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Will Vancouver riot?

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PapaGoose
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Do you think that the city will riot on Wednesday if the Canucks lose?

I say yes.
Jun 13 2011 11:21PM
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Kevski
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Thanks. Ugh this is ridiculous.
Jun 16 2011 2:44AM
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Lé.Skiing
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This is the second time this magnitude of a riot has happened in Van Since 94.  from what I have heard its up to 9 people confirmed Dead.   This is getting bad now.  It was funny till people started to get dead.  Now its just disappointing. 
Jun 16 2011 2:46AM
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Doug.
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Holy shit 9?
Last I heard was one.
Jun 16 2011 2:48AM
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GayWolf420
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Legit links about this? If its true, That is fucking unfortunate and horrific.
Jun 16 2011 2:49AM
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jblaski
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anyone else's live feed down? I can't watch anything right now.
Jun 16 2011 2:49AM
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Kevski
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They looted a Chapters! Chapters! What fucking moron hooligan would appreciate a book?
Jun 16 2011 2:50AM
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Kevski
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Yeah mine's down now too.
Jun 16 2011 2:52AM
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skeedle
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As someone who was downtown for the game and post riot, Vancouver was upset. It was disgraceful their actions. The police were fine. They just stood there and said "this is the VPD please remove yourselves from the area, or chemicals will be used." That lasted for about an hour or so before anything actually happened. They were letting off smoke bombs, and just telling people to leave. I was right at Georgia and Hamilton and I didn't see a single person get arrested or threatened. Just told to leave.

The people were stupid. People were throwing shit at the police. Plants, water bottles, beer bottles, you name it. People were yelling "Fuck the Police" as if it was their fault they were rioting. No, I'm sorry, but that just wasn't true. I saw some epic fights break out, cars on fire, and people running all over the place. I didn't hear anything about the Boston Fan being stabbed or pushed off the via duct, but I wouldn't have put it passed the crowd tonight.

I am so ashamed to be from this city. It was only a game...there is always next year....
Jun 16 2011 2:52AM
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Doug.
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I agree with everything you just posted.

I was really happy with how the cops dealt with the situation.
Jun 16 2011 2:54AM
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skeedle
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Me too. It was stupid downtown. It wasn't anything to be handled like this.
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Is this necessary? Why did this happen? I am just so upset right now. I don't even care that we lost anymore, just that Vancouver went from being the happiest place on Earth, to being a hell hole in a period of 5 hours....
Jun 16 2011 2:58AM
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PapaGoose
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Jun 16 2011 2:58AM
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skeedle
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Look at this place? What is this? Ugh.
Jun 16 2011 3:00AM
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wynnyk
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chances are that 90% of the anarchists are from Surrey.
Jun 16 2011 3:06AM
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wynnyk
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it was fucking insane, to say the least. can't beleive everything I saw tonight was because of a hockey game.
Jun 16 2011 3:07AM
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Lé.Skiing
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Europeans have football(Soccer)  Canadians have Hockey.   This is mainly the new generation of people that never got to experience the Riot in 94.  not a good reason it just might help explain things...  I mainly pissed cause I watch it and in my mind I'm saying...  "Well there goes all of our tax dollars..."
Jun 16 2011 3:21AM
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Phil.T
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i went to a sky train station a couple blocks from the main riot and it was safe. im truly embarrassed about being from vancouver right now.
Jun 16 2011 3:54AM
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Download-My-Apps
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Can still hear sirens now. I really hope those people who planned this get whats coming. This city has a big black eye now.
Jun 16 2011 4:11AM
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Lé.Skiing
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try to look at it this way.  attentions attention either way.  Vancouver was just on probably national news?   might be that any publicity is good publicity.  people might want to come here cause the cops were lenient for about an hour before moving up on the semi-riot.  it honestly seemed small till the cops started to fire shit though which kinda just pissed some people off.  What happens when people get pissed off? they get stubborn.  Stubborn people and people wanting to move them when they don't want to move.  Will almost always end up as a bad combination.
Jun 16 2011 4:20AM
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AOTEAROA
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ithink this shits funny as fuck. It's a game. kooks.
Jun 16 2011 4:28AM
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Phil.T
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dude i was like 5 feet from that! shit was nuts, i thought he was going to get gnarly burns!
Jun 16 2011 4:31AM
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BlackieChan
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was in the middle of most of it....fuuuu. that is all. seriously what the fuck vancouver.
Jun 16 2011 5:02AM
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zuzanna
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those people are fucking stupid.
Jun 16 2011 6:02AM
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AwR
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this guy is winning
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Jun 16 2011 9:46AM
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colleenator
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will? did.
Jun 16 2011 9:53AM
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jeremy.g
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that guy is a champ
Jun 16 2011 10:01AM
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ONTerriible
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All of these are from the National Post. You can see more here.

Jun 16 2011 10:12AM
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.Blake.
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Beat me to it. That picture is epic. The question is, did they meet at the riot or are they bf/gf? If they just met then this guy is my hero.
Jun 16 2011 10:13AM
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.frenchy
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Why would they cheer?
Jun 16 2011 10:31AM
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ShredThePowdah.
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Wow NS, way to go. Its fucking  hockey in CANADA. What are you gonna expect? Canadiens are very strong towards their hockey, Montreal does the same shit..

And to krob a while above... They know why they're rioting. jesus.

Jun 16 2011 10:35AM
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Mr.Kamu
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That's Crazy!!!!
Jun 16 2011 10:45AM
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Lord.Quasimoto
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I really like Vancouver but after seeing that shit go down it makes me angry at how stupid people are. It's all good when you have a party and people are just there to have fun but clearly that was not the case last night. You have to have nothing going on in your life to be in the middle of something like that having a good time. It's not so much funny as it is sad... sad how low people will go when given the chance.

The people that I saw looting / lighting fires all looked like fucking losers. Get a fucking life people. I usually hate police but last nigtht I wanted to be one just so I could smash some dumbass hippy kid who thinks he's a punk.

Jun 16 2011 10:51AM
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RIP_leos_shack
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Most places in the world riot because of hunger, inequality, and injustice. All it takes for Vancouver to destroy their city is a hockey game tha they deserved to lose. Good fucking job.
Jun 16 2011 10:56AM
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forum10
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haha do you know how pathetic you make canadians look by saying that?
Jun 16 2011 11:04AM
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celticsfan232
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lame way to take the loss canadians...admit it your teams suck
Jun 16 2011 11:06AM
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hockeyplayer
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LOL @ Canada looking like retards
Jun 16 2011 11:06AM
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Mr.Kamu
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I wonder if Boston riot????
Jun 16 2011 11:07AM
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celticsfan232
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no because the boston police actually know how to do their jobs...
Jun 16 2011 11:09AM
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Mr_pretzel
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Stupid americans are stupid. This happens all the time in europe and nobody gets this whipped up.

Its 95% hooligans that just want to fuck shit up. 5% deranged hockey fans. Their would have been a riot either way.
Jun 16 2011 11:11AM
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Get.Kronk
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To the people saying they boo'd during the cup presentation, they were booing bettman, as every city has done during the last 5 years. Thomas and the guy from vancouver got big cheers.
Jun 16 2011 11:12AM
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celticsfan232
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no duh bro.....
Jun 16 2011 11:14AM
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Ski_the_east01
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pretty shocking video..props to that one vanc fan trying to stop the crowd from smashing teh shit out of the store, that takes some serious stones

@ 3:15..that is absolutey disgusting that they would all jump on taht one man and kick teh living shit out of him


Jun 16 2011 11:17AM
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.frenchy
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Says Celtics fan.. obv. Bostonian

and if game 7 were in boston they would of.

Jun 16 2011 11:17AM
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celticsfan232
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Yeah they would have Im not denying that... who cares what the people oh Boston would have done they didn't lose so yeaa
Jun 16 2011 11:21AM
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Get.Kronk
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there hasn't been a major riot over sport in years in europe
Jun 16 2011 11:23AM
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Ski_the_east01
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frenchy your wrong - boston was on top of its shit last night

Mayor menino dispatched every single boston police officer and had a massive swat team WAITING for fans to pile out of bars

When the fans came pouring out of bars ready to rage they were greeted by riot fences and police directing them to all pool near Haymarket where there was a parking ban so no cars could be trashed

When all the fans pooled at Haymarket they were allowed to gather and get roudy and make noise - but they funneled everyone to an area where NOTHING could get broken

Police/Riot cops were waiting for the crowd and let them have their fun for a few hours and then dispersed them with no complications

I hated menino for cancelling teh viewing party at the TD Garden - but he did a great job in letting the crowd have its fun but causing no damage to people or the city
Jun 16 2011 11:23AM
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jason...
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copy/pasted from what I posted in the NHL thread.

I was next to the first car that got tipped, while there was still over a minute left in the game, shit just got FUCKED from there. No police presence was felt so people just did what they wanted. The 30 foot tall BMO windows took literally 20 minutes of people chucking shit at them to break, that's how little cops were in the area. They were always 1 step behind. I don't even wanna start the list of what I saw but the highlights (well really lowlights cause our city is now fucked), multiple cars getting tipped and burned, The Bay windows getting smashed and then the place getting looted, some tuxedo store's windows getting smashed, then people taking out a mannequin, putting a boston jersey on it and absolutely going to town, and riot police rushing a beating people with batons and shields. Note, i only saw the riot police ONCE in about an hour and a half span, their presence was not felt so people just went nuts. Also saw a lot of people with some gnarly bottle/glass wounds on their heads, bleeding a lot. Shit was fucked.

The thing I couldn't wrap my head around though, people were running around chanting "fuck boston" and then destroying Vancouver. Does that make sense to any of you? If you really wanted to show hatred for another city would you take it out on your own?
Jun 16 2011 11:24AM
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Mr_pretzel
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Lie. They just dont broadcast it.
Jun 16 2011 11:25AM
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celticsfan232
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yea dude
Jun 16 2011 11:30AM
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Mr_pretzel
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I take that back. I wouldnt call any resent ones major.
Jun 16 2011 11:32AM
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corona
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no man, they happen all the bloody time. A couple years ago in Syria there was a football riot that led to 25 deaths. 25! that's pretty intense. and in Argentina there have been 249 deaths from football riots in the past 80 years or so. or ghana in 2001, 125 people dead. And the latest one was only last month in Turkey. It happens all the time.
Jun 16 2011 11:42AM
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