Vancouver Riots 2011: Fires Rage As Canucks Lose Stanley Cup (VIDEO)

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Vancouver Riots 2011: Fires Rage As Canucks Lose Stanley Cup (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/16/vancouver-riots-2011_n_877924.html

I have never understood what causes someone to tear up their own town because of a sports loss.

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That can’t be possible. Michael Moore told us that Canadians are more peaceful than Americans.

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Stay classy, Vancouver!

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Anyone who gets all that upset and violent over sports just needs to be put up against a wall and shot…because they are worthless animals.

For some reason we don’t have a lot of sports riots down here in the South. Seems that when you try to burn some redneck’s pickup truck he’s more than willing to shoot people in the face.

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lol, never thought of that…

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College towns(even in the south) tend to burn after big sports wins…albeit without so much violence.

But after a loss? That’s just so European.

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Crowd Attacks Man During Vancouver Riot
A man attempting to halt the looting and destruction of a storefront is attacked and severely beaten by the riotous crowd (relevant portion of video begins at 3:15 - Warning: Graphic Video)

http://www.realradio.fm/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=425022&article=8715092

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Screw the Canucks. Congratulations to the Boston Bruins winning the Stanley Cup. Its so ironic that the Canucks mirror the same low class as it’s fans.

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Mob mentality. . .and people wonder why I need a rock-n-roll switch? :rolleyes:

“Fucking savages.” - Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

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these are the punks we talk about in the other thread about the kind of kids that have entitlement mentality :slight_smile:

my wife is from Vancouver she is now almost 40 and said this stuff never happened and never would have when I was younger ?

the youth of today :slight_smile:

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If you are going to riot don’t forget situational awareness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBtDrcIntk&feature=related

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Has there ever been a riot in Texas???

Imagine if the Canucks had won…

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If there has been, and it was about sports, it would have been about high school football.

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The hockey crowds in Vancouver went on a similar rampage in '94 when the Canucks lost to the Rangers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Vancouver_Riot

Can your wife account for her whereabouts on June 14, 1994? :secret:

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I live near the site of one of the largest and most violent(and damn near completely erased from history) race riots in American history, right in the middle of Houston.

The charges that followed led to 19 hangings, and 63 life sentences. All from the mutinous company.

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was just chatting with her brother the thing like he said they were organized and waiting for this they had masks and goggles etc…
planed to raise problems like the olympics sadly the youth of today :slight_smile: