Hockey team loses match => break into and steal stuff from electronics store. |
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Riots erupt in Vancouver after Canucks loss - British Columbia - CBC News |
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Last edited by GavinGill; 06-17-2011 at 01:47 AM.
Hockey team loses match => break into and steal stuff from electronics store. |
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There were also several fires set throughout the city but there were too many to (efficiently) handle so they only put out the ones that were an immediate danger to the public. A couple cars were set ablaze, two of them being squad cars, and a couple more were trashed. |
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Last edited by GavinGill; 06-17-2011 at 02:19 AM.
Everything is quiet here |
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I would expect as much from a bunch of stupid, hairy monkeys. |
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This is one of the most fucking idiotic things I've heard about today. Really. People have to get a life and stop putting all their livelihood (and sanity) into a team, specifically one that lost the game FAIR AND SQUARE. |
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Yeah, if the other team participated in foul play then obviously the riots would have been justified. |
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If only we could organize and destroy things for reasons other than sports. |
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Think that's bad? Montreal riots when it WINS the Stanley Cup... |
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Exactly how I feel about football over here. Some people are extremely loyal to their team and devote their lives to supporting the team and the sport. Fair enough. If that's how they want to live, that's their choice. But seriously, starting fights, riots and all other kinds of shit because of a fucking game? It's just completely insane. I've never really been interested in any kind of sport, but even if I was, I wouldn't be so stupid as to do this kind of stuff just because my team lost. |
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I hope everyone realizes that this isn't just about hockey. Sports are used by many as an escape from the realities of the world and their day to day existence. The world is spinning out of control, and for many, the bread and circus bullshit they are fed through their televisions is the only way they can escape and feel normal. When that world does not go the way they want it to, they can't turn around, forget about it, and focus their attention on the real world around them, because that is even worse. This causes a severe mental breakdown that can only end with a massive release of the pent up negative energy, which is what causes this kind of rioting. |
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If it makes any difference, it's been noted that there were talks of people planning to 1up the '94 riot before the game even started. |
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Art
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An awesome picture from the riots: |
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Last edited by Saturos; 06-20-2011 at 01:06 AM.
Go bruins |
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I was in Boston when the Bruins won the Stanley cup. There was .. a hell of a lot of rioting and getting drunk. A motorcade of (this is not an exaggerated number) 200 police motorcycles zoomed off in pairs of 2 an hour or two before the ending of the game. I'm guessing they were going down to the Quincy Market area because I heard everything started closing down there because things were getting so rowdy. They also showed footage of crowds of people rocking buses and cars back and forth. We made sure to leave before the parade. |
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Last edited by Jeff777; 06-20-2011 at 01:40 AM.
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I didn't know you were in Surrey! I'm in Richmond. |
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I used to live in the Ohio State U. neighborhood of Columbus, where for a long time every OSU/Michigan game was a guaranteed riot, win or lose. It had less to do with underlying pressures, I think, than the students just thinking they could get away with it. Who knows what tipped off the first riot, but once it was on the books, it was part of the culture. |
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And you don't think that a ubiquitous desire to riot under any pretenses doesn't have deeper sociological implications? |
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Art
The ability to happily respond to any adversity is the divine.
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Teenagers? These sorts of riots are typically perpetrated by college students and grown working class men. |
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Art
The ability to happily respond to any adversity is the divine.
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Ima guess at... people are idiots? |
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Meh.. having lived in Vancouver and surrounding areas for many years, gotta say that I'm not surprised. The hockey sheeple there subscribe to the mania and mob mentality way too easily. If aliens ever wanted to create an army of mindless drones to do there bidding, the Lower Mainland would be their first stop |
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