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Start with a big bowl of self-entitled teens and twentysomethings, mix in a large vat of testosterone, add booze, bake in some mob mentality, sprinkle in some "I gotta have a cool story to tell ppl on facebook!", and you get this...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nati...le2062706/

Of course if this happened in Boston instead of Vancouver, there'd be plenty of media chatter of how Americans are so ugly, violent and unruly.
06-16-2011 06:36 AM
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Hell, losing 1-0 on a controversial call could be understood, if not condoned. (I kid)

But you got your ass kicked, 4-0, you bunch of babies.
06-16-2011 06:53 AM
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Watching some footage on the news this morning, I had to wonder.

How many of those idiots actually give a damn about hockey?
06-16-2011 07:06 AM
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(06-16-2011 07:06 AM)Smaug Wrote:  How many of those idiots actually give a damn aboot hockey?

FIFY.
06-16-2011 09:04 AM
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(06-16-2011 09:04 AM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  
(06-16-2011 07:06 AM)Smaug Wrote:  How many of those idiots actually give a damn aboot hockey?

FIFY.

Touche. 03-lmfao
06-16-2011 09:25 AM
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When bread and circuses go awry?
06-16-2011 09:27 AM
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I never understand why so many people riot and tear up the cities where they live. We see it in Detroit, LA, etc and then we wonder why these places become shitholes.
06-16-2011 12:07 PM
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I thought you were going to give us a horse meat recipe. 03-lmfao
06-16-2011 12:19 PM
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Not from that side of Canada, but I figure that this was going to be a winning riot or a losing riot. I wholly doubt that any of these people went to the hockey game and probably aren't fans either. They definitely aren't mad because they lost.
06-16-2011 06:40 PM
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From the article...

Quote:Psychologists and sports fan behaviour experts have a number of theories. In a piece in National Geographic a few years back, Christian End, an expert in sport fan behaviour at Xavier University in Cincinatti, Ohio, explained that people in a crowd experience a process of "de-individuation." Individual accountability goes out the window, essentially.

"When we're less accountable we tend to behave in ways we wouldn't,” he said. “If I'm among thousands of celebrating people and I were to throw a beer bottle against a brick wall, you'd have a hard time picking me out."

Indeed. Mob mentality is a scary thing. Right and wrong gets completely thrown out the window and otherwise "civilized" human beings show how uncomfortably close they really are to primal animals.
06-16-2011 10:11 PM
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I've been thru Vancouver many times on my travels to Whistler. Never thought Vancouver people were like that.
06-17-2011 01:54 AM
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What's really interesting is how Japanese cities are torn up from a tsunami, something a bit more devastating than watching your hockey team lose, yet not one report of looting or violence.

Rampant rioting is rarely, if ever, justified. Even for political or social reasons. I'm not talking about loud protests and civil disobedience, but I'm referring to the random tear-everything-up mayhem. You shouldn't have your person or property attacked just 'for kicks' or because someone is trying to prove a point to another party. But at least when riots occur in poverty-stricken ghettos, their vented anger is at least a little understandable, even if not condoned. Compare that to these sports-related "riots" like those on college campuses, most look like frat boys and cackling girls who drove in from well-to-do suburbs waving their smartphones around.

I saw one Vancouver riot clip where these three young women - all of whom looked like they came straight from the Gap - giggling as they tried unsuccessfully to kick through a store glass pane window. What possesses people to do this? Alcohol or no alcohol, I couldn't muster up the mentality to destroy property and set cars on fire and feel that it's "fun."
06-17-2011 07:18 AM
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(06-17-2011 07:18 AM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  What's really interesting is how Japanese cities are torn up from a tsunami, something a bit more devastating than watching your hockey team lose, yet not one report of looting or violence.

Rampant rioting is rarely, if ever, justified. Even for political or social reasons. I'm not talking about loud protests and civil disobedience, but I'm referring to the random tear-everything-up mayhem. You shouldn't have your person or property attacked just 'for kicks' or because someone is trying to prove a point to another party. But at least when riots occur in poverty-stricken ghettos, their vented anger is at least a little understandable, even if not condoned. Compare that to these sports-related "riots" like those on college campuses, most look like frat boys and cackling girls who drove in from well-to-do suburbs waving their smartphones around.

I saw one Vancouver riot clip where these three young women - all of whom looked like they came straight from the Gap - giggling as they tried unsuccessfully to kick through a store glass pane window. What possesses people to do this? Alcohol or no alcohol, I couldn't muster up the mentality to destroy property and set cars on fire and feel that it's "fun."

The Japanese are amazing and a great contrast. Another comparison would be people during Katrina and the Japanese Tsunami. Did these riots have anything to do with the sports loss?
06-17-2011 07:56 AM
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