Court: Man Burned at Burning Man Assumed Risk of Being Burned by Burning Man
It seemed like it came from The Onion, except it didn't!
"On June 30, the California Court of Appeal held that a man who was burned by the huge bonfire that ends the Burning Man festival each year could not sue the festival organizers. Anthony Beninati admitted he had intentionally walked into the fire, and that he had previously known fire was hot. But he argued, basically, that the organizers were negligent because they should not have let him approach the fire so closely.
He did not win."
http://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/07/court-man-burned-at-burning-man-assumed-risk-of-being-burned-by-burning-man.html
Found on http://community.livejournal.com/burning_man/
"On June 30, the California Court of Appeal held that a man who was burned by the huge bonfire that ends the Burning Man festival each year could not sue the festival organizers. Anthony Beninati admitted he had intentionally walked into the fire, and that he had previously known fire was hot. But he argued, basically, that the organizers were negligent because they should not have let him approach the fire so closely.
He did not win."
http://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/07/court-man-burned-at-burning-man-assumed-risk-of-being-burned-by-burning-man.html
Found on http://community.livejournal.com/burning_man/