Related Story<\/a>). Many of the protesters from that night have learned many valuable lessons about doing damage to a large, metropolitan city.<\/p>\n\u201cFor one, I think the next time a bunch of us decide to break windows and set cars on fire, we should really make sure that nobody has any cell phones, cameras, or any other type of recording device,\u201d said Tom Klang, after writing a lengthy apology entitled \u201cOops, my bad\u201d on his facebook page, \u201cWe\u2019ve found out first hand that taking pictures and posting them online kinda takes away from your fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
In retaliation for embarrassing the city, some of the people identified online have been subjected to vigilante justice such as having their homes egged and their car tires flattened.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike, really, this is bullshit!\u201d snapped Moonbeam McLean after someone smashed his car\u2019s windshield, \u201cWho does that? It makes no sense! Don\u2019t people realize that this is my shit and my property?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel so disrespected! What the hell is wrong with everyone? Where the hell are the police?\u201d exclaimed another identified rioter after someone threw a rock through a window in his house, \u201cI\u2019m going to sue the city for not protecting my human rights! We purposely left a few cop cars untorched. Where they hell are those pigs?\u201d<\/p>\n
Vancouver\u2019s mayor weighed in on solutions to preventing future embarrassment for the Winter Olympic City.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do agree that the images that were posted around the world, showing Vancouver as a city with a weak social fabric, did some damage to our reputation\u201d said The Mayor, \u201cSo, from now on, the city of Vancouver is going to ban recording devices for all future riots. Anyone caught posting a picture online will have their complimentary weed taken away from them on the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Until the next riot, an \u201cI\u2019m sorry I got caught\u201d wall has been set up downtown for people to sign and pledge to not bring recording devices to the next civic unrest.<\/p>\n
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VANCOUVER (SBP) — A week after the Stanley Cup riots, more tragedy has occurred as thousands of participants have been identified through photos posted on social networking sites like facebook and twitter. Because their anonymity was compromised, many of the rioters have come forward and apologized for getting caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}