Boston Tragedy
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- RedFoxxworth
I live in Boston, and a girl from my school died last night after getting shot in the face with a rubber bullet from some trigger happy cop. Everyone was rioting cause the Red Sox won (burning cars with NY plates, etc, fucking idiots), the cops had riot gear, teargas, and rubber bullets. Fuck the Sox cause if they win the series who knows how many innocent people will die at the hands of some drunken idiot Bostonian or a fucking pig who gets too excited he has a "non-lethal" weapon to shoot at a crowd. Boston obviously can't handle the Sox winning. Peace to the girl and her family... it's a real tragedy when someone dies for no reason.
- swollenelbow0
it's a game.
it's like a girl losing their eye with a gun over monopoly...
- soynutz70
I knew something stupid like that would happen. Too many stupid college kids!
- Donvitoviti0
sucks but dont hang around a riot.. that is just stupid
- abizzyman0
Red... that sucks...
... but leave the Redsox out of it... it's stupid cops and stupid people. Don't go blaming sports or anything else because people acted out of control.
I feel for you and your school... but don't turn this into some bullshit against sports or anything of the sort.
It's a tragedy... there's nothing you can do about it now but console her family and friends.
- rabattski0
well yeah and no. i mean, look at hooligans. it sure has nothing to do with the sport itself but it's excistence is due to the sport. if there wouldn't be soccer, there wouldn't be hooligans. at least a team should try to talk to it's own hooly fans and refuse to play or something instead of doing nothing.
- toe-knee0
"if there wouldn't be soccer, there wouldn't be hooligans."
dont worry, they'd find something else to riot over. And most football clubs in the UK have banned hooligans for life, CCTV in all stadiums, extra security. It looks like the US should call as the UK police for some tips in crowd control. Mounted police always give me the shits, nothing more scary than seeing a horse gallopin towards you
- abizzyman0
This happens every year - around the world.
You can't control people - no matter what you try... This tragedy has nothing to do with the team or the sport... it has everything to do with foolish actions of rioting uncrontrolable people and the trigger happy cops.
NY has had to deal w/this... L.A. and especially Chicago in past years.
Just like football in Europe... they have to deal with out-of-control people also.
The only way you won't ever have this situation is to stop sports all-together, and that's just stupid.
The teams shouldn't have to take any pre-responsibility by asking their fans to 'be nice'.
People should be held accountable for their own actions... and should know better.
There is no responsibility on the Redsox or any other team for that matter when it comes to fan riots. This responsibility belongs to those individuals who act like idiots.
- jox0
wise words, abizzy.
- toe-knee0
I dunno, its a tuff call. If the red sox were touring to a differnt city and started rioting there, then I guess you could call the club to answer for it as travelling fans are their responibilty, but in this case it was probably people who werent even at the game and just getting the old simpsons mob mentality
- function820
i agree, but unfortunatly people dont want to be held accountable for their actions. rioters will blame 'mob mentality' and cops wont be held accountable because their using 'non-lethal force' and responding in accordance to their training, and the legal system fails the innocent victim
- kingjulien0
First off, I think the accidental death of the young lady in Boston is a terrible tragedy. It does happen in other cities, with far more casualies, but even one death is enough to put sports in its proper perspctive. However the Red Sox had nothing to do with anything. They merely provided millions with compelling entertainment and positive memories, and taught us a thing or two about resilience and determination. When drunk idiots get unruly in large numbers, bad things happen. It sucks all around.
As a sidenote, it always amuses me when young white kids start tossing around the term "pig" rather haphazardly. This isn't 1969 in Oakland, and the Panthers never were heroes. I know the Boston Police issued a statement accepting blame, and I know there are crooked cops out there, ones who are in it just for the power trip. And yet, despite the cases we here about in the media, and the ones we don't, I appreciate what the police do for society, by and large, regardless of what NWA says. The police have difficult jobs, and do things I never would want to have to. I know if somebody breaks into my house and I call 911, the cops will be here instantly. I know that when i've needed any kind of assistance, generally the police have been quite helpful. Most of them I've met have been pretty cool. The times I've been mad at the police have also been the moments-ironically-where I was most guilty of something, and just got caught red handed and needed someone to be pissed at. It's taken getting older, and mellowing out, to really see how silly my 20 year old f*** the pigs mentality really was.
No offense to anybody, i just think it's far too convenient to place the blame on one easy target, and forget all the things these people do for us.
As Chris Rock says, if you see a police light flashing in your rearview mirror, pull over. If you lead them on a crazy chase, you probably deserve an ass kicking. When asked questions, speak respectfully. If you have a bag of weed in your pocket, don't be antagonistic. It's not really brain surgery.
- toe-knee0
"Snelgrove, who lived in nearby Brookline, was a talented young student who dreamed of being an "Entertainment Tonight"-type reporter and was working to lose her Boston accent."
wtf? looks like there is blatant rivalry between NY and Bawstin
- abizzyman0
nicely put, king...
I especially agree w/you on the part of the police and the disrepect that so many of them get when all they're trying to do is hold up the laws that protect us.
And yes... one death is far to big a price to pay to really put something into it's proper perspective... no matter if it's entertainment, politics or what have you.
Death is always tragic.
- abizzyman0
toe... you couldn't be more right... well in regards to baseball at least. :)
- GreedoLives0
i can't really blame the cops for trying to restore some order in kenmore. it's sad that a girl had to die, but had a bunch of knuckleheads not decided to smash up a mcdonalds and roll an SUV, none of this would've happened.
It's alwasy the out-of-state college students that suddenly turn into the most hardcore fans when something good happens and start tearing up the city they didn't grow up in. I bet there wasn't a single 50-year old Dorchester car mechanic out there who's followed the sox for four decades.
- ********0
terrible
- k0na_an0k0
from what i understood she was shot with a cannister of pepper spray from a riot cop.
either way it's horrible and it scares me on a number of levels.
what. she shouldn't have been out partying?!? so now we can't party? so now we have curfew? now they don't want to sell beer in bars on game nights? wtf is this all coming too? was the COP drunk cause what the hell does beer have to do with a cop shootinga woman in the face with a pepper spray canister?
it's government thugs, and these bad cops who have a little power under their belt who push the little people around and abuse their authority and it pisses me off.
this is horrible and i would have that cops badge hanging on my wall and the departments balls in a sling. unreal.
- ********0
Shit happens. Sport is violence
- ********0
nope Kuz.
