BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Apr 08 - 10:54 AM

Choking on media (and Mudcat) politically divisive coverage.... Once again, hockey comes to the rescue:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/penguins/s_565052.html?source=rss&feed=8

He didn't do it on the ice, so what's the big deal! :~) Now THAT would be a tradition!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: Beer
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 09:27 PM

I received an e-mail today that had a video attachment. Wish I could put it up. The title is "Hockey Mom" oh well.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: Peace
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 08:51 PM

The brunette is my youngest sister. Good form, but her back fist needs work as does her close-in work with the elbows.

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: john f weldon
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 08:44 PM

If you watch the morning news on TV here, you can see last night's bar fights, which happen pretty often & spill out into the street. An odd development is the number of young females who are involved. And not scratching and pulling hair, either; these babes are pitching haymakers!

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: Peace
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 08:41 PM

Yeah. That, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: meself
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 06:42 PM

And Edmonton has gotten a bit rambunctious from time to time in the last few years too ...

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: Peace
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 06:31 PM

Happened in both Vancouver and Toronto, Jack. However, it's happened frequently in Mtl.

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 05:28 PM

Montreal is the only place I know of where this happens. I think it may stem from grandfathers remembering the Rocket Richard riots fondly to the boys on their knees.

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: Peace
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 05:07 PM

Instant assholes, Ebbie. Just add booze.

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 05:05 PM

And these are happy people?

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: bobad
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 02:51 PM

I had just moved downtown that August and the strike occurred on the 8th. of October. From CBC archives:

Montreal's 'night of terror'

Broadcast Date: Oct. 8, 1969
Montreal is in a state of shock. A police officer is dead and 108 people have been arrested following 16 hours of chaos during which police and firefighters refused to work. At first, the strike's impact was limited to more bank robberies than normal. But as night fell, a taxi drivers' union seized upon the police absence to violently protest a competitor's exclusive right to airport pickups. The result, according to this CBC Television special, was a "night of terror."

Shattered shop windows and a trail of broken glass are evidence of looting that erupted in the downtown core. With no one to stop them, students and separatists joined the rampage. Shop owners, some of them armed, struggled to fend off looters. Restaurants and hotels were also targeted. A corporal with the Quebec provincial police was shot and killed at the garage of the Murray Hill limousine company as taxi drivers tried to burn it down.

As police returned to duty in the wee hours, the arrests began. By morning, the city's public buildings were under guard by the army, which was summoned by Premier Jean-Jacques Bertrand. At least 20 people have been injured, and damage from the riot has been estimated at $2 million ($10.7 million in 2005 dollars).

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: bankley
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 02:15 PM

yeah , sure was....nutso shit..... there was a time not long ago when folks would steal a back-hoe from a construction site in the wee hours of the morning then drive it right thru the entrance of the bank... chain up to the ATM ripping it from the wall and off they rode... happened quite a lot...the Denver Boot didn't last too long either. Too many ended up in pieces on the curb... lots of zany stories esp. around the docks and harbour.... would make an interesting book... i think the 'stop-watch gang' were written about... FBI were after them for years..

it's a helluva lively town, hockey and all................. et les belles femmes

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: john f weldon
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 02:12 PM

Ah yes, the police strike. There I was hiding in my bed (corner of de Maisoneuve & Bleury), listening to breaking glass, shrieking, running feet. The next morning, I looked out and saw my city in ruins.

The last time the Habs won the cup, there was another riot. But I didn't think they'd riot just for one series.

I used to like hockey, but it's just no fun any more, hoping your team loses!

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: pdq
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 02:01 PM

"Montreal is a great place to be from"

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: Peace
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 01:47 PM

Bobad and Ron: Were you guys around when there was the police strike? Idiots announced they were going out at midnight. By noon there had been 17 armed robberies--over a dozen were banks. Geeze, I love Montreal.

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: pdq
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 01:25 PM

"I was watching a fight one night when a hockey game broke out"

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: bobad
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 01:21 PM

Some of the vandals and looters were identified by being caught on film by people with cell phones. Apparently there was footage on You Tube the same evening. One good application of modern technology, I suppose, not too good for those predisposed to anti-social behaviour though.

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: bankley
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 01:02 PM

actually, I correct myself... there was another major riot in Montreal between the 1837 rebellion and the Rocket Richard event...

the burning of the parliament buildings in 1849.. which were eventually re-built in Ottawa.... a few years before the first puck was dropped anywhere

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: Peace
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 11:41 AM

Police car afterwards. Expensive bit of 'fun', no?

I hope the assholes who did that are found, arrested, charged and made to pay for the damage.

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: gnu
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 11:37 AM

Apalling.

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: bankley
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 09:38 AM

it ain't the first time....there's been many..
the 1st major 'emeute' was in the early 50's after Rocket Richard had been banned from the play-offs for decking a ref in Detroit. It was also the 1st 'political' uprising since the 1837 rebellion.

Vive la difference.. but too bad for the shopkeepers and car owners.... the cops ought to know by now....

I remember playing in old Montreal at Le Hotel Nelson on St.Jean Baptiste day in '74. The band was Toubabou. The hotel held about 250 people jammed in. It was advertised on the radio. 50,000 revellers showed up in Place Jacques Cartier expecting a free, outdoor show..
49,750 of them couldn't get in the hotel... so they made their own show.... fires and all.. the riot police (real thugs back then) joined the party, truncheons, tear gas and all...

When we finally left the hotel around 4 am... it was a wasteland. Came close to getting my head cracked by a huge City Goon, luckily I was smart enough to fall in behind a group of older, naive tourists exiting a restaurant in the area... phew.... Quebec sait l'faire

After that event, major parties were planned and held outdoors on June 24th. The following year on Mount Royal...400,000 showed up.. I avoided that one...took a long time to clean up after that spectacle

now the events are smaller and dispersed all over... but that rebellious revellry lies just under the surface... wait 'til the next Stanley Cup...... and I mean wait, and wait and wait....

Subject: RE: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: topical tom
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 09:28 AM

It may be a kind of tradition but certainly not a proud one.If the team ever was shown to have had a part in it, I would no longer be a fan.

Subject: BS: Montreal Hockey Riot Proud Tradition
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 23 Apr 08 - 11:48 PM

Imagine if they had lost?