Bike light theory...

[jbsegal]

So there was a theory about why bike lights are disappearing at the moment...
Burning Man is next week and shitty little raver-kiddies want blinky things to play with on the playa.

I don't know. I don't find it impossible. Reprehensible, but possible.

However, I'd like to believe that people going through what you have to go through to get out there might be better human beings than that...I don't know.

Comments

[dilletante.livejournal.com]

oh, shoot! you were using that?

:P

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

No, I disagree. For one, there aren't *that* many raver-kiddies going to Burning Man from Boston. Consider that raver kiddies are also broke; it's an expensive vacation. Also that bike lights are, frankly, the bottom of the trash heap when it comes to blinky things at Burning Man. You could buy cheaper, more interesting, more colorful, and meant to be party-blinky-things, at, like, KMart. And then, I can vouch for the general personality of the Boston rave kid: friendly, helpful, respectful towards others and their environments, creative, resourceful, working hard to stage events. (As opposed to club kid, who wouldn't be going to Burning Man.) All of these are generalizations, but all of them together make me doubt that there's some movement afoot by raver kids to cop your blinkies.

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

It does seem like something of a stretch. Too far away to cause that kind of crime wave ripple effect.

On the other hand, from a local point of view, you could really create something disturbing if you could get a few hundred of those things flashing out of sequence. :)

=J