Posted on 06/15/2011 11:10:34 PM PDT by Dave346
Unhappy Vancouver Canucks fans are rioting in downtown Vancouver, and people are looting merchandise from The Bay and London Drugs.
Young people unhappy about the Canucks' loss to the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final broke windows at The Bay on Georgia Street and rioters were looting merchandise from the store from the Seymour Street side.
Huge crowds gathered around the London Drugs location on Granville Street as people trashed the inside of the store and made off with stolen goods.
Rioters danced around a burning van outside the store, tossing bottles into the blaze to create small explosions. A BMW was set on fire nearby, and an apparently drunken man jumped straight into the flames, falling back seemingly unscathed.
The scene downtown bears unsettling similarities to the 1994 riots, when drunken Vancouver fans took to the streets after a Game 7 loss to the New York Rangers.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctvbc.ctv.ca ...
The commissioner is American and no it doesn’t happen at every venue (it does happen in Detroit).
Just imagine the carnage if they had won!
“This seems awfully non-Canadian. Eh?”
I think most hockey fans thought Vancouver would riot, they did it before (Montreal riots too).
Canadians, by their very nature, are a violent bunch. They and Australians come from penal stock... untrustworthy.
LOL, Steve Nash is a Canadian j*ck*ss who’s more than happy to lecture Americans about gay marriage and immigration. That leftwing moral high horse doesn’t support rioting!? Who knew!
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