Riots break out after Habs win
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2008-04-22 06:09:18
Note: This isn’t an article related to car enthusiasts but from time to time I’d like to offer my opinion on the happenings in and around the city.
As you are probably well aware, last night the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Boston Bruins 5-0 in game 7 of the Eastern conference quarter-finals. After the game, fans poured into the streets in peaceful celebration. This was not limited to downtown either but all over the city. From Brossard to Vaudreuil cars were honking their horns and people waving flags to announce their joy.
Unfortunately there were many people who took it one notch too high. In scenes reminiscent from the 1993 Stanley Cup win vandals started destroying the city and specifically targeting police cars. One group of youths threw a Molotov cocktail into the open window of a police cruiser to set it ablaze. These people were probably planning this long before the party and do not represent anyone but the thugs themselves.
As you can see from the condemnation in the thread discussing the riots, an overwhelming majority of fans are simply appalled at the events from last night. Hopefully there will not be a repeat because it serves nothing to destroy local shops, city property or police property.
Its proven Know that it was not Habs fans that started this riot,
helicopter views show that there were a few people walking up st-cathrine street with poles and molotov cocktails in hand ready to start trouble, this was pa planned attack on the city and they used the habs game as a cover to do so…
These people need some serious help
Personally I dont see the point of this, If you are Happy! Celebrate! Grab a Beer! Cheer! Yell! Honk! Wave a Flag! But Why destroy…. If to celebrate you must destroy something, we need to get a psychiatrist for these people!
I can’t believe there are idiots like that who are waiting only for event like a Canadian game to break all they could find…
Sad sad…
I was there when it started breaking out (honestly, maybe 1 in 10 reading this article were ;))
but it went ugly very fast.
I got 2 words, DUMBASS ARSHOLES
thats not 2 words…
absolutely sick behaviour!!!!!
it makes some funs to avoid celebration.
I wonder whats gonna happen if we win the stanley cup?????? that was just the quarter finals….
if they win thw cup, they might go destroy city hall, palais de justice, champlain and mercier bridge…????
moi jtrouve sa con ke les policier on abandoner leur vehicules en plein centre ville !! tempis pour eux si leur auto on passer en feu !
i was standing in front of one of the police cars that was being destroyed and set on fire, lucky for everyone that nobody was smart enough to open the trunk and get hold of the shotgun, but one guy got hold of the computer from inside the car, NOTE: nobody hitting the car was a canadiens fan they were all thug/gang members with their bandanas covering there facing yelling ” fuck the police n**ga ” , 2 of the guys had handguns tucked in the front of their pants, and the disgustying thing about it is that they were chanting “go habs go” as the cars burned
Damn shame….I seen it comin’ though. People can’t control themselves! Imagine what would happen if they won the cup!!
Ben oui cé de la faute des policiers !
Ils etaient p-e en train de calmer la foule !
honestly some ppl have no sense in there heads like wow…be hapy that we won and celebrate dont set things on fire it makes no sense to me….plus i was just watching the news (cfcf 12) and they have video footage of ppl destoying the cop car …idiots….and u actually see there faces clear lol
its a great way to show how much class this city has. its always a small group that ruins our image. this doesn’t happen anywhere else!! these punk hooligans should get their asses kicked.
d accord avec toi pimpopoulous
les cops sont bin caves de laisser les vitres ouverte ooohalallala
les vitres ont été brisées, elles étaient pas ouvertes. Anyway toi tu vois un char avec les vitres ouvertes, tu te dis AH ! quel bon temps pour le mettre en feu ????
C’est ridicule
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Dequoi tu parle toi?? Test entraine de me dire que les policiers sont cave davoir laisser leur fenetre ouverte? La derniere fois jai cheker,.. une fenetre ca se brisait,.. par ailleurs ouesque tu veu qui les calises ou leur chars de polices? Si il fallait que tout les policiers reste dans leur chars pour eviter de laisser leur vehicule tout seul,.. a quoi tu pense ca laurait eu dlaire??? Et oui en effet tout ceux qui on causer les dommages nettaient que de simples thugs, gangsters ou je sais trop comment les nommer, qui profitait de la circonstances pour faire chier lautoriter. Meme que les vrai partisans huait ceux qui lancait des bouteilles de biere… En tk jabonde dans le meme sens que la majoriter de vs autes… a quoi ca va avoir laire si on gagne la coupe,.. jveu pas lsavoir,.. mais cest dommage car javait lintention daller regarder la game au centre ville… jvais passer mon tour.
sebas180 completely agree with you man, what type of idiot says it’s the cops fault, first off windows got broken not left open, and second off morons “Do you really think of throwing a molotov cocktail into a car with an opened window… for sure the people who think it’s the cops fault are dumb young punks…almost as stupid as these f-ing thugs who give our great city a bad image by pulling sh*t like this
All I can say is, ridiculous, need to get these people who want to protray a “thuglife” off the streets. Montrealers, Quebecers, Canadians are known to be good people, these people are destroying our image. That night the real habs fans where walking in the streets waving flags, having fun not destroying OUR city. This city belongs to all of us, we gotta get bring these ignorant people to justice.
First off, not everybody who trashed cop cars were gang members and thugs and whatnot, boogey-man, the ppl you saw on the news were my friends… they were idiots, they got excited and saw some other people destroying cars and decided to do it too, but they were too dumb and got arrested
alors l aprochaine fois que les tuff font de la merde alors les good people devraient les tabasser calisss men aller a montreal pis decrisser une volée a eux ki foutent le bordel comme ca ouin ca doit etre drole
wow just shows how some people were born stupid…taking a great celabration and making it into a disaster!!! Imagine the poor shop owners who work there asses off to keep there stores open and in good condition…they now have worry every night there is a hockey game that a bunch of gang banger homies and punks dont smash there windows and cause fires…lots of class guys keep it up!!!idiots!!!