Leave it to Burning Man to create a headline where it would never really exist anywhere.
This is my review of Samuel Adams Cherry Bomb:
Okay fine, upon further review it is obvious this could happen anywhere (TW: Swiss, please skip to the end đ):
Within moments, the 51-year-old Colorado resident heard whistling and yelling and was suddenly struck by a third skydiver on the left side of her back â the same side as her sole kidney.
[âŚ]âI was just screaming, âThatâs my only kidney, thatâs my only kidney,ââ Herre said. âI was terrified, and then I was in excruciating pain.â
Herre told SFGATE that she was hit near Rampart, Burning Manâs highly equipped hospital for the temporary desert cityâs 70,000 residents, and emergency services personnel saw the impact and transported her to the emergency room. Itâs not the first time sheâd been treated at Burning Man for an injury, as she tore her ACL last year, she said. But this time, Herre was advised that she might need to leave Black Rock City for a more advanced monitoring of her injuries, particularly her kidney.
Though the hospital offered to medevac her by helicopter, Herre opted to have her son drive her to a hospital in Sparks, Nevada. At that hospital, personnel recommended that she be transported to a Level 2 trauma center for further treatment. In an email to SFGATE, Herre said she suffered a lacerated spleen and two broken ribs, and she was hospitalized for several days. Since then, sheâs faced additional health complications stemming from the incident, she said
The article asks the obvious question of who is at fault for this womanâs injuries. My first instinct is the skydiver, as standard rules in most sports is the foul is charged to the player initiating contact. He just jumped on some lady at a festival but had she been in relatively good health she would probably be okay. Iâve never been struck by a skydiver though. Either way both of them shouldâve been insured for such a event. Indeed, travel insurance for Burning Man does exist, although I would hate to see the actuary tables on that one. I wouldnât be terribly surprised if life insurance carriers had a âBurning Man clauseâ of sorts, even if its just for a outdoor concert.
WHO AMONG US has not witnessed a mosh pit gone awry?
Anyways I went ahead and checked the ICD-10 database to see what they might use to bill such an absurd event. The first place I looked seemed more like an injury to the parachutist, or this one here for being bumped by a person an an event, but it seems more general in nature. It will probably end up being a V97.29 which again is a catch all.
For more information on demographics and mortality from Burning Man, please see this substack.
I saw this one at a Circle K while waiting for my oldest to finish his band practice. At first I was delighted that somebody tried making something that isnât IPA. Then I drank itâŚafter I got home of course, lest I become an F10.10 or even an F10.20. I am old enough to remember when Sam Adams put out a product called Cherry Kriek every summer. I rather liked that one in my youth, until I noticed I attracted the attention of other men drinking wheat beer at large gatherings. Is that what this is like? No. Its like Cherry Kriek if they forgot to water it down to 4.5% level and leaves you with a dull ache in your sinuses the following morning. More likely they just dumped in more yeast and sugar on accident and found a sellable product to 40 something year old men with moderate personality openness and high school age children. But hey! At least its not an IPA. Samuel Adams Cherry Bomb: 2.3/5 9% ABV
But hey! At least its not an IPA.
At least it has that going for it.
I think when I want a cherry beer, I’ll stick with Three Philosophers.
Its been a long time, but New Glarus made a phenomenal kriek-style beer. They still make a cherry beer, but it looks different now. Iâll absolutely give it and the framboise a go next time I see them. Unfortunately, they are not available outside of WI.
Well worn trope at BM: Read the back of your ticket. [Wherein it states you assume all risk of injury or death…]
Where is the fun in taking responsibility for yourself?
Cornell coed nods in agreement.
With an accent like this I wouldnât take responsibility for myself either. https://x.com/GD44vh/status/2105895905949876568
Pffft, whereâs the fun in that!?
https://www.samueladams.com/our-beers/year-round/cherry-wheat remains popular with some friends.
Iâve never been struck by a skydiver though.
In the movies they show paratroopers training by jumping off a platform. I Have seen a few parachutists land, and they seem to be going at a pretty good clip.
Like being jumped on from a second floor window? I’ll pass.
The stated* rate of descent by a standard round military parachute is 16 feet/second. The chutes that are used in freefall can be stalled so the rate of descent for a few seconds can be 1-2 ft/sec. Who knows what happened here? The BM risk waiver is probably pretty good, and the impacted woman had hurt herself at a previous BM, so BM probably won’t pay. Maybe they can comp her a ticket for next year to gain public good will. She can always try for an injury hat rick.
*That rate of descent is for a set weight person, and a known temp/altitude/humidity so I would take it with a large grain of salt. From my personal experience I had jumps where I swear I was coming down like a lawn dart. I only broke my vertebra on one jump, so I have that going for me.
injury hat rick
Yeesh. Listen I never jumping out of a plane unless its crashing anyways.
If the jumper had executed a hook turn prior to landing, he could have been traveling *very* fast. Which would also explain how they ran into the person on the ground. A normal speed straight in approach, there should not have been any impact
the 51-year-old Colorado resident heard whistling and yelling and was suddenly struck by a third skydiver
People falling from the sky? Why would you look up?
situational awareness is so last century
If that Cornell gal was a 6 instead of a 4, that brings new meaning to the 6,7 thing.
are you talking absolute scale or based on university? she would be a 6 in Texas or Arizona but a 4 in NY, that sort of thing.
I think a NY 4 would by a TX or AZ 2.
Coed at AZ colleges are much better looking than that.
OK Zoomer.
Zohran Mamdani explains his definition of socialism to Theo Von: âSocialism to me means youâll have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is the governmentâs job to deliver on that. When people say dignity weâre talking about the things that allow you to take a breath. Housing, childcare, public transit. No one should be priced out of these things. These are non-negotiables, you need these to liveâ
https://x.com/MarcoFoster_/status/2105804689220489445
So nice so reasonable what monster would oppose socialism
I need neither childcare nor housing to live.
I meant public transit, not housing. Whatever.
Common sense. Now pay up – or else.
There are multiple ways in which you could obtain health care if you lost your job that don’t involve state violence.
Yeah, lots of dignity in taking the labor and property of others at gunpoint. Them white plantation owners were just trying to maintain their dignified life style until them Damn Yankee Black Republicans came along.
Even if the government handled those things, the mission creep would expand it out to everything. We’ve already seen it. Once the basic idea that government does things well/better than the private sector takes hold, they try to apply it to everything. Mouthbreathers out there think that public grocery stores need to be a thing these days and they haven’t even gotten the things they want.
A wealth of historical evidence that the government can’t do those things is thrown out the window. And we haven’t even gotten to the whether they really should part that the commie fucks take for granted.
I’m in the minority in that socialism/communism doesn’t even sound good on paper to me. I want to throw something at someone every time I hear that stupid line.
So… government workers should live in squalor until they can support the common person? I can get behind that.
Moar memes:
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/10/03/fall-into-memes/
TIL this is a real thing:
https://physicaleducationandwellness.mit.edu/about/pirate-certificate/
My office was next to this woman’s when I was with the Peru Tribune. She’s been following the same talking points as SiL’s Bestie, again with “Whimy & Rage!!” at all times. This one, however, is kinda witchy and plays into it. She invited me into her place once and I, perhaps not wisely, declined to. (I was with psycho-Ex at the time, when we were still flooded with early hormones. In hindsight, I wish I had another opportunity with witchy woman:
“Hex the patriarchy! “Girls will be Girls “… to the Women of the World who have experienced rape, abuse, sexual assault and misogyny We Will Unite ” We are all Jane Doe!”… . BURN IT DOWN!!! Rage Against the Patriarchy. Feel free to share your rage!”
Biggest thing I hate about “The Patriarchy” bullshit: Uh. In the historical sense, The Patriarchal masters also enslaved men who had no other choice, and those men were far, far more likely to violently die through/by the whims of their overlords. “That’s the way things were. Sucked.”
“Hush now, Ev. You speaketh too much. You’re blinded by the patriarchal power you’ve grown up in! I HEX THEE!”
Trump, obviously.
Socialism to me means
whatever I want it to mean.