This year, a reveler took self-expression a little further than perhaps festival organizers intended. Paul Addis, 35, of San Francisco, at a booking in Lovelock, Nevada, on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Addis was arrested after allegedly burning the namesake effigy of the Burning Man counterculture festival four days early.

Construction is underway to rebuild "the Man" in time for its traditional burning.

"This is not the first time 'the Man' has required rebuilding," organizers said in statement. "In 1990, [he was] accidentally cut up with a chain saw while in storage prior to the event. It was fully rebuilt in time to be transported to the desert."