For the 16th year in a row, Danger Ranger’s Post Yule Pyre took place tonight and once again dozens of Christmas Trees incinerated in a massive bonfire on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. The cops tried to stop the tree burners, by parking a K-9 unit police cruiser in front of the the main entrance to the beach and driving by issuing verbal warnings, but the crowd of post-yule pyros prevailed with their quest to clear the Christmas Tree carcases from the streets of San Francisco and give them the proper cremation that they deserve.
UPDATE 1: Andy reports that someone was arrested a when they tried to burn more Christmas trees as the cops were putting out the fire.
UPDATE 2: Here are some Post Yule Pyre photos from Brian Walsh and a bunch more from other people on Flickr.
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Police and/or park rangers arrested a fellow after he lit some more christmas trees, while the officers were trying to put out the bonfire.
I have some photos but they are grainy and a bit unsharp.
It was really dark and I was of course surprised by that.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharpshutter/348766280
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharpshutter/348766305
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharpshutter/348766332
Me , the missus and our three dogs arrived a tad late, just before ten pm and must have just missed the super-conflagration seen in some of Scott’s excellent photos.
The cops had ‘cordoned off’ the main parking area by then with a Crown Vic at each end, but left huge gaps for us to easily park and get down onto the beach.
The dogs loved the low key vibe and we wandered from fire to fire chatting with young Dubliners and a wonderful Indian family who had managed to get their non-Xmas fire fuel (looked like very dry particle board) down to the shoreline in a red four wheel drive and who win the ‘hottest fire’ competition. It burned hot and steady for the half hour we spent in its vicinity, but as I say, we missed the super-conflag. Did it really pin people up against the seawall?
Sorry to have missed Danger Ranger but I wish him a Happy New Year anyway.
Love to all and all for one. Howeird.
This is bullshit. They had no right to arrest the guy other than put up a scare technique to scare ppl off. There’s no ground to arrest anyone when the securities were there permitting tree burning and then turn around arresting people.
I was wondering, when is the X mas tree burnning for this year? ( 2008)?? i would love to add my tree to the Fire!!! :-)