Burning Man Etiquette
The Mens Room Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ted, you've been there before, but it's officially over, |
| 0:02.0 | and a Redwood city family says it's taking legal action after someone allegedly drove their RV to Burning Man without permission. |
| 0:09.3 | Oh, wait, what? |
| 0:10.6 | So they took the... |
| 0:12.7 | You can rent people's RVs. |
| 0:15.0 | Okay. |
| 0:15.4 | You can't take them to Burning Man if they don't want you to, though. |
| 0:18.5 | Okay. |
| 0:19.1 | And they usually have that in the language. Even renting vans. Not to Burning Man if they don't want you to though. Okay. And they usually have that in the language. |
| 0:21.1 | Yes. Even renting vans. Not to Burning Man? Yes. Well, this actually was caused by weather. You would think it would just be the destruction of the partying and everything else. Yeah. No, no, no. It's always the weather. You've got to get Burning Man when people say it's sand. It's not sand. it's dust. |
| 0:17.9 | It's a dry lake bed, right? |
| 0:19.2 | So, I mean, think about like, like baby powder. Okay, so it's that super fine. It gets in to everything. And then with the winds, it will destroy, like people have almonds. Yeah. You kiss that thing, goodbye. Really? Oh, yeah. That's why it's not like people are raging party in that hard. I mean, you can, but like most of the damage is from the weather. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, because even when you get back, man, and you rented it from somebody who said it's okay to go to Burning Man? They're still pissed. Well, no, but you got to spend. I was telling Mike this last night. You've done the week. You've done it. You've, you've, you've, you've, uh, tear down all your camp. Now you got to spend 90 minutes to two hours deep cleaning the RV. Uh-huh. And getting all your stuff out and this and that. It's not a vacation. It is like, it's not a vacation. And it's not a commitment. It's a commitment. Correct. You got to want to go to this thing. |
| 1:28.8 | So, yeah, I don't blame these people. |
| 1:30.2 | If they tell you, don't take it to Burning Man, you can't hide that you took him. |
| 1:33.8 | The renter's contract specifically stated the RV could not be taken to Burning Man. RV owner Ronnie Ginto |
| 1:26.1 | Put a tracking device |
| 1:28.7 | Inside the RV |
| 1:30.0 | Allegedly showed the renter drove the |
| 1:47.2 | camera to Black Rock City in Nevada during the dates of the festival. Now the insurance |
| 1:52.0 | will not cover the damage. He still did it. He still made the choice. It's disappointing. It's |
| 1:57.0 | heartbreaking. Now the renter is responsible for the damage, and his name is Shaban Shikori. |
| 2:03.7 | According to business records, Shikori rented the RV the same weekend as the Burning Man Festival. |
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