonable requirements. These folks are not there to celebrate the philosophy of burning man, they are there to provide security.

Demands for ice cream, unlimited Chobani yogurt, etc. are simply ridiculous. They can supply their own food and refreshments.

[MADem]

6. That's the Caucasian Old Hippies' Convention out in the desert...?

Maybe it's getting too big for itself.

Once it tips over into hyper-commercialism, it will lose its' cachet.

I understand that every year they hold that thing, the crowds get older and older.

[Shamash]

7. Don't you mean "sh*tstorm" instead of "firestorm"? ;)