If you go to Burning Man and get burned, you assume the risk.

A man who got burned at Burning Man cannot sue for failing to know the fire was hot. Burning Man is an annual event in the Nevada desert that culminates in burning a 60′ wooden edifice. It started on a beach in California after a bad divorce.

I’ve always wanted to go. It is a week of naked people running around drunk or in costumes drunk. My kind of place!

Four years ago the plaintiff went to burning man and attempted to throw a picture of a deceased friend on the fire and was burnt in the process. It was his third trip to Burning Man. Actually he tripped and fell into the fire after throwing the picture into the fire.

He sued Burning Man for his injuries and the appellate court upheld a lower court opinion and said he assumed the risk. The plaintiff’s claim was based on the allegation that “negligently allowing people to approach the fire without safe pathways.”

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