Calif. man gets prison for burning Burning Man

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!!!!

"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.

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.

Aww, look, he's smiling! He must know that he'll now get his very own FBI number!

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.

He looks a little too happy for a mug shot

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!

Okay, @!$%#...he had explosives! What the..? Maybe he's just a plain ole arsonist...

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.

1. +50 for Irony.
2. +100 for BEST MUG SHOT EVER.

he doesn't even look like he's mad about going to
prison ......btw, he looks really dum in that pic

If I set off fireworks on July 1st am I going to be sent to prison?

Fireworks are illegal in MD and VA. You might.

Ummmm...a freakshow by any other name is still a freakshow.