riots.

[koishii_hime]

oh vancouver. :( i love you the most. you are my city, and i could not imagine living anywhere else.

but when shit goes down, i turn from being proud at how classy fans were, cheering on their team
for the amazing season and chanting after the game ended, to being so, so ashasmed and disappointed.

maybe a small riot. but looting, setting cars, stores

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[chiiae]

The sad news is, people (not even fans of hockey) were probably only coming down to start this sort of shit no matter what the outcome of the game. Add the drunk idiots who are upset over the game and voila. A huge, ugly mess...

Now there's the idiots posting FB pictures. Apparently this one guy had a status of the shit he was doing dtwn, someone caught it and posted it up on one of the FB groups aimed to catch the jackasses. Sadly an old friends sister posting up pictures of her on top of one of the overturned cars and has viewing of photos avail. to friends of friends...wasn't impressed to see that.

[chiiae]

There hasn't been any official deaths, has there? I keep hearing random people comment saying 1-9 people died, but nothing on the news that I've seen to actually confirm this.

[koishii_hime]

:C yeah. apparently some anarchist group had planning to start some of the stupider stunts and some drunken monkeys just got dragged into it.

anddd yeah. i'm kind of glad that some people are going to have to live with the consequences of what they did but. i don't know if they deserve all that outrageous hate. yeah they did something stupid, and i think they will regret it, so no need to be that vicious. :C

[chiiae]

Yea, I am kind of glad that it just wasn't the hockey fans...but still :/ We have too many idiots who will riot for anything.

Def not all the outrageous hate, but definitely fines and returning stolen property. They showed a small store owner and he looked just heartbroken and ready to cry at what happened to his store. It was so sad!

It's just terrible that Bruins fans were injured and the Bruins team had to be escorted out. There's 22 Canadians on that team, one even originally from Vancouver...

[jedinic]

I am horrified. It's just... that's NOT the Vancouver that I know and love! :( :( :(

[koishii_hime]

;A; exactly. *clings to you*

[theotherqueen]

I was so disappointed to watch all of that. I'm not from Vancouver, but both my sisters moved there and I've visited enough that it's like a second home to me and it was just so sad to see. As much as we all know BC fans are sore losers (especially Lions!) there's no excuse for what happened. I think a lot of it would have happened regardless though, a man said he brought his car down just for the purpose of torching so win or lose, there would have been riots. Probably on a smaller scale though.

I hadn't heard about them pushing a Bruin fan off of the overpass, that is horrible. I hope he's all right. Have there been any official deaths? As far as I have heard, there hasn't been, and I can only pray it stays that way!

Come on Vancouver, you can do better! And the sad thing is, I'm guessing some of those people aren't even from Vancouver.

[koishii_hime]

:C Yeah. I think a lot of it was, because there was so much footage about oh no will there be a riot like '94, a lot of people actually PLANNED it. Some guy actually brought his car down with the intention of torching it? I don't even know.

But no official deaths yet, I think! So crossing my fingers.

And I do think a lot of people kind of, just came from nowhere / weren't hockey fans at all and just wanted to stir shit. But at least the GOOD fans did a spectacular job of cleaning up most of the mess this morning! 8D

[lovespiral]

:/ how terrible. sometimes, people just really suck.

[koishii_hime]

:C REALLY. A LOT. Sigh. But luckily there are non-sucky people who can hopefully make up for that.

[enchanted_jae]

I was sorry to see Vancouver lose, and even more sorry to hear of the idiotic behavior of some people afterward. They have no business calling themselves 'fans'.

[koishii_hime]

:C My thoughts exactly. A lot of the people starting the riot weren't fans, nor actual Vancourites. It just rioting for the sake of stirring up trouble and trying to get free stuff. Shameful.