Hark, I see the Buffalo Car. It's a cluster of rebar in the shape of a buffalo mounted on a dessicated car. It had fire blazing from its nostrils until the law of the land put a stop to it. Yeah this pissed people off, but it's interesting to consider the case of the Capitalist Pigs camp: these were a bunch of guys who showed up with the sole intention of pissing everybody off. They sat in their camp razzing passers-by with their bullhorn, yelling sexist / racist / homophobic / whatever comments, and I'm told even at children. As the rumor has it, they dumped a bunch of paint over the playa, making the "leave no trace" philosophy a bit of a challenge, and they jammed a bunch of rebar into the ground as landmines for bicycles. They were kicked out, and theirs was a bit of a cause celebre, probably championed mostly by people who hadn't actually seen the mean spiritedness of their camp. Hmm, what's an anarchist to do?
 
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Sic the burning buffalo at em!

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FYI, they sucked a lot. We were a block and a half away and we could hear them constantly - big assholes. Really stupid. Needed to be both slapped and ignored.

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They also tagged the man and a bunch of other stuff, sent a whole lot of people crying to center the paper was wrong when it said they harassed a twelve year old girl, it was a six year old they followed saying "i wanna fuck your daughter" to her dad. I'm cool with mean art that doesn't interfere with another persons experience, but they were so cruel and mean spirited, they sucked basically. also they were warned so mnay times and given every kind and still didn't give a shit and did whatever they wanted so I dont feel badly for their being kicked out at all!!!!!!

wacqui

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Sometimes, it is necessary to resort to a little government....
KMK

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And so the story has been told for 33 generations of how the Rangers stole the Buffallo's Fire.

{8~{D>

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Though the Buffalo is not loved by all rangers, that is not the reason it no longer breaths fire.

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they were directly across venus from us. pure evil with no irony. a little irony would have gone a long way. cameron

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This bad photo of the Buffalo followed by a long discourse on the biggest assholes on the Playa this year , compete with misinformation (on both counts.), hardly does the Buffalo justice. The Buffalo never harrassed anyone. The Rangers did not outlaw the flaming nostrils. The impounding was all in good fun, as was the liberation.
Are you comparing the two? If so then get a fucking clue.

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Harumph!

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I think he was making a point about some law being necessary, not that the Buffalo was on a par with the Capitalist Pigs.

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What does the necessity of a little law have to do with the Buffalo? It is one of the most profound symbols and moving (pun somewhat intended.) works of art I have ever encountered. The Capitalist Pigs wanted to piss poeple off. What exactly is the connection between the two?
Can Wrybread rise above his smug "Harumph" and respond?

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I guess I'm going to have to be very explicit with this one. Here goes:

a) at least according to the rumor mill (sorry, I'm not omniscent), the rangers (i.e., the law) asked someone connected to the Buffalo both not to shoot fire from its nostrils, and not to drive the thing while inebriated.

b) To at least some people (myself included), that's annoying, whiffing of an encroachment of the anarchistic spirit of Burning Man. In other words, it smells like someone's trying to take away someone else's self-responsibility.

c) However, people like the Capitalist Pigs give a pretty good example of what happens in the complete absence of law. It would seem some people can't be trusted to be self-governing.

Which isn't to say d) that the Buffalo is representative of abuse of freedom. It only brings up the complex issue of how much regulation there should be, when it should be enforced, and much etc.

Did I answer your question?

Harumph!

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ps- Just to clarify things further, the interesting issue here has nothing to do with the buffalo. I don't care about the buffalo any more or less than I do about any other good artcar, but I care very much about the very complex issue of how and when laws should be enforced at Burning Man.

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with anarchy comes intelligence and love its sad we have very little

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i never saw/heard the CP camp myself, but i did encounter their 'land mines' one night while riding my bike. getting snarled in my bike and doing a face plant into the pitch dark 1) hurt like a mofo and 2) scared the shit out of me. good riddance.

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Making another pass at the HMS Love. Next year I bet someone'll bring a scuba outfit so they can dive around the shipwreck. And the year after that there'll be a school of fish nesting there.
 
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..."has any one
seen my nutsack
shaped sapphire?"
(lk)

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You must've missed the evening that the school of luminescent fish swam around the ship. very cute.

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Actually, the Opera folk are already thinking about having an Atlantis theme for next year, complete with an artificial moat around their camp and a lotta undersea imagery.

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a gentleman from "fleshlab" ( Dr. NOS) did have a scuba tank. except it was of no use for diving. but it was great for flying!! thank you Dr. NOS...

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