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Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.Susie Holland, 61, thought that she would offer a helping hand and make a little extra cash on the side by offering car rides to the festival-goers, also known as “Burners,” this year, according to a report.But when she arrived to pick up the Burners at a location they’d agreed upon while speaking online, she was immediately surrounded by the Nevada Transportation Authority.“When I pulled in … they just swooped up on me in three undercover Ford Explorers,” Holland told the Reno Gazette Journal. “They were coming at me so fast, so hard and so intensely, I was like, what is happening right now?”Holland posted a Craigslist ad three weeks ago offering rides to the event, which draws up to 80,000 people annually.

the infamous Burning Man festival.The event, which kicked off Sunday, involves music and stunning art installations, but is also clothing-optional and at times a bit hedonistic — more about the “Orgy Dome” later.Other celebrities who have enjoyed the desert party in the past include Katy Perry, Cara Delevingne, Alessandra Ambrosio, Karlie Kloss and Adrian Grenier.The event was famously derailed last year when a rainstorm stranded thousands of festivalgoers in the mud, including several A-listers.Chris Rock and DJ Diplo walked for six miles in the mud before they were offered a ride on a truck by a fan.Diplo shared video on his Instagram of himself, Rock and several other “Burners,” as they’re called, walking through the mud and then sitting on the back of the truck after they were rescued.Rock, wearing a large jacket, could be heard talking about how much he wanted a “cold brew.”“I legit walked the side of the road for hours with my thumb out cuz i have a show in dc tonight and didnt want to let yall down,” the DJ wrote in the caption about a gig he was able to make that night. “Also shoutout to this guy for making the smart purchase of a truck not knowing it was for this exact moment.”Diplo later told CNN that the night before they trekked out, he and Rock had eaten dinner with Cindy Crawford, her husband Randy Gerber, daughter Kaia Gerber, Austin Butler and others and discussed what they would do because there was more rain in the forecast and no chance to drive out.He said Crawford’s family also walked with them.

Burning Man’s surrealistic circus, fueled by acts of kindness and avant-garde theatrics, sometimes with a dose of hallucinogens or nudity. The spectacle flourished as the festival ballooned over the next three decades.Some say it grew too much, too fast.Things came to a head in 2011 when tickets sold out for the first time.

73,000 people were stuck at the festival due to the weather.Diplo, whose real name is Thomas Wesley Pentz, shared a video to his Instagram where he and Rock, who wore a New York Knicks jacket, sat in the bed of a pickup truck with five other people and bags of equipment.“A fan offered Chris Rock and I a ride out of Burning Man in the back of a pickup,” the DJ wrote in an Instagram video. “I legit walked the side of the road for hours with my thumb out cuz I have a show in DC tonight and didn’t want to let y’all down.”“Also shoutout to this guy for making the smart purchase of a truck not knowing it was for this exact moment,” Diplo added.A post shared by diplo (@diplo)Heavy rain flooded the usually dry land and forced organizers to postpone the namesake ceremony of the event to be postponed and thousands of attendees were told to shelter in place.One person has died at the festival as the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said the death came “during this rain event,” according to NBC San Diego.

Bianca Snyder says she has “no regrets” taking her 7-year-old son, Tage, every year to Burning Man, the infamous sex- and drug-fueled festival in the Nevada desert. “Our son goes everywhere that we go, and that’s just the way that we live,” Snyder — who runs a cannabis company with her partner, known online as @highsocietypapa — told Insider this week about their parenting style.Launched in 1986, Burning Man attracts tens of thousands of attendees who come together to build a “participative temporary metropolis.”The annual festival is widely known for its “Orgy Dome,” drug presence, and extravagant — and skimpy — outfits.A post shared by Bianca aka High Society Mama (@biancastribe)Snyder argues festivalgoers “can cultivate the experience that you want to have” and in addition to drugs and orgies, there are “people doing yoga, there’s people having important conversations that are relevant to improving the future of mankind.

posted to the Burning Man NYC Community Facebook Group looking to offload a ticket to the annual desert festival, which kicks off Sunday.“I have a hard ticket for sale if anyone is interested,” the post read Alex Chaldyshev couldn’t help but respond with the laughing emoji and a “don’t we all.”“I have seen 113 messages about people selling or wanting tickets,” said the 33-year-old software engineer who lives in New York City. He’s been trying to sell his ticket, which he bought through official channels, since early August, without luck. “No one wants them,” he said.

The director of a new documentary about Burning Man festival hopes the film will serve as a tribute to co-founder Larry Harvey, following his death at the age of 70.