The Veg originally came to Burning Man in 97 & was subsequently banned for it's owner's terroristic behavior.
Shredding shit with the jag steel at the end of the spinning fire tube, setting stuff on fire & other chaos.
Somehow, Jim talked Larry Harvey into letting him bring the Veg back in 2001. Jim promised to behave, but Jim
neglected to mention one teensy little modification he had just made...he had replaced the original 25' propane
flamethrower with a horizontal version of Bertha. You can see the 4' hose hanging off the back of the Veg that goes
to the tank. Holy shit.

Our entire camp pushed the Veg out onto the open playa late one night (forgot to calculate in the extra
weight of all that damn fuel, eh Jim - *you* try pedaling it). I was one of the few folks who was sober, so
Jim put me in charge of perimiter...aka, keeping people out of the way. Jim had never fired the cannons
horizontally, so we had no idea how far it would go. We set the first perimiter at 250 feet deep and 100' wide.

The problem with working perimiter is trying to keep non-sober people to not walk through an area just
because you 'asked them not to'. After 20 frustrating minutes of useless "hi we need you to stand back over there"
, I discovered the right way to get people out of the way was "so you know the cannons that went off at the Burn?
Well, this is the same guy, but he turned this one horizontal. It's going to go that way, so if you want to go
stand back over there, we're going to fire them off in about 10 minutes."

Of course, there is always that 1% contingency who has to get in your face & tromp straight through just
to make a point. One guy was exceptionally difficult, got in my face, told me to fuck off & stomped out into
the blast area in a righteous huff. So, I radioed the situation up to Jim & asked for a tiny little warning toot
to get this fellow's attention. Power truly does corrupt...heh heh heh