NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: … Into The Fire
After Anthony Beninati’s hands and arm were badly burned at the September 2005 Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, NV – his third Burning Man visit – he sued the event’s promoters for negligence, reports The Associated Press:
Once the Burning Man topples, participants are invited to throw objects into the bonfire. Beninati planned to contribute a photo of a friend who was supposed to come with him but had recently died in a motorcycle accident.
He walked 7 to 10 feet into the burning embers, with flames on either side of him, threw in the photo, then took a few more steps forward, tripped and fell into the fire.
Beninati’s suit was dismissed on the grounds that he should have known he was playing with fire, and now the First District Court of Appeal has upheld the lower court’s handling of the patently frivolous lawsuit: “The risk of falling and being burned by the flames or hot ash was inherent, obvious and necessary to the event,” wrote presiding Justice Ignazio Ruvolo in the 3-0 ruling.
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