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Win or lose, will there be a riot after the final Stanley Cup game in Vancouver?

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silverpig said:
Awesome.

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that can't be real LV shit for sale. their purses run into the thousands.
 
Imp said:
Why can't the mayor and other people just accept/admit that they have pricks in their city?

The hell is this "vandals" and "anarchists", just a "few bad people". Some people with covered faces, but a lot of regular looking idiots who did the deed.
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There are several kinds of people:

1. People who brought ski masks and bottles of gasoline down before the game started.
2. People who wouldn't have done anything, but joined in once it started.
3. People who did nothing themselves, but cheered on the rioters.
4. People who did nothing and just watched.
5. People who tried to stop the rioters.
6. People who just went home.

The number of people in each group increases as you go down the list. The sad thing is, without group 1, you don't have a riot at all.
 
silverpig said:
Why not? If you stole it from a store downtown the night before...
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If you don't mind, will you please let this thread know if anyone is arrested from internet fallout? I am curious if VPD will go after people based on facebook posts, selling looted goods, and youtube videos. Since you are in Vancouver, I am assuming you will hear about it first. Thanks.

I know some people are saying they won't travel to Vancouver now, but I think that is a little overboard. I will still make my yearly pilgrimage to Granville Island, Gastown, Stanley Park, Robson Street, YVR, etc. Great town.
 
davmat787 said:
If you don't mind, will you please let this thread know if anyone is arrested from internet fallout? I am curious if VPD will go after people based on facebook posts, selling looted goods, and youtube videos. Since you are in Vancouver, I am assuming you will hear about it first. Thanks.

I know some people are saying they won't travel to Vancouver now, but I think that is a little overboard. I will still make my yearly pilgrimage to Granville Island, Gastown, Stanley Park, Robson Street, YVR, etc. Great town.
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Yeah. VPD twitter is asking all that have pictures of the looting etc, to send them in.
 
davmat787 said:
If you don't mind, will you please let this thread know if anyone is arrested from internet fallout? I am curious if VPD will go after people based on facebook posts, selling looted goods, and youtube videos. Since you are in Vancouver, I am assuming you will hear about it first. Thanks.

I know some people are saying they won't travel to Vancouver now, but I think that is a little overboard. I will still make my yearly pilgrimage to Granville Island, Gastown, Stanley Park, Robson Street, YVR, etc. Great town.
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People who say that are retarded. I still feel safe walking down even the worst streets in this city. It's a WONDERFUL, if expensive, city to live in and I'm proud to be a citizen of it, even if I was ashamed yesterday. Spend the summer here and you will see why people fall in love with this city for life!!
 
Locut0s said:
People who say that are retarded. I still feel safe walking down even the worst streets in this city. It's a WONDERFUL, if expensive, city to live in and I'm proud to be a citizen of it, even if I was ashamed yesterday. Spend the summer here and you will see why people fall in love with this city for life!!
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As ashamed as I was yesterday, I was equally proud today when all those volunteers cleaned the streets up by noon. Washed the walls, swept up the sidewalks, re-painted the garbage cans...
 
davmat787 said:
If you don't mind, will you please let this thread know if anyone is arrested from internet fallout? I am curious if VPD will go after people based on facebook posts, selling looted goods, and youtube videos. Since you are in Vancouver, I am assuming you will hear about it first. Thanks.

I know some people are saying they won't travel to Vancouver now, but I think that is a little overboard. I will still make my yearly pilgrimage to Granville Island, Gastown, Stanley Park, Robson Street, YVR, etc. Great town.
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The asian kid with the hockey stick doing the sparta thing got arrested today.

link to ownage

He was in the air cadets and is a high school student. His CO got an email and dude got arrested in class today.
 
Pack/mob mentality. These people got caught up in it and didn't notice/care that they were being filmed because they lost the ability to think beyond the immediate, a very costly mistake they'll pay for.
 
Sometimes I love the social media world we live in. Most of these morons are being burned and losing chances their life COULD have had. Let's see someone get accepted into a university with rioting on their app. You can't delete them interwebs you know.
 
NFS4 said:
Sad to say it, but you're right 🙁

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This riot is an interesting lesson in not judging things that have been taken out of context.

See this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ5FVuRXHtA&feature=player_embedded
Looks like the guy in the hat is being accosted by a drunk who is looking for a fight. Guy in hat gets away only to be sucker punched and knocked out.

You can see the same drunk guy in another video where it appears that he is participating in flipping over a van:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03LVRkVAzpw

Rewind to a few minutes before the first video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWLqLeRv5sw&feature=player_embedded

The guy in the hat was smashing up an overturned car, and the drunk guy (around 2 minutes in) is attempting to stop the rioters.

With that context, when you re-watch the second video it is apparent that he is trying to prevent the van from being flipped.

I have a lot of respect for how some Vancouverites responded during the riot, and how very many responded after the riot. I highly doubt that would happen in any of the major cities I live near. It might happen in some of the smaller American cities, but know knows.

I also love how technology has enabled thousands of people to document this kind of stuff as it happens so the criminals can be caught and punished. Crowdsourced crimefighting.



Edit: I don't think anyone will actually LEARN a lesson about judging things out of context here. We see this stuff happen all the time here - someone posts a local news report about some outrageous event, outrage ensues, then more details come out that completely change the story. We never learn.



Edit2: Semi-related story (involves sports and car destruction). I went to a small NAIA college where sports didn't really matter. Every year before our game against our "rivals" from 30 minutes down the road, we had a sort of joint rally/cookout thing. For this event they would get two cars from a scrap yard which were stripped of engine parts but otherwise intact. Students from each school would destroy one of the cars. Unfortunately for one student who lived in a dorm near the football stadium and drove a crappy old car, they mistook his car for one of the cars to be destroyed.
 
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mugs: yup. There's a picture of a fairly ripped guy wearing a muscle shirt with a baseball bat outside a store texting on his phone, and a girl standing beside him is giving the picture taker the finger. It looks like the dude is out there to cause shit, but he was guarding his dad's store, making sure nothing happened to it.
 
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