It’s only a game.

I think this picture says it all.

 

I’m just gonna take a quick break from food posts to post this.

 

As some of you may know (or may not know), our hockey team made it to the 7th game of the stanley cup finals against Boston.

 

We lost. And many fans (or some would say non-fans) decided it was a great idea to destroy the city.

 

The riot was worse than the one we had in 1994. For the same reason. Losing a hockey game.

 

Other countries riot and protest over their government treating them poorly, we lose a game, get whiney and drunk in the streets and light cop cars on fire.

 

Stupidity, mob mentalitiy and false sense anonymity.

 

The good thing about the drunken over-confidence? Thousands of photos and videos taken by bystanders. Generally rubber necking is frowned upon, but now the VPD have tons of evidence to charge some of these idiots.

 

This is not my city.

 

It still seems to surreal, I watched it happen on a live stream on my computer, in awe with what we had done. Burning cars, smashing windows, looting, fighting eachother. It seemed like an excuse to do these horrible things.

 

This is NOT Vancouver. This is NOT how we represent ourselves, or at least, how we want to represent ourselves.

 

The following morning there were numerous facebook groups asking people to post their photos/videos and call out the rioters.

 

There was also an event created for the REAL Vancouverites to come out and help clean up the city.

 

And they did! (I was trapped at work, unfortunately.)

 

Thousands of amazing people came out to clean the up the mess the others left.

 

And spotless they made it!! By 9am the streets were bare.

 

Thank you, real Vancouverites. You`ve made some of us very proud for doing the right thing, and showing everyone we ARE good people.