A grandmother is facing tens of thousands of dollars in fines after she was busted in a sting operation this weekend for giving revelers rides to the annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
Susie Holland, 61, thought that she would offer a helping hand and make a little extra cash on the side by offering car rides to the festival-goers, also known as “Burners,” this year, according to a report.
But when she arrived to pick up the Burners at a location they’d agreed upon while speaking online, she was immediately surrounded by the Nevada Transportation Authority.
“When I pulled in … they just swooped up on me in three undercover Ford Explorers,” Holland told the Reno Gazette Journal . “They were coming at me so fast, so hard and so intensely, I was like, what is happening right now?”
Holland posted a Craigslist ad three weeks ago offering rides to the event, which draws up to 80,000 people annually.