Requests for ice cream and flush toilets at Nevada's Burning Man stirs firestorm

The demands drew the ire of two U.S. lawmakers from Nevada who described the requests, which also included a standing supply of ice cream, as excessive. Burning Man, named for the burning of a wooden effigy that marks the climax of the week-long festival of art and free expression, brings nearly 70,000 people to the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada and adds an estimated $35 million to the local economy each year. This year, the bureau asked for a so-called Blue Pit lodging facility that woul