Photos: Scenes from Burning Man 2006

Couple an unhealthy affection for Mad Max with the creative mayhem of Burning Man, and you get the Death Guild Thunderdome. Its motto: "Bringing you senseless violence since 1999." Combatants are suspended in bungee harnesses attached to a dome and encouraged to beat each other senseless with foam-covered weapons.

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