In the news today

[Ryllharu]

Vancouver should invest in an Active Denial System. Millimeter wave "death ray" that makes it feel like your skin is set on fire. Once out of the beam, the effect ends. It's a preferable to things like rubber claymore mines, tear gas, or the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), most of which have the potential to cause more permanent damage.

As we've seen in many countries during the Arab Spring, lethal force against protesters should only be an option if the officier/soldier is being equivalently threatened.

Disclaimer: I do not work for Raytheon.

[Edort4]

The thing I find funny (in a sad way) is how this kind of disturbances tend to end with the same conclussions:

There was a bunch of anarchists that just wanted to break havoc and took advantage of the mob.
Its just a bunch of a thousand radical fanatics of the teams that take advantage of the mob to break havoc.
They should hunt down those people and made em pay for all the destruction.
Lets make a movement to identify those basterds and make em pay and in the process get some rewards.

Is something I always see when this kind of things happen, some riot started for sports related issues. I mean why dont they ban the canucks for a few years from those competions, or make em pay as subsidiary, or ban such a dangeorus sport that can make people go crazy.

They take advantage of those fellings fans have, to sell them merchandise, to sell em very expensive tickets or season passes, they promote rivalry and even "conflict" with advertising campaigns as if matches were wars. And when they go rampage its all their fault.

The solution to everything is always to spend lots more of money into army, military, defense and some new and innovative forms of reducing human beings to pulp. Lets spend hundreds of millions in crowd control/ repression methods when their savage riots cost a few millinions.

[Kraco]

Considering even we have seen good shots of the looters and vandals, there's no doubt the officials have plenty more, not to mention those arrested. They are going to pay.

[Ryllharu]

The solution to everything is always to spend lots more of money into army, military, defense and some new and innovative forms of reducing human beings to pulp. Lets spend hundreds of millions in crowd control/ repression methods when their savage riots cost a few millinions.

The alternatives are shooting machine guns at them from tanks. See Syria. Innovations in non-lethal weaponry (especially ones that are not gas weapons) is always going to be an improvement. No injuries and no deaths from this kind of chaos is the ideal to strive for.

Considering even we have seen good shots of the looters and vandals, there's no doubt the officials have plenty more, not to mention those arrested. They are going to pay.

Considering how fast the media has been able to find the identity of the "kissing" couple, I would not be surprised if a number of the looters and vandals are already in custody.

[Animeniax]

Considering how fast the media has been able to find the identity of the "kissing" couple, I would not be surprised if a number of the looters and vandals are already in custody.

Dammit I knew it, I shouldn't have googled it. Consider the magic ruined, she's not particularly hot and explaining the moment also kills the beauty of it.

[UChessmaster]

I want to know who they are but can`t find it. :/

[Sapphire]

Google 'kissing vancouver'.

Apparently not that many people in Vancouver kiss.

[UChessmaster]

Oh, got it, to be honest that guy is very... meh, magic is ruined over here too

[Splash!]

... or ban such a dangeorus sport that can make people go crazy.

They take advantage of those fellings fans have, to sell them merchandise, to sell em very expensive tickets or season passes, they promote rivalry and even "conflict" with advertising campaigns as if matches were wars. And when they go rampage its all their fault.

This, I completely disagree with. How is it hockey's fault if the Vancouver fans can't keep their emotions in check? Also, as far as official NHL media coverage and advertising goes before and after the game, they don't try to portray it as a war. Hockey does have a barbarian nature to it (which I personally think should be toned down as the game has much to offer even without all that), but a clear distinction is made between behaviour on and off the rink. Players are expected to be extremely mannered, well-spoken, professional and humble as soon as they step off the ice. It is ONLY when they are on the ice that they are allowed to let loose.

I dont know what the atmosphere is like in other sports, but when an incident like this happens in hockey, I lay the blame squarely on the fans involved. The team, the NHL, or the media has nothing to do with it.

[Assertn]

Google 'kissing vancouver'.

Apparently not that many people in Vancouver kiss.

Lol exploitable

[Marik]

[XanBcoo]

I feel sorry for both parties. That couple could very well have been doing nothing wrong, but the police were dealing with people who were violently rioting, so it was just an unfortunate consequence of being stuck in all that madness.

Plus now they're semi-famous so I guess it worked out.

[IFHTT]

Be sure to use your wrist strap when playing your Wii in the Bronx. Also, be sure to eat when your Mom's boyfriend tells you to... If you like living, that is.

Mother pummels her 5 year old son to death for breaking her TV with a Wiimote.

[Buffalobiian]

Prosecutors charged Crawford with murder and manslaughter.

I didn't know they could do did that. So what, it's common practice for police to charge manslaughter and murder at the same time to see what works out?

[Sapphire]

WTF did she smack him with?@@??@?@?@?@ Must have been a fucking pole. Ugh, another reason not to ever raise your fist/pole/hand to a tiny child.

[Buffalobiian]

Bare hands, if I understood the article right.

[Sapphire]

She's lying.

[Buffalobiian]

You know how hard you must hit a kid before they get internal bleeding?

I don't :S. (though "smack" and "punch" are two different things. Couldn't the autopsy give a a more definitive clue?)

[shinta|hikari]

I didn't know they could do did that. So what, it's common practice for police to charge manslaughter and murder at the same time to see what works out?

Yes, especially when murder might not stick.

[Buffalobiian]

It makes sense for them to charge manslaughter when murder fails (especially if the reason was due to lack of intent for killing), but having them both charged at the same time just has a funny feel to it since they're mutually exclusive. (You can't be guilty of manslaughter AND murder for the same death). It's like saying they don't know which one it is, so they'll just put them noth through and test their luck.

While I see what they're trying to do makes sense, it comes off to me as a lack of investigation, or incompetence at investigating whether she had a motive for murder.