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If you follow hockey or at least sports in a cursory (pardon the pun) way, I'm addressing the ugly jerks of last night in beautiful Vancover, BC. I'm not singling them out - they did a great job on the 2010 Olympics. This is just the latest in what happens in cities involved in championships that riot after the game is over - senseless!!!!

This is the story: Canucks fans turn violent after loss (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/hockey/nhl/06/16/vancouver.scene.stanley.cup.finals.game.7/?&hpt=hp_c2) (lost the NHL championship to the Bruins)

This is not the first time - not remotely the first.

It could be the two cities involved in a Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals.

If that town loses, they may riot - if they win, they may "celebrate" by burning down stores and cars. It also happens if a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina. :confused:

Mike and Mike had a story of an LAPD officer telling someone to just run a red light the night (the Lakers were in a championship?) :(

In Vancover, at least four in the hospital with stab wounds. If it were to me to rule, these hoodlums would be banned from British Columbia for life at a minimum.

Millions in damage, people the next day have their stores ruined or can't go to work, the bus lines closed until this is over.

Highly suspect drunks start riots like this. Regardless - this makes no sense!!! Is it there are twisted people that will use any excuse to vandalize or steal?

Alcohol, repressed emotions of all kinds, excitement about the game, and above all people in a crowd. Crowds do the amazing-est things that the individuals never would.

Who said this?
"A person is smart. People are stupid and you know it."

P.S. When people can view a game on a giant jumbotron on the streets, it encourages a few to stir up a mob.

Alcohol, repressed emotions of all kinds, excitement about the game, and above all people in a crowd. Crowds do the amazing-est things that the individuals never would.

Who said this?
"A person is smart. People are stupid and you know it."

It's a rough quote, but Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) in Men in Black said it.

They're thinking it wasn't necessarily fans and sports freaks, but a few people looking for a reason to riot. This was probably going to happen whether the Canucks won or lost. :(

I think you're right about the quote.

I fear you're right about "looking for a reason to riot" as well. :(

Why do people riot? (http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/16/6875431-what-makes-sports-fans-like-canucks-fans-riot-eh-)

Some bad apples, ever growing street crowds for each game, hang-back cops: a perfect storm. I'm embarrassed for my town ;(

There is the mob mentality. In a crowd you can become anonymous, and some feel that this allows them to be free of responsibility, it's not you it's the mob. Then there is all that about wanting to conform to the crowd / mob and not wanting to standout, it is easier to go with the flow / mob. This allows a few to stir up a mob, especially with something as passionate as sport.

KD