The Fool Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 The city's reputation is not ruined. While these idiots are resting with a hangover tomorrow, the rest of us will be cleaning this crap up. Some of the twitter responses are pissing me off though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 LOL at CDC getting broken from me posting. I was downtown. I saw the game. I saw the riot. There are no lack of idiots or overreactors in Vancouver. It's the perfect storm. I texted my friend before four o'clock (FOUR O' CLOCK!!) "The skytrain is a Gong Show!" "I got on one and rode downtown but it was crazy the whole way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Situation Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Who cares if our reputation/image gets hurt? It highlights that there are flaws that we need to take care of in this city. Well deserved hit on our image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin. Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Maybe the real estate market will be less expensive? Almost in time for me to get my first apartment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 How about Vancouver based businesses looking for investment and of course the TOURISM industry? What flaws can we take of besides the police learning better ways to disperse a riot? This could have happened in any Western city. A crowd of people turned up and a small group (possibly anarchists) cause chaos and incite a riot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bure1994Mclean Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 What a horrible day...and all this after we call Boston classless... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brahma Bull Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 How about Vancouver based businesses looking for investment and of course the TOURISM industry? What flaws can we take of besides the police learning better ways to disperse a riot? This could have happened in any Western city. A crowd of people turned up and a small group (possibly anarchists) cause chaos and incite a riot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EB² Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 What times the clean up happenig? I'll come down after my final! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Yup, it sucks but the police really needed to be more prepared if they were so worried about their business/tourism image. If nothing else it showed that this city was extremely unprepared. even the mayor said how he knew there was a group of hooligans out there that would cause trouble. its not news to anyone. hooligans in 94 and hooligans in 2011. yup, it totally sucks, but it just shows that one small mistake like not planning for a bunch of idiots running around can ruin a city's reputation. i got the hell out of downtown after the 2nd intermission. pretty obvious what was going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsCanuck Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 What times the clean up happenig? I'll come down after my final! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 On facebook the event maker said the police would allow it to start at 7am? But they've been changing the info every so often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillerGenuineDraft Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 I;m so ahsmed that i was down there. K, i know that we're all probbly drunk and that we're all mad, but please. this is our own ???? city. do not ruin one of our favourite places in the world. VanCity </3 im disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EB² Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 I just hope the rumours about the Boston fan are lies. These people not only embarrass themselves they embarrass us which sucks. It's all over the American news too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj_coolcat Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 For those of you that were downtown, how bad was it actually? How many people were actually "rioting"? Yah okay, I know they broke some windows and burned a car but I talked to one of my friends who was downtown and he didn't really think it was " riot" more like just a few drunk idiots making trouble. Not trying to excuse anything here, you just wonder how much of it is media sensationalism. It's funny too, I was talking to another friend and we both agreed that if this was Montreal rioting no one would blink an eye. I wonder how that city gets away with it all the time without it "tarnishing their image." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EB² Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 For those of you that were downtown, how bad was it actually? How many people were actually "rioting"? Yah okay, I know they broke some windows and burned a car but I talked to one of my friends who was downtown and he didn't really think it was " riot" more like just a few drunk idiots making trouble. Not trying to excuse anything here, you just wonder how much of it is media sensationalism. It's funny too, I was talking to another friend and we both agreed that if this was Montreal rioting no one would blink an eye. I wonder how that city gets away with it all the time without it "tarnishing their image." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsCanuck Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 I just hope the rumours about the Boston fan are lies. These people not only embarrass themselves they embarrass us which sucks. It's all over the American news too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin. Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 You're a lower body injury! sorry riot again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynnea Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 This is a really long thread and search is disabled, so I'm going to post here hoping someone can give me an answer... I deleted my facebook two years ago, so I can't access the event page. What time/where is the clean-up starting? Watching the footage disgusted me, and I don't like the thought of my city littered with debris, so I want to do whatever I can to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master 112 Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Are you drunk? Or am I drunk... Your posts don't make much sense to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin. Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 You can follow at VancouverClean on Twitter. They're updating us on the clean-up committee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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