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randomnessWow, this is a lot of people. The motorcycle cops are now coming down Brookline Ave. The cops are reacting very quickly.
Along Landsdowne St. a car trying to make its way through had its windows smashed and people tried to turn it over. Now there are some mounted cops making their way through.
There's a report that some buttheads broke into Fenway, but no details. We can see a lot of people who have climbed up onto the beams on the outside of Fenway, but the park itself is dark.
There's also a report that tear gas was fired to try and disperse the crowd but that doesn't seem to have had much effect. More or less it looks like the cops are going to try and move along the streets and clear people out of the area. They have one of those big white school buses, possibly so they have somewhere to put the people they arrest.
Fortunately it looks like the police planned ahead so the situation isn't too hairy; most people look like they're just having fun celebrating but there were a few jerks whose idea of celebration is to break things.
But wow, it's a lot of people. Particularly considering there wasn't even a game here tonight.
Along Landsdowne St. a car trying to make its way through had its windows smashed and people tried to turn it over. Now there are some mounted cops making their way through.
There's a report that some buttheads broke into Fenway, but no details. We can see a lot of people who have climbed up onto the beams on the outside of Fenway, but the park itself is dark.
There's also a report that tear gas was fired to try and disperse the crowd but that doesn't seem to have had much effect. More or less it looks like the cops are going to try and move along the streets and clear people out of the area. They have one of those big white school buses, possibly so they have somewhere to put the people they arrest.
Fortunately it looks like the police planned ahead so the situation isn't too hairy; most people look like they're just having fun celebrating but there were a few jerks whose idea of celebration is to break things.
But wow, it's a lot of people. Particularly considering there wasn't even a game here tonight.
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Date: 2004-10-20 10:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-21 07:05 am (UTC)Apparently 16 people ended up in the hospital, some because they fell off the Green Monster in trying to climb it.
I was at Game 6 of the 1996 World Series in the Bronx, when the Yankees beat the Braves for the first time. Other than some people trying to rip out bleacher seats to keep as a souvenir (didn't happen), no one seemed destructive. In fact, everyone high-fived. And I mean EVERYONE. I think that I high-fived about 500 people that night. That was fun.
I guess I just don't understand being so happy that you need to set fire to something.
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Date: 2004-10-21 07:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-21 07:12 am (UTC)Too bad they were too drunk to remember that Boston took all the cameras that were around the FleetCenter for DNC security and put them around Fenway for security.
There will be arrests for WEEKS. Whoever is head of security at BU and Northeastern are probably in some serious trouble today.
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Date: 2004-10-21 07:39 am (UTC)And yes, this is hardly comforting for the idiots who thought street parking anywhere near Kenmore Square was a good gamble, or decided to get drunk and scale Mt. Fenway. Vandalism is one thing, being a total dumbass is another. Really, in some ways my theory here is like the theory that society is better off when people smoke themselves to death--not morally right, just an observation. In closing, don't riot and commit acts of vandalism. After all, I had a chance to cut A-Rod off at the knees with a car back in July and I restrained my destructive impulses--why can't you, Red Sox Nation?
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Date: 2004-10-21 07:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-21 08:23 am (UTC)"But wow, it's a lot of people. Particularly considering there wasn't even a game here tonight"
I thought that was the strangest part. I understand that it's the teams home, but I still the think the mob mentality of "must be near fenway" is a little weird. Unless they're putting the extremely addictive, increase-potency-with-winning, obsess-over-baseball drugs in the air near fenway, so that people just can't stay away.
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Date: 2004-10-21 08:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-21 09:49 am (UTC)Thanks for clearing that up.
so my question...
Date: 2004-10-21 09:13 am (UTC)OH, and I obviously find this whole baseball silliness fascinating, because I was cleaning my house while the game was on. But then I'm a weirdo. People keep giving me this weird look whenever someone asks me about 'the game' and I say, what game? hehe...
Re: so my question...
Date: 2004-10-21 09:52 am (UTC)Oh, I wasn't. The riot was being televised live.
I say, what game?
Yeah, it's like my friend Todd once said, when the Super Bowl came up: "That's football, right? The one with the round ball?"