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Looting breaks out as riots intensify in Vancouver
CTV news ^ | Wednesday Jun. 15, 2011 10:35 PM PT | Bethany Lindsay

Posted on 06/15/2011 11:10:34 PM PDT by Dave346

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1 posted on 06/15/2011 11:10:37 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: Dave346; Slings and Arrows; null and void
people trashed the inside of the store and made off with stolen goods.

Did they have to climb over a fence?

2 posted on 06/15/2011 11:17:36 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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Islanders fans didn’t riot after their abysmal first half of the 2010-2011 season. We wanted Scott Gordon gone, but Nassau and Uniondale are still there, unscathed.


3 posted on 06/15/2011 11:18:39 PM PDT by wastedyears (SEAL SIX makes me proud to have been playing SOCOM since 2003.)
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Sheeseh. I just to party on Granville all the time in my younger days on weekend trips up there for concerts and clubs.
These clowns need to get a life. Talk about taking sports way to seriously.


4 posted on 06/15/2011 11:18:51 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Dave346

The Vancouver fans were booing loudly all through the post game Stanley Cup presentation ceremony.


5 posted on 06/15/2011 11:23:50 PM PDT by csense
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This is mostly the work of anarchists, and possibly a few ROP-types. And yes, some drunken Canucks fans.
6 posted on 06/15/2011 11:24:09 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (RINO's are more interested in defeating conservatives than they are in defeating Marxists.)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican
These clowns need to get a life.

As I understand it, Vancouver is very liberal so this type of feral behavior is quite typical of what leftists do. It's not too far removed from what happened a few months ago with the union thugs and goons in Madison, Wisconsin.

7 posted on 06/15/2011 11:26:19 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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Live feed...police line-up...quite the force.

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110615/bc_stanley_cup_riot_110615/20110615?hub=BritishColumbiaHome


8 posted on 06/15/2011 11:29:10 PM PDT by caww
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Poor people. Their team really did choke on a big one.


9 posted on 06/15/2011 11:29:55 PM PDT by dinoparty
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Did you see the cop with the Ar-15? These cops aren’t messing around with this crowd.


10 posted on 06/15/2011 11:31:55 PM PDT by caww
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To: csense

That happens every year regardless of venue. The boos are
for the most despised commissioner in sports history, Gary Bettman.


11 posted on 06/15/2011 11:36:00 PM PDT by rfp1234
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This seems awfully non-Canadian. Eh?


12 posted on 06/15/2011 11:36:07 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Tired of being seen as idiots, the American people went to the polls in 2008 and removed all doubt.)
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Did you see the cop with the Ar-15? These cops aren’t messing around with this crowd.

Yes, I've been transfixed by the live stream since first posted here on FR (and praying fervently we don't have anything like this happen here in Dallas with the NBA Championship parade later today, since out inner city has its quota of thugs and leftists).

Just as interesting are the comments on the CTV webpage such as:

This is one of those few moments in time where you can actually enjoy some police brutality as opposed to be disgusted by it.

I don't think I have ever ever been so embarassed to be a Canadian....have always been proud...not so much tonight....so sad....so Lord of the Flies it is scary.....be responsible for YOUR ACTIONS!!

Leave senseless rioting to America. People getting hurt cause of a GAME, I wouldn't put us above that but I would expect better from Canada.

While I take no joy whatsoever in the Vancouver riots, it's the expected outcome of a once-proud nation that has enacted various forms of Socialism through the years. That last comment that I quoted is characteristic of a hateful, petulant leftist mindset.

13 posted on 06/15/2011 11:43:48 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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I think Vancouver is very tolerant of drugs and prostitution.....it has a gang problem as well...

but lets face it....the more we have mob violence, the more likely regular joes will be in there to get "theirs"....like pet dogs that start running together in the country....once their together they become a pack.

14 posted on 06/15/2011 11:45:00 PM PDT by cherry
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I see. Thanks for explaining it. I haven’t followed Hockey since the early seventies, when I was a teenager. It’s been a long time....


15 posted on 06/15/2011 11:46:55 PM PDT by csense
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To: re_nortex

Canadians have always had an anti-American mindset. I live near the Ontario border and this is nothing new. But I have to laugh when they show they are just as human and not above that.


16 posted on 06/15/2011 11:47:26 PM PDT by mrspeelwerneeded (Palin 2012)
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Crowds not moving though officers have moved in...some in the crowd with fencing going up against the police...


17 posted on 06/15/2011 11:48:52 PM PDT by caww
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I remember seeing an ep. of World’s Wildest Police Videos showing the post-S.C. Canucks loss and what happened in Vanc. I’d like to hope that many most in that area aren’t like this but there are what Boston Mayor Menino calls “a few
knuckleheads”.

—Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait once talked about how people riot after a sports championship. “I saw a guy turn a car upside down. He looked at me sheepishly and said, ‘(chuckle)
‘Niners”...


Cars Set On Fire In Vancouver Following Game 7 Loss

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/06/15/cars-set-on-fire-in-vancouver-following-game-7-loss/

>>VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Angry, drunken revelers ran wild Wednesday night after the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-0 loss to Boston in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, setting cars and garbage cans ablaze, smashing windows, showering giant TV screens with beer bottles and dancing atop overturned vehicles.
“It’s terrible,” Canucks captain Henrik Sedin said, shaking his head. “This city and province has a lot to be proud of, the team we have and the guys we have in here. It’s too bad.”

>>NBA star Steve Nash, from Vancouver and the brother-in-law of Canucks forward Manny Malhotra, sent a Twitter message imploring the fans to stop the violence. “We’re a great city and have a lot of class. Our team is great and our championship will come. Soon,” Nash wrote.
There were no immediate indications of injuries, although images were shown on television of at least one woman mopping blood from her forehead.


18 posted on 06/15/2011 11:51:05 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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It is riveting seeing some of them absolutely defiant. Taunting the police...some aggressively. Praying these thugs are identified and arrested.
19 posted on 06/15/2011 11:51:52 PM PDT by caww
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To: raccoonradio
I also remember riots breaking out in Oakland when they _lost_ a Super Bowl or something.

See what happens when your team loses the Stanley Cup?

20 posted on 06/15/2011 11:52:36 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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