Burning Man Pays for Extra NHP Troopers

Updated: 4:11 PM Aug 28, 2008

Burning Man organizers have contracted with the Nevada Highway Patrol to provide a dozen or more extra troopers a day through the weekend to assist motorists and help keep a remote 74-mile stretch of state highway safe between U.S. Interstate 80 and the counterculture festival.

Posted: 3:36 PM Aug 28, 2008
Reporter: Scott Sonner AP

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Posted by: john Location: San Fran on Aug 28, 2008 at 10:00 PM

Glad we are getting paid to bust these drug runners going to this so called event.

Posted by: Jack Boot Location: Reno on Aug 28, 2008 at 06:42 PM

$666 per shift the figures say. That is a bit much

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