[Jeff Higgins]

I can absolutely get behind CP's description of a "burn". It sounds like something I would love to do.

The topic of this conversation, however, is the debacle we just witnessed unfolding in the Nevada desert. That was absolutely not the "burn" CP describes.

That's the entire point of this discussion - this particular "burn" was not. This particular burn has become a victim of its own success. Far too big, far too commercialized, far too destructive on the environment, enough crime to actually require its own police force, and on and on. This particular burn stands as the very antithesis to the "burn" CP describes.

That is the point of this discussion, not to dismiss or denounce the practice as a whole. I'm sure in smaller settings, faithful to its original roots, a real "burn" is a wonderful thing.

This one was just a laughable, sad parody, ruined by the same folks that ruin everything else of value.