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bigmacbear ([personal profile] bigmacbear) wrote2011-06-15 09:31 pm
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Vancouver is going apeshit

Well, the Canucks have lost the Stanley Cup, and Vancouver is going apeshit. Watching the coverage on the CBC, I've seen at least three vehicles and a bunch of trash cans go up in flames. As I type, they have just overturned a police car and are jumping on it. Tear gas is being deployed and one of the reporters is having difficulty speaking because of it. One dude has been taunting the cops for some time and getting whacked on the knees with a baton. There has been looting at the Bay (Hudson's Bay Co. department store).

As [livejournal.com profile] gmjambear pointed out, this is over a hockey game. Not police shooting an innocent man to death, not a civil-rights protest, just a hockey game. "What is this, Detroit?" I responded, "Detroit would have done this if they won."
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[identity profile] altf4ljdrama.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
My sentiments exactly!

[identity profile] kevynjacobs.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Not a proud day to be Canadian. :-(

[identity profile] detailbear.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It's tribalism, hooliganism, intoxication and a black mark on Vancouver, BC and Canada. It is also a couple of thousand people out of 2.1 million. Still disgusting and I when I first heard, I thought that anyone with damaged property should just bill the team, although I'm beginning to think it should maybe be the city paying as well.
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