But from the pictures on the website, parts of downtown Vancouver appear to be a total mess. I'm only slightly amazed that no one was killed.
But when you look at thiese pictures, I get the feeling that a strong majority of the rioters were only casual hockey fans at best and most were street punks and other assorted dirtballs who frequent downtown Vancouver.
Comments or opinions - anyone?
Its a shame, this stuff is usually limited to NBA games.
The outcome was obvious before the series even started. The refs were giving Boston the cup.
They need to calm down and resume wrestling bears and drinking maple syrup like Justin Morneau.
They need to calm down and resume wrestling bears and drinking maple syrup like Justin Morneau.
I didn’t get to bed until after 2 AM EST, because I couldn’t tear away from the live feed.
I feel bad for the normal people in Vancouver. They are clearly disgusted and embarrassed by this, and who wouldn’t be?
If it happened in Boston, I would be angry, disgusted and mortified as well.
This gives me some impetus to read Ann Coulter’s new book “Demonic” which covers liberalism and mob mentality.
Angry Canuckistani *ping*...
This business in Vancouver is strange, since it follows of very disappointing loss in the deciding game of a best-of-seven series.
Very strange also for usually placid Canadians.
This sounds like an ideal situation for the new area denial microwave crowd control device.
No, what they need to do is arrest the people. Sentence them to a few months in prison and take their bank accounts or garnish their wages (if any of them work) or make them pay back every penny of damage they caused, plus a penalty for good measure.
It looks like they need to add Officer Fife to their police department.
“Nip it in the BUD!”
Read the Riot Act.
Order the crown to disperse.
Begin 60 second count down.
Unleash water cannon shooting fluorescent green slime mixed with skunk oil, chilled to about 33 degrees F.
It would save a lot of property damage and maybe some lives.
(Of course, the lawyers & “advocacy” groups would have a field day.)
Canadians Gone Wild! But just wait `til they find out we’ve been shooting their geese ....
I wonder if the Black Block, or other radical Left anarchist groups, are using this as an opportunity to practice tactics?
If a small percentage of fans are that upset, maybe they should pillage the player’s homes instead of downtown. /s of course
Government schooling. Anarchists = Marxists and to them destruction of property or stealing is righteous living.
Bread and circuses...then riots if the monkeys feel like it.