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RENO — A San Francisco performance artist was sentenced Friday to as many as four years in prison and ordered to pay restitution for the early torching last summer of the signature effigy of the counterculture Burning Man festival.
Paul Addis pleaded guilty in May to one felony count of injury to property stemming from the burning of the 40-foot icon on Aug. 28 — four days earlier than planned. He was ordered to pay $30,000 in restitution.
Addis, 35, was taken into custody after a hearing this week in Pershing County District Court in Lovelock.
Burning Man organizers rebuilt the effigy in time for it to go up in flames in the ceremonial climax of the annual weekend festival in the northern Nevada desert.
In March, Addis pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts related to an alleged arson attempt at San Francisco's historic Grace Cathedral, according to the city prosecutor's office.
Addis was out on bail in the Burning Man case when police say he was found with an ammunition belt of small explosives outside the Episcopal church. He was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered back to Nevada to face the charges there.
Burning Man, an eclectic art, music and performance festival that draws more than 40,000 people, began in 1986 at San Francisco's Baker Beach and was moved to the Black Rock Desert in 1990.
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{"commentId":2069731,"authorDomain":"katcelata"}
This guy isn't a "performance artist"!!! Clearly he's an arsonist using "performance artist" to give him a legitimate platform to feed his pathology. Lock him up!!!!
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#1 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:46 PM EDT{"commentId":2069791,"authorDomain":"dummyshop"}
Being an arsonist is not necessarily a pathological issue.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":2070030,"authorDomain":"fawnshore"}
Being an arsonist is not necessarily a pathological issue.
For mafiosos, it's just "good business", right?
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2069827,"authorDomain":"dummyshop"}
"Pyromania is defined as a pattern of deliberate setting of fires for pleasure or satisfaction derived from the relief of tension experienced before the fire-setting. The name of the disorder comes from two Greek words that mean "fire" and 'loss of reason' or 'madness.' The clinician's handbook, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, also known as the DSM, classifies pyromania as a disorder of impulse control, meaning that a person diagnosed with pyromania fails to resist the impulsive desire to set firesas opposed to the organized planning of an arsonist or terrorist."
This could have been a prank are just a stupid (possibly drunken) decision. I think the sentence was excessive, a fine would have been sufficient.
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- 2 votes
#2 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:03 PM EDT{"commentId":2069983,"authorDomain":"bartning"}
Clipping to Crime and Punishment, the guy tries to light one fire, then another: hence the harsh sentence? He did actually burn down the Burning Man early, but it was made to burn at a later time.
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- 1 vote
#3 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:28 PM EDT{"commentId":2070081,"authorDomain":"a-purnhagen"}
{"commentId":2070238,"authorDomain":"regbarc"}
Aww, look, he's smiling! He must know that he'll now get his very own FBI number!
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- 3 votes
#5 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:07 PM EDT{"commentId":2070473,"authorDomain":"mcrutchfield"}
From the look of those lame-ass tattoos and that face paint, burning down burning man might have been the coolest thing he's ever done.
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- 3 votes
#6 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:49 PM EDT{"commentId":2070592,"authorDomain":"JStranahan"}
He looks a little too happy for a mug shot
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#7 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:07 AM EDT{"commentId":2070785,"authorDomain":"mentalshift"}
That guy is trippin' balls.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2070720,"authorDomain":"luigilopresti"}
Uh....folks, it doesn't sound like any of you have actually been to Burning Man, but the WHOLE POINT is rebellion, anti-culture, counter-culture whatever...the fact that these dip@!$%#s pressed charges tells you everything you need to know about the numbing effects of good ole' homogeny...what a joke!
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- 3 votes
#8 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:38 AM EDT{"commentId":2070789,"authorDomain":"mentalshift"}
Yeah, wtf?
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2070790,"authorDomain":"fawnshore"}
Uh....folks, it doesn't sound like any of you have actually been to Burning Man, but the WHOLE POINT is rebellion
Eek!
anti-culture
noooo....
counter-culture
AIIIIEEEE!!!
Stand back! He's got a Che Guevera T-shirt and he's not afraid to use it!
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":2071772,"authorDomain":"softfacts"}
the fact that these dip@!$%#s pressed charges tells you everything you need to know...
Yeah, that they aren't anarchists. When was your last trip to Burning Man anyway?
{"commentId":2071772,"threadId":"301071","contentId":"1619315","authorDomain":"softfacts"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":2070727,"authorDomain":"luigilopresti"}
Okay, @!$%#...he had explosives! What the..? Maybe he's just a plain ole arsonist...
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#9 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:40 AM EDT{"commentId":2070729,"authorDomain":"ThreeCents"}
He set fire to someone else property, right? IF he endangered anybody, charge him accordingly. Take it to trial, if found guilty, have him go to jail, pay a fire appropriate the offsense. Enough said.
Now, I have to say there is some irony there. This makes it kind of funny.
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#10 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:41 AM EDT{"commentId":2071356,"authorDomain":"darkknightjrk"}
1. +50 for Irony.
2. +100 for BEST MUG SHOT EVER.
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- 1 vote
#11 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:57 AM EDT{"commentId":2072175,"authorDomain":"rcweb77"}
{"commentId":2072888,"authorDomain":"sianv100"}
he doesn't even look like he's mad about going to prison ......btw, he looks really dum in that pic
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#13 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:14 PM EDT{"commentId":2073819,"authorDomain":"darkknightjrk"}
he looks really dum in that pic
So...ironic...
:P
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{"commentId":2076454,"authorDomain":"ishboobabie"}
If I set off fireworks on July 1st am I going to be sent to prison?
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- 1 vote
#14 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:44 PM EDT{"commentId":2091467,"authorDomain":"dummyshop"}
Probably laughed at, given a calender and maybe a history lesson, if the responding officer is smart enough to know U.S. history.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2077347,"authorDomain":"kalika-h"}
Fireworks are illegal in MD and VA. You might.
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#15 - Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:11 AM EDT{"commentId":2077664,"authorDomain":"sctanker"}
Ummmm...a freakshow by any other name is still a freakshow.
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