Man found dead at Burning Man

14 andsoitis 4 9/2/2025, 12:19:27 AM bbc.com ↗

Comments (4)

mensetmanusman · 2h ago
An event so large the statistics of human behavior on dopamine results in a murder.
throwaway81523 · 2h ago
No reason yet to think it was a murder. There have been some past deaths at burning man (natural causes, car accidents etc) but apparently no murders so far.

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1n5yh6e/sheriffs_seek...

That said, that reddit thread makes Burning Man sound massively over the shark. Cool 30 years ago but completely crap now. I've never gone and am glad of that.

Spivak · 1h ago
I mean the first line of the article.

> A murder investigation has been launched at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada after a man was found "lying in a pool of blood" on Saturday night, police say.

I have no idea why the BBC editor decided to be really vague with the title. When talking about a music festival "a body found," murder is probably pretty down your list of what you would assume the cause is.

thejazzman · 16m ago
the fact they're writing an article about it at all leads me to assume murder or something of editorial interest

but i admit that's a pretty weak argument since content is content now-a-days and so perhaps i should really be assuming the opposite..