And my response is, I don't care where a minor is from, you shouldn't be serving her alcohol, so that's the fault of whoever is serving and the parents who let the kids go out to Burning Man by themselves. Exactly. And that is where we are now regarding the alcohol issue. The cops are bringing in u...

A lot of this discussion is about personal choices parents are making regarding bringing their children with them to BRC. The issue of the local kids going out there is of great importance to this discussion. It is my understanding that the locals, including the local kids, get reduced-price tickets...

Burning Man without kids is not Burning Man - this community has always included children. Larry Harvey's son was at the very first burn, and the kids would build a little Burning Dog to go alongside the man. They're here to stay, as in any other city. Burning Man has changed. When the first burner...

Rough luck, Overdrive. I am so sorry that happened. I will be thinking of you and sending you my best thoughts during the certain hassle of the court hearings and such surrounding this episode of random and overt harassment. I'm curious that the cops indicated to you that they wanted BRC to be an 18...

But then we're going from "No kids" to no "under-21", and even if it was no "under-21", what's to stop the police from using underage decoys still? If it were forbidden for anyone under 21 to enter BRC, the police would be breaking the rules to bring an underage decoy into BRC. The greeters would c...

Oh wow...so let me get this straight. You want to ban anyone that's not of legal age to drink? That means we get to ban 18 year olds and up...teenagers who serve our country in the military and put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms we exercise at Burning Man! Sorry but that's discrimi...

There was an event, reported in the Black Rock Beacon, this year where one of the law enforcement agencies brought in an underage decoy to get served alcohol.

They busted and fined somebody for pouring a drink for this person.

If BM were an adults-only event, this could not have happened.

But I of course take exception to your thought that "kids at BRC don't add to the event in a positive way." If that's not just a rhetorical flourish, the annoying way modern educated people have been taught to drive every last nail all the way into the coffin so that the argument is taken to comple...

Kids are a mixed bag out on the Playa. It's easy to imagine that some burner parents would want to instill some of the values of BRC in their kids. There can be a downside to the involvement of kids at BRC. Here is what happened for me this year. On Thursday I took a ride on the Nowhere Ombibus (ope...