Just wanted to vent my rage. My city, one supposed to be amongst the best and most beautiful in the world, has lost face. We were having a blast and being peacful and loving during the Olympics just months ago. Enjoying the Canucks successes and failures as adults these past weeks
But tonight a small section of young fuckers are looting, burning and rioting. Police cars are on fire. People have been stabbed. Businesses have been pillaged
This city is disgusted. Embarrassed. Furious. Humiliated. Facebook is alight with friends venting their anger at what is going on by hoodlums. We are all heartbroken. No true Canucks fan would participate in this nonsense. The Canucks Organization and Mayor of Vancouver have stated their disappointment. Even news anchors cannot contain their anger that this is happening.
I'm especially pissed because two of my girl friends were harassed by jumpy cops (understandably.) Another of my friends, a Boston fan, narrowly escaped being hurt trying to go home. And my girlfriend is trapped at a friend's condo overnight because the tear-gas and violence isn't worth trying to get through.
If you want something to rant about... move to Egypt or Libya.
So........ I know there aren't any other Vancouverites here other than Noilly to spread the word on. But a cleanup is being organized tonight by the good citizens of Vancouver for tomorrow morning. We are going to volunteer our time to help clean up the mess that a small group of bastards is creating. This mess will not be ignored by the good people of this city
Secondly, a website has been set up to link pictures from Twitter and Facebook where we will attempt to tag looters and have them convicted for their crimes. If you by chance know any youngsters who may be participating, please help identify these criminals. http://vancityriotcriminals.tumblr.com/
Anyways. Sorry to the rest of Canada and the hockey world for looking like jackasses. We'll do what we can to pick ourselves back up and prove it's the few bad apples but they will not ruin it for the rest.
Congrats again to Lance and all Bruins fans.
/rant