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'That's our boy': Aussie mom identifies son in Vancouver riot kiss
seattle pi ^ | June 17, 2011 | Scott Sunde

Posted on 06/17/2011 9:33:20 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man

Now we can attach names to the world's most famous make-out artists.

Among the images of the Vancouver hockey riots was a photo of a couple locked in passion, on the pavement amid the broken glass, the police and tear gas.

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Family members of Scott Jones have identified their brother and son. They say he is working in Vancouver as a bartender and stand-up comic and that the young woman is his girlfriend, Canadian Alex Thomas.

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"They were between the riot police and the rioters, and the riot police were actually charging forward, and Alex got knocked by a [police] shield and fell to the ground," Brett Jones, Scott's father told CBC News. "[Scott] was comforting her and gave her a kiss to say, 'It's going to be OK,' and the photographer just took the shot at that moment."

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It reported that at Jones' mother "Megan Jones, was shocked to spot her son lying in the middle of the street

" 'It is something he would do, that's our boy. He has always lived in his own world, he's special like that. He doesn't always connect with what going on around him.

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" 'I'd have to have my house flooded to get on the news, but he just has to kiss a beautiful girl,' she said."

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...


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To: rlmorel

>I have heard this was completely and totally staged with lighting, tripods and so on.<

It is so perfect that I would not be surprised. As I looked at the picture I thought it could be a still from a movie. The picture is just too good in too many ways. It evokes an emotional response which is, for me, a major component of a great picture. Actually, several emotional responses. It also forces me to study the picture. Another quality of a great shot.

And no, I don’t mean studying her butt.


21 posted on 06/17/2011 10:05:41 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RobRoy

That was my first thought when I saw it as well...narrow depth of field, lighting just right, riot gear cop in the foreground...it just seems like a composition to me, to tell a story.

Not a picture taken with a cellphone, that is for sure. And now that I think of it (what I saw from my previous post) I did see a guy with a camera, long focal length lens and tripod walking around. I didn’t put the two of them together, but I remember thinking it was odd to see a guy with that setup collapsing the tripod and walking somewhere else with it.


22 posted on 06/17/2011 10:06:12 AM PDT by rlmorel (Sometimes, the enemy of our enemy is our friend. But not always.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Unfortunately.


23 posted on 06/17/2011 10:07:25 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

We had to cancel our trip to Egypt in January.Guess where
we’re going in two weeks instead?


24 posted on 06/17/2011 10:07:43 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

>>...bad-toothed polacks?<<

Depends. What shade of brown, specifically. Is it a sandy color, or more of a rotting oak shade?


25 posted on 06/17/2011 10:07:56 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Moose4

The more I read about this and analyze the photo, the more I am being nudged into the “this was staged” camp.


26 posted on 06/17/2011 10:12:30 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RobRoy
Hey, I like the photo. Who wouldn't? I like it better than this screenshot I took of my screen as I watched...


27 posted on 06/17/2011 10:15:00 AM PDT by rlmorel (Sometimes, the enemy of our enemy is our friend. But not always.)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

28 posted on 06/17/2011 10:16:15 AM PDT by frithguild
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To: Dr. Ursus

Bummer. My wife and I spent a week there a few years ago, and it was fun, but a real liberal fever swamp, though. As bad as Cambridge, MA, it seemed.

Well, okay. No. That goes too far. Cambridge, MA, Berkeley, CA, Ithaca, NY and Madison, WI are heads above the crowd for liberal insanity.


29 posted on 06/17/2011 10:17:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (Sometimes, the enemy of our enemy is our friend. But not always.)
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To: RobRoy

I aim to please - I believe I still have at least one of each flavor left...


30 posted on 06/17/2011 10:17:34 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: numberonepal

I think this qualifies for a Hockey Hag Hottie ping


31 posted on 06/17/2011 10:17:36 AM PDT by frithguild
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To: rlmorel

Har - I just meant a passionate kiss - my SO would not appreciate anything more.


32 posted on 06/17/2011 10:17:59 AM PDT by Senator Pardek ( It might be hard for some of the younger Freepers to believe, but in 1982)
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To: rlmorel
I did not get to bed until after 0200. I literally could not stop watching.

I found the same thing happened to me. I didn't get to bed until after 0300. I couldn't stop watching it, I even tried to figure out what the attraction was during it (as I saw the clock on my computer getting later and later). I came up with two basic answers:

1. Was interested in seeing what the police would actually do. Interested in their approach and strategy. I was totally dependent on the one feed in saw in a thread (I think it was CTV) and what they showed "live" and on tape, but my assessment was that they waited far too long to make their moves to end the rioting (far too much damage was allowed to occur and potentially dangerous circumstances were allowed to exist too long). JMO. The CTV live feed went down just as the police were attempting to force the one of the larger crowds to disperse (South?) by closing off 3 other directions. I actually don't know how that tactic ended up playing out.
2. Was interested in seeing how the crowd of rioters (and what their composition was) would behave and what type of tactics they were using. It seemed to me that there was a core group of instigators (probably self-styled "anarchists") that cleverly made use of a large crowd of disappointed, inebriated people that were already out on the streets for many hours. From what I saw these instigators (that had absolutely no interest in the actual hockey game) were the ones that would start the trouble in various locations (e.g., breaking windows, looting, torching cars/garbage) and let the main crowd either join in actively or just cheer them on. I suspect that they succeeded in getting some number of the other drunken spectators to follow in a monkey see-monkey do manner.

I also realized that if I didn't think that there is a fair chance of that type of public rioting coming to the US soon, I probably wouldn't have bothered watching so long. (At my age getting less than 4 hours of sleep really gives me that "drag @ss" feeling all day!) I also figured that culturally those folks in urban Western CA were probably a good example of what we will see here (except of course in the US we can expect to see a more "diverse" group of rioters).

(If you've thought about it, I'd be interested in your assessment of why you found yourself glued to the live feed for so long.)

33 posted on 06/17/2011 10:19:25 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: frithguild

DING DING DING! What do we have for her, Johnny?"

LOL, you win the award for first "Slapshot" posting I have seen since the end of the series...:)

34 posted on 06/17/2011 10:19:29 AM PDT by rlmorel (Sometimes, the enemy of our enemy is our friend. But not always.)
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To: rlmorel
DING DING DING! What do we have for her, Johnny?"

How about a little sex with your violence Bob!

35 posted on 06/17/2011 10:21:33 AM PDT by frithguild
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To: rlmorel

The photo in your post brings up something else I noticed in the picture: I bet you could count on one hand the number of females in that crowd that are not wearing pants.


36 posted on 06/17/2011 10:23:20 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: frithguild

Slapshot?


37 posted on 06/17/2011 10:25:13 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Tex-Con-Man; sit-rep; humblegunner; Eaker; Squantos; shibumi; Salamander; Allegra

Can’t see the face, but from this angle I think I can tentatively decree the woman “not guilty.”


38 posted on 06/17/2011 10:30:03 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Too many anti-romantic cynics around here...


39 posted on 06/17/2011 10:30:03 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Larry Lucido

Don’t be so shallow.

Her willingness under pressure deserves points as well.


40 posted on 06/17/2011 10:32:41 AM PDT by humblegunner
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