Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 6

Author Topic: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.  (Read 6920 times)

Enzo

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« on: June 16, 2011, 04:18:43 pm »
One article. And another.

So, as many of you are probably completely unaware, the Vancouver Canucks lost a hockey game last night. In a completely unsurprising turn of events, the city went completely apeshit. Brawling, looting, burning police cruisers, the whole shebang. This is not the first time, but was apparently worse. My sister watched the game on one of the big-screens set up downtown, had to walk around burning cop cars and bear-effigies to get home.

Just thought I'd start a topic, since this is pretty close to home for me, and some of the pictures are absolutely priceless. Example:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I think that is a mannequin leg covered in blood.

Personally, I find it embarrassing not only that this is all it takes to instigate a riot, but that it's completely unsurprising when it happens. I'm a Canucks fan, sure, I watched the game and it was terrible, but what the hell is the point of rioting? Is it sending a message? Or, more accurately, is it sending one you want to send? Seems like, for most people, it was just an excuse to stir some shit up. Thoughts on sports riots?
« Last Edit: June 16, 2011, 04:20:43 pm by kinseti »
Logged

Tilla

  • Bay Watcher
  • Slam with the best or jam with the rest
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2011, 04:20:33 pm »
The rioters were not real canucks fans. VPD Chief is implying heavily that these are known anarchists who have bought Canucks jerseys to blend into the crowd to incite violence.  Many arrested so far have been linked to events in Toronto and Montreal.
Logged

Fenrir

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Monstrous Wolf
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2011, 04:22:32 pm »
Unless they were all anarchists, that still means that there were people rioting because someone else lost a game.
Logged

Tilla

  • Bay Watcher
  • Slam with the best or jam with the rest
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2011, 04:25:26 pm »
Quote from: Fenrir on June 16, 2011, 04:22:32 pm
Unless they were all anarchists, that still means that there were people rioting because someone else lost a game.

Mob mentality + alcohol, but it was these slimeballs sneaking into our city that got it started.
Logged

Enzo

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2011, 04:33:57 pm »
I think it's a bit of a cop-out to say that the anarchists present were responsible for the riot. It's very likely they anticipated a riot, as many people did (historical precedence and everything) and decided to show up.
Logged

Max White

  • Bay Watcher
  • Still not hollowed!
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2011, 04:37:30 pm »
*Sigh*
Nice work sports fans. Protip: YOU CARE TOO MUCH. It is a game, if you get that upset about losing, then you have mental issues.

And yes, that is a blood splattered mannequin leg.

Edit: Fuck... I must be a racist anarchist. Something about this one got a giggle.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Well, back to the metal health ward for me!
« Last Edit: June 16, 2011, 04:39:43 pm by Max White »
Logged

Aqizzar

  • Bay Watcher
  • There is no 'U'.
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2011, 04:52:08 pm »
These photos are goldmines.  If you didn't know better, you'd think the whole thing was staged.  That guy is the ultimate "come at me bro" pic, because he's so goddamn into it for no good reason.
Logged
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on October 04, 2011, 05:15:14 pm
And here is where my beef pops up like a looming awkward boner.
Quote from: Toady One on December 04, 2010, 05:10:27 pm
Please amplify your relaxed states.
Quote from: PTTG??
The ancients built these quote pyramids to forever store vast quantities of rage.

Max White

  • Bay Watcher
  • Still not hollowed!
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2011, 05:00:38 pm »
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
That girl is a arsonist.
Logged

Levi

  • Bay Watcher
  • Is a fish.
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2011, 05:04:38 pm »
Hey its not all bad.  Sometimes you can find love on a battlefield.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/4958546.bin
Logged
Avid Gamer | Goldfish Enthusiast | Canadian | Professional Layabout

Aqizzar

  • Bay Watcher
  • There is no 'U'.
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2011, 05:08:32 pm »
Quote from: Levi on June 16, 2011, 05:04:38 pm
Hey its not all bad.  Sometimes you can find love on a battlefield.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/4958546.bin

That looks way too clean and properly lit to not be shopped, but I really want it to not be shopped.  That is the best makeout those two people will ever have.
Logged
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on October 04, 2011, 05:15:14 pm
And here is where my beef pops up like a looming awkward boner.
Quote from: Toady One on December 04, 2010, 05:10:27 pm
Please amplify your relaxed states.
Quote from: PTTG??
The ancients built these quote pyramids to forever store vast quantities of rage.

MetalSlimeHunt

  • Bay Watcher
  • Gerrymander Commander
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2011, 05:17:00 pm »
Oh Canada, you so crazy.
Spoiler: Dude, the storefront is already open. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Metal. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: I give him a 8.9. (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: For sore losers, they sure are enjoying themselves. (click to show/hide)

And once again we have an instance of the losing team's fans partying harder than the winning team's fans. Unless Boston is also smouldering rubble and I haven't heard about it yet.
Logged
Quote from: Thomas Paine
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Quote
No Gods, No Masters.

Tilla

  • Bay Watcher
  • Slam with the best or jam with the rest
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2011, 05:19:54 pm »
Quote from: Aqizzar on June 16, 2011, 05:08:32 pm
Quote from: Levi on June 16, 2011, 05:04:38 pm
Hey its not all bad.  Sometimes you can find love on a battlefield.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/4958546.bin

That looks way too clean and properly lit to not be shopped, but I really want it to not be shopped.  That is the best makeout those two people will ever have.
Professional photographer from Getty Images, he has been contacted and interviewed and it is totally legit - he's even showed some other angles from less skilled photographers, but he was at the right place at the right time.
Logged

Cthulhu

  • Bay Watcher
  • A squid
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2011, 05:23:56 pm »
That last picture, the lighting makes it look like those two buildings in the background are on fire.
Logged
Shoes...

Levi

  • Bay Watcher
  • Is a fish.
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2011, 05:29:13 pm »
I actually work a few blocks from where that all happened, but I was nowhere near there when the riots were happening.
Logged
Avid Gamer | Goldfish Enthusiast | Canadian | Professional Layabout

Virex

  • Bay Watcher
  • Subjects interest attracted. Annalyses pending...
    • View Profile
Re: Canucks lose cup, Vancouver reduced to smouldering rubble.
« Reply #14 on: June 16, 2011, 05:33:43 pm »
First off, welcome to the civilized world.


Secondly: Hockey? I thought hooligans were something specific to soccer?


Thirdly: What's wrong with employing a little bit of second-amendment solution to your neighbors ever so often?
Logged
Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 6
« previous next »