Chris Rock And DJ Diplo Hitch Ride With Fans To Escape Burning Man Floods

Over the weekend more than 70,000 people were stuck in the desert at the annual Burning Man festival after torrential rains turned the desert into a giant mud pit.
Comedian Chris Rock and DJ Diplo were rescued after walking five miles until they got picked up by a fan.

Thunderstorms left festival attendees stranded in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert on Saturday, the DJ was determined to show up to his Washington, D.C. show that evening — and a stranger came to both of their rescues.

“A fan offered Chris Rock and I a ride out of Burning Man in the back of a pickup,” the 44-year-old, whose real name is Thomas Wesley Pentz, captioned an Instagram video of their escape.

“I legit walked the side of the road for hours with my thumb out cuz I have a show in dc tonight and didnt want to let yall down,” he wrote, joking that all Rock, 58, “could think about was a f—king cold brew.”

Diplo concluded, “Shoutout to this guy for making the smart purchase of a truck not knowing it was for this exact moment.”

The group hitched a ride with “hippies with a van in the next town” and “negotiat[ed] a deal to give [them] a two-hour ride to the airport.”

“They didn’t believe we would walk six miles in the mud. No one believed we would get to DC for the show tonight,” he captioned a mud-stained selfie. “But God did.

Diplo wrote on his Instagram:

I legit walked the side of the road for hours with my thumb out cuz i have a show in dc tonight and didnt want to let yall down. Also shoutout to this guy for making the smart purchase of a truck not knowing it was for this exact moment ❤️

just walked 5 miles in the mud out of burning man with chris rock and a fan picked us up pic.twitter.com/0uxSXLHgY6

— diplo (@diplo) September 2, 2023

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