I just heard others on the roof say "FIGHT!!" and I turned around and started snapping. No idea of how it happened or where the guys went after.

Totally. I was there but I didn't take part, I didn't cheer, I barely even spoke to anyone other than my friends. We're there to observe, not participate. Some of my friend's parents were talking to me today, saying I probably shouldn't have gone down but I told them I don't feel bad about it and I'd do it again today if there was another. Not enough people get it. I guess it's because not enough people have a hobby they're passionate enough about.

i just want to make it clear that i'm not defending this guy in anyway either. the point i was trying to make was i only talked to the guy once and for a few mins and there was something that seemed odd about him to me back then (probably a year ago now).

i can understand your point about people being two faced with a professional appearance and a douche bag persona outside of work. we all know alcohol impairs your judgment but there is a limit to that. drunk people are aware of what they're doing in many cases and use it as an excuse to say "oh, i was drunk, didn't know that happened".

What an idiot.

P.S., if you are this stupid, I will probably remove you from here. We don't need pro-riot trash making REVscene any stupider than it already is.

I know I shouldn't be laughing but the guy punching that idiot with the Sedin jersey was epic, haha LOL.

it's people like that that make me wonder why they even exist on this planet

Interesting how he only names three whites guys and calls them trash, but he forget Tim Kwong and the guy in the green top who lit a car on fire in the underground. Peter C your a douche.

Nice to see there was some good that happened on that night.

Send this to the authorities. I hope if Buk Daa Laww or Linh Tee calls the police, fire dpt, ambulance that they reply to them "Oh, I'm sorry, you will have to wait. We don't have enough cars because so many were destroyed by rioters you support. Can your stroke wait?"

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i think you have it all wrong...please dont assume i support pro riot comments. I was posting that conversion to expose people like Linh Tee and Buckk Daa Laww and their idiotic pro riot comments and humiliate them to fellow Vancouverites. i think people should be held accountable for what they say and that if they had the audacity to say such thing, then they should feel the heat they'll get for saying something SO disgraceful and disrespectful. and if their employers find out about this, even better.

Ronin probably missed the part where you called the couple "ignorant"

So fucking hard to follow this thread but the Kotylaks have fled their home :troll:

http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Ap...481/story.html

I think what Ronin is getting at is that if anyone on RS is like that person in the chat that EX-R posted, he would remove them. Though I have to admit the way it was worded made it initially confusing like the OP was being targeted.

Honestly, im willing to do this....anyone else wanna help?

In some of these vids/stories i notice mentions of 'political statements' and that to an extent that the riot was preplanned by a few. If any, what kind of political statement were people trying to make??? i don't get it...or is it just an idiots excuse to destroy stuff?

not saying it didnt happen but that sounds like bs to make it look like they're being persecuted/punished. fishing for sympathy

it sounds like they're just reading online comments and feeling threatened by them; nothings actually happened @/to their home

the police should goto his house and flip/lightup his cars; and the employees of The Bay and LV should go crazy on the windows of his house :troll:

alot of these people probably just haven't been punished with the buckle end

G20 was nowhere as bad as this riot for the following reasons:

- the G20 rioters did not attack by-standers or random people
- the G20 rioters focused on big corporation stores (The Bay, Starbucks, etc)
- the G20 rioters were a large group of organized people that did most of the work, whereas ours had just random morons/douchebags/idiots joining in throughout the riot
- from what I could remember, very minimal looting of stores took place at the G20 riot

There were WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more police presence at the G20 protest/riot then what we had here. VPD should be glad that they were able to contain it within just a few hours... probably cuz most of these rioters are simply cowards in real life to begin with.

This is what you can get with money and a good lawyer. Well played.... well played... It's sad that there's a chance that he will not get much punishment, judging by the way his lawyer and family are spinning this event; "he did not burn the car", "the fire he tried to start did not set the car on fire", "he feels sorry and embarrassed and was simply caught up in the moment"... then slowly turning public perception by releasing all these "news" evens through the media, "we are being harassed", "we don't feel safe because we're being threatened"...

WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT. Just man up, accept that you were a moron for doing what you did (not the bullshit statement like oh my fire didn't acutally burn the cop's car), and accept the consequences.

Sorry but I can't give him the benefit of the doubt just yet... anything him and his family (and his lawyer) are trying to do now is just tactics used to get sympathy from people and the crown prosecutor (in hopes that no charges will be laid).

Well played by their lawyer, but Pathetic nonetheless.

I just wanted to say the real vigilantes are still out there, the ones that went downtown strictly to cause trouble whether we won or lost the game and probably will never be caught which sucks. The people that are being caught are just people who made an error in judgement, people who just got caught up int he mob mentality and yes they should suffer the consesquences but i honestly dont believe there lives should be turned upside down cause of this.

But the positive out of this is that everyone is gonna think twice in doing something this stupid ever again and im hoping if put in the same situation again. The crowds will turn on the shitstarters instead of the defenders of the city.

I also find the notion that "the fire he started didn't burn the car, therefore he was not guilty" mentality that his lawyer and supporters are trying to present. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Just because the car didn't acutally burn up from his attemp to light it, doesn't mean that he's not guilty of the act itself.

It's like saying, "Oh, I didn't really mean to try to kill someone because I put the ammo in backwards in my gun and therefore it didn't fire when I put the gun to that person's head and pulled the trigger". Is there a charge for attempted arson? If anything he should at least be charged with that. There are other photos and videos of him setting fire to a garbage can as well... so I"m sure the VPD knows clearly on what he did and didn't do.

The biggest injustice that could come out of this is for his big money lawyer to con his way out of this whole thing and the kid is not charged with ANYTHING. Unfortunately that's probably what will happen to a lot of these people.. a slap on the wrist, some community service hours, and back to their lives as if nothing's really happened.

I fucking hate Peter Chao.

For some, I expect it's to make a "statement" against the police - if the cops stand back and try to keep things calm, they're useless and impotent... if they step up and bust heads, they're brutal and evil.

And I think some of them just wanted to cause mayhem.

I posted this on my friend's blog:

once in a while... one would have to agree with peter chow.