Wow! That is some story. I am sorry that this happened to you, but from early on I have steered clear of rangers. I treat them like they are cops. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Read the Stanford study on guards and prisoners. Put on a uniform and you have magic powers. Just say...

I just found it..... silly you.

Look what I found.
http://burnedburners.wordpress.com/

ZaphodBurner

yes. you are right.

the flippant ones are wrong, but they are sitting high and mighty right now

they are flaunting it... so very uncool.

cburkey very good post. read it all. couldn't agree more. flippant is also one of the new principles. reality is a hard bite to swallow - unless you're gay and no, not that gay... I mean gay in the "I am happy no matter what" gay. you know... in the common sense. at first my anger was toward BORG......

you popple are just so cuddly cute...........

it refreshing to see so many right spirited popple going this year

and it's nice to see that this thread has been turned upside down.

Instead of "You weren't Rejected" it has become "You were rejected"

now very sweet. thank you. *kisses*

it's not about individuals at this point. it's about the theme camps. you'll see. you'll come around. and snooty is the right word. you'll see that too. then you'll be embarrassed. or mortified. or worse. May the dogs of BLM wreak vengeance on all of you. they smell - they sniff - they find you. saw...

Burners burn! I would'nt stop building and creating just because of a stupid ticket. I would build and create, and if I can't go to BM, set up at any random beach or campground and watch the "What the fuck" looks on peoples faces while I BURN!!! Burners burn! 8) yes... burner burn. fire burns out t...

Kenny Z wrote:I didn't get a ticket because I am white!

it's a racist plot.................... (by whom, I wouldn't know, since there are just a few ethnics up there)

I agree.

I've come to terms with the idea of not going(for the first time in 7 yrs), and you know what? I'm ok with it.

Same for me.... 7 years running. Stop running... start walking.

Donna, you are being kindof a jerk in more than one thread here... But you and zaphod do make a good point. I've seen a *lot* of people posting that they simply won't be bringing their camps out this year. That sucks. I think a lot of people just feel kindof betrayed by the org right now. yeah........

No one in my theme camp got a ticket. This seems against all rules of probability. 0 for 20. Either the pool of extra/fake tickets is ENORMOUS or something is up here. Like a preference for people in SF or something? How could tickets be available into the summer last year and this year 40,000 tick...

this is starting to be quite funny. the winners don't realize that they are the real losers. camps are not going to be there. this process has split up everything. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and All the King's men... couldn't put Humpty Dumpt...

Maybe you'll get a fake ticket and I'll laugh at you.

At first I was sympathetic but now I think some people just need to quit their bitchin'. It's not our fault or anybody elses on here that your name didn't get drawn...so don't try to ruin it for us. If you truly want to go that bad then you'll find a ticket - whether it's from a scalper or not. You...

Mosquitopilate wrote:I am still going no matter what...STEP

That's what you think now..............

I have a bad feeling........ you know. like those movies where you miss your plane and the plane crashes........ yeah...like that.

it's the way we feel. true, not true. but it is contrary to everything about bm.

right?

Wanna totaly mess over scalpers – here is an idea - If you really want to have some fun with the scalper market, create a ticket system that does not have any independent means of verification. No hologram. No fancy printing. Just a very simple and very easy to forge ticket with a unique ID number....

AND GOOD RIDDANCE. My hope is that this fine lottery will clean out the people who despair and give up too easily, the people who blame burgins for their ticket woes, the self-entitled folk, the people who can't or won't adapt. Maybe it'll even have lasting effects, sparing us their presence in the...

I am really starting to wonder - maybe the scalpers and hoarders really are just boogeymen for the most part. There are something like 313,000 people liking Burning Man on Facebook, and don't count me in that - I am not on Facebook. The economy has picked up (slightly) this year. Americans are work...

Burning Man is continuously evolving and reinventing itself. To be honest, I think this shake-up is a good thing. New alliances will be made. Big camps (some of them) have gotten cliquey, downright rude and unwelcoming even, and maybe having smaller camps will encourage more participation and inter...

You have two options. Accept your fate ( or Ka for all you Steven King fans ) and stop your bitchen. I have been utterly amazed ( and this is coming from a sociology/psychology/philosophy major with six years of semi Ivy league years under my belt ) at the colossal amount of cow poop that has been ...

Sounds like BM is really going to SUCK big time this year.

BMorg may have just shot themselves in the foot.

How can this low rate for camp be? The numbers are just not adding up.

I'm telling you. The BMorg is maneuvering to sell BM to some undisclosed Non-profit. They want to maximize their profits.

THE DIRTY RAT BASTARDS!

And no, my daughter and I did not get tickets.

We've been told WE make BM. Well, that's obviously a LIE.

I most likely will not be making anything BM this year.

And it wasn't my fault. I was gambled out.

What is this world coming to?

chanting.................. burn it, burn it, more fire, less rules.............. burn it....

Maybe BM has turned in a cult.

Should we all wear one color and chant?

And who, I might ask, made this decision? Was it BORG (the owners) or was it the Non-profit staff. I would sure like to know. I am wondering how this whole non-profit thingy is going to work out. We knew the owners and even met some on the playa, but does anybody know who will be (is) running the no...