Vancouver Riot
- Thread starter terminator363
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. Back to about the riot, it was obviously premeditated. Cause who would bring black masks to a hockey game?
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- IRT_hordeR35
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I went on the M5 Board and found these video... Felt sorry for the owner.
Here's the girl trying to protect her M5. (4:40)
I'm shocked, that's all I can say...
[Picture courtesy of M5BOARD.com]
What if the girl had a gun?! Wouldnt it be something spectacular? They would get what they deserve... but im pretty sure the insurance company will give her a new one! Hey who knows maybe its the 2012 new M5
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- GTP_Sam48
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- StarFirebird
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Wow just wow.
The people these days.
The people these days.
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In the grand scheme of things, an M5 is just an M5. A terrible loss, but nothing compared to the injured police men, hundreds of injured people, and smashed up stores.
I am wowed by the ignorance that has popped up in this thread.
I am wowed by the ignorance that has popped up in this thread.
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- DismissiveClOCK
I wonder if she had Canadian Riot insurance
Yes, probably. (I don't get if that was a joke?)
She would likely be covered by ICBC.
QFT.
Joel
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- Noob616
There was no riot last year. Nor the year before, or the year before that, or the year before that, or the year before that. Noticing a trend? The riot was set off by a bunch of idiots with their faces covered who had planned it all out before. It could have happened anywhere, or at any sporting event.
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As a proud Canadian and Ontarian, I'm rather disappointed how everyone seems to be associating a few deranged Vancouverites (and who knows what other drivel) with all Canadians. Yes, there was no excuse for what happened, but no, that does not make us a nation of angst-ridden time bombs like the American and international media seems so eager to portray us as.
Ever notice how the only time the world pays and significant attention to Canada is when we do do something negative, which rarely happens? As a curious Canadian, please answer me honestly and openly how often American or British or whichever country you live in's national media covers stuff that portrays Canada in a positive light, like how our troops are bravely serving (and dying for) peacekeeping missions around the world (often in support of America), or how our banking system and economy weathered the 2008 recession better than any country in the world and should be a model to be followed, or how we accept and help many refugees from countries all over the world? In many cases the same countries that now view us as crazy from coast to coast? I would be surprised if any of Canada's bright spots receive the same coverage as a hockey riot. I believe this deliberately taints many people's views of Canada, unfortunately....
I still think we have the best country in the world! One hockey riot is but a drop of blood in a deep blue sea, to speak...
Ever notice how the only time the world pays and significant attention to Canada is when we do do something negative, which rarely happens? As a curious Canadian, please answer me honestly and openly how often American or British or whichever country you live in's national media covers stuff that portrays Canada in a positive light, like how our troops are bravely serving (and dying for) peacekeeping missions around the world (often in support of America), or how our banking system and economy weathered the 2008 recession better than any country in the world and should be a model to be followed, or how we accept and help many refugees from countries all over the world? In many cases the same countries that now view us as crazy from coast to coast? I would be surprised if any of Canada's bright spots receive the same coverage as a hockey riot. I believe this deliberately taints many people's views of Canada, unfortunately....
I still think we have the best country in the world! One hockey riot is but a drop of blood in a deep blue sea, to speak...
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Yes, definitely. An M5 is replaceable, the smashed up stores are replaceable but for the injured police men etc. their lives are well in danger. Everybody understand that but It's also terrible for the owner of the shops and cars and especially how the women tried to protect her M5 and people just made dumb of her was just disgraceful. She, the shop owners, police men and the victims involved deserve to get their rights.
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mafia_boy
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While Canada was the best performing G8 nation out of the GFC, Australia was even better than that due to our resources boom, and you guys have the USA next door trying to flounder out of debt impacting your manufacturing. We have no such issues with our neighbours, China won't stop knocking for more raw materials.
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While Canada was the best performing G8 nation out of the GFC, Australia was even better than that due to our resources boom, and you guys have the USA next door trying to flounder out of debt impacting your manufacturing. We have no such issues with our neighbours, China won't stop knocking for more raw materials.
Problem with Canada is that we'll sell our raw resources to whomever for a certain price, and then we usually end up buying back the finish product... at a higher price!
Even though the US impacts us Canadians negatively in their times of despair, we also get the effects of an upswing as well, so I suppose it balances out.But what Canada really needs is to really takes strides towards a self-sufficient economy. If only we could get factories up to transform our resources into consumer products, we could sharply cut imports and increase exports, create jobs, and largely shield ourselves from the effects of our larger neighbors.
Same thing with our other resources. Take for example the Alberta tar sands - I think that those fields ought to be nationalized and set up under a new Crown Corporation, and then refine the oil right here as well. Then the price of gas would drop in Canada, we could set up a new tax from oil revenue to work towards a greener oil replacement, screw OPEC countries over massively when we sell any excess oil at a lower price to drop the bottom out of the gulf economies, and we'd have yet more jobs on the home market. See, if Canada could find the gumption to get a little nasty economically (I think given our resource-rich position it's long overdue), Canadians would be much better off and we could keep many more of our dollars within Canada, and the US to a lesser extent.
I mean, it sure beats sending them overseas along with our jobs, I think...
