Aww sad day, Texas icon, and fellow tall guy caught on fire at the State Fair of Texas today

 

 

Wonder how that happened. Probably some out of stater set it on fire.

 

I know they deep fry everything at a State Fair, but this is getting ridiculous......

 

My mom took the first pic, she was down there, she said the fire started at the neck, probably electrical fire where the motorized jaw is housed.

 

Is this the Texas version of Burning Man?

 

I thought that at first. I was wondering how safe is it to be burning something so close to the public and structures....

nice smoke output, but must be a bummer for folks who grew up looking at it.

 

Everything's always bigger in Texas

 

Latest report they took him down and carried him away in the bag that he gets stored in over the non fair season months

 

body bag poor Tex

 

Maybe next year he'll be replaced by "Big Mex" to reflect the growing Hispanic population in the State of Texas.......

 

Betcha he was flamin a great big doobie!!!!

He probably didn't have time to remove the seeds and this is the result of a 'seed pop'.

Why do you think they call it dope!!!!

Wonder if they found any charred illegal immigrent remains?

He could have been a 'Trojan House' and the occupants were bendin up some taco's.

 

I heard NPR report that he will be rebuilt before next year. From what I've heard, he was an important feature of the State Fair.

Sometimes, you just need things that are "fun", even if they aren't too practical.

- Jack

 

here's the Wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tex

 

RIP in Big Tex