Van Riot

[MXHockey]

Breaking News...........

Identities of 3000+ Vancouver rioters released:

256 H.Sedins
238 D.Sedins
741 Keslers
369 Burrows'
186 Bieksas
53 Bure's
198 Lindens
3 Ballards
977 Luongos
158 Edlers
289 Erhoffs
23 Smyls
192 Salos
40 Bertuzzis

and

117 Naslunds



Sorry for poking fun at such a tragic night for the city, but this thread needed a bit of humor.......

Cheers.

[MXHockey]

this is even worse...a couple guys try to reason with the looting mob and dissuade them from ruining their city (I've heard the bald dude owns the store in question, but thats unconfirmed) and they get attacked and beaten by the ********...the confrontation starts at about 2:50

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=62b_1308231237

if you recognize any of these jackwads, please report them to the police, I'd like nothing more than to see them do a couple years hard time

That is one brave guy to stand alone like that. Hopefully he wasn't hurt too badly.

[Riverboat Danglers]

ya i found like 4 or 5 blogs/pages pop up last night to try and help the police. i think were going see a lot of arrests in the next few days and a lot of these idiots get charged. to bad its times like these we didnt have the death sentence in canada

[doulos]

Send these guys off to countries where there are reasons to riot.

[sexymountain]

Just saying people got a lot , and i mean A LOT of free expensive shit last night. I truly feel a few select and these are the stupidest people will be arrested with minor charges put against them. But all in all, this was gonna happen and the cops clearly werent interested in putting a absolute stop to this right away. In a weeks time this will be old news.

[PrairieDog]

That is one brave guy to stand alone like that. Hopefully he wasn't hurt too badly.

That guy has guts - I would honestly like to shake his hand. In the face of thousands of these people, two guys stand in front of the windows fending people off, only to be overcome by the sheer numbers.

I was very disturbed by this video...the people just going along like its normal for teen girls and thugs with 70 IQ's to kick in windows and beat a man in the street.

An absolute disgrace. People wonder why I am a misanthrope.

[ross10019]

ya to bad its times like these we didnt have the death sentence in canada

Whoah there... I am anti-rioter as much as the next guy, but...

[ross10019]

Breaking News...........

Identities of 3000+ Vancouver rioters released:

256 H.Sedins
238 D.Sedins
741 Keslers
369 Burrows'
186 Bieksas
53 Bure's
198 Lindens
3 Ballards
977 Luongos
158 Edlers
289 Erhoffs
23 Smyls
192 Salos
40 Bertuzzis

and

117 Naslunds



Sorry for poking fun at such a tragic night for the city, but this thread needed a bit of humor.......

Cheers.

I think more accurate would be 6,595 Bertuzzi jerseys...

[ross10019]

That dude Brock Anton should be tossed into a gator pit.

He has been already, little does the idiot know but this little funfest is going to haunt him for the rest of his life.

That said, he's probably the type of guy who was gonig to be a reprobate, vile human anyway.

[rainmaker]

This will never be old news. It will always haunt our city.

On a lighter note, the police should have called in tim thomas, he could have put a stop to this!

[fulcrum]

This will never be old news. It will always haunt our city.

This should haunt the city.....

[Loch]

That guy has guts - I would honestly like to shake his hand. In the face of thousands of these people, two guys stand in front of the windows fending people off, only to be overcome by the sheer numbers.

I was very disturbed by this video...the people just going along like its normal for teen girls and thugs with 70 IQ's to kick in windows and beat a man in the street.

An absolute disgrace. People wonder why I am a misanthrope.

The interesting thing is that the size of the group of bystanders is likely a factor in this case... people are less likely to respond to a problem when they think someone else will.

Interesting Study on response time vs group size.

Throw in conformity tendencies that are likely 'encourage' more people to commit acts of vandalism and presto, you have a shit show. (technically the study is on providing 'incorrect responses' but I think we can agree that kicking a window at the Bay is an 'incorrect response')

The guys standing in front of the window are more of an exception to the norm in that situation than are the people doing nothing.

[mister_mcgoo]

a little humor to a non-funny situation

http://hijinksensue.com/2011/06/16/t...e-nice-things/

[Dakkster]

That guy has guts - I would honestly like to shake his hand. In the face of thousands of these people, two guys stand in front of the windows fending people off, only to be overcome by the sheer numbers.

I was very disturbed by this video...the people just going along like its normal for teen girls and thugs with 70 IQ's to kick in windows and beat a man in the street.

An absolute disgrace. People wonder why I am a misanthrope.

Agree one hundred percent. I've avoided these videos for as long as I could, but today I just had to look at some of them and I just can't believe that this is actually happening in goddamn Vancouver. ****ing animals.

[MXHockey]

So for my girlfriend's birthday, I took her to "Wicked" tonight, the musical that's playing at the Queen Elizabeth Theater here in Vancouver. This is the Theater that was mentioned on the news during the riot, where everyone had to stay inside the building until the riot subsided.

We walked around this part of downtown for awhile before the show, as this was in the core area of the riot. Overall it was barely noticeable that anything happened, all those that came down and helped with the clean-up did an excellent job. There were a few charred spots on the road, which were clearly the spots where vehicles were torched.

While we were reading notes on the Blenz (coffee shop) that had it's windows smashed, a couple of guys walked by and yelled "This is what happens when you oppress people"..........

Anyways, I don't agree with poverty and oppression, and I also don't agree with rioting and looting. I'll leave it at that. As for the rest of what we saw tonight:


The bank (BMO) windows that were smashed are all covered in plywood with thousands of messages on it - mostly positive, but with the odd negative comment. Most messages thanked the fans, thanked the VPD, thanked those who cleaned up. Some messages said this act wasn't representative of their city, and some messages ripped into the rioters.

There was even a "Congratulations Bruins" which no one has blocked out or vandalized. Im sure TG and 4T2 will be happy to hear that

Someone wrote "Luongo should use his $10 million dollars to clean up this mess since it's all Luongo's fault"...............someone did a pretty good job of crossing out Luongo's name (which was definitely classy thing to do). Hopefully someone else will cross out the salary amount, as clearly that's the identifier without the name.


Anyways, since I live here in Vancouver, and was downtown tonight, I just thought I would share with the rest of Dobber Nation. I must say it was pretty interesting living about 10 minutes from the chaos the other night, and then going to check it out a few days later.