your win is my loss [UPDATED]
thanks for the horde of rowdy fans now storming my street. thanks for the drivers who creep down the street while laying on their horn to show support. thanks for the pedestrians screaming chants at the top of their beer-drenched lungs. thanks for the random pops of fireworks that punctuate the occasional silences between the previous two. and most certainly thanks for what i expect will be a sleepless night FULL of this shit.
fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you.
hating all you wanna be jocks and your local sports team nonsense now more than ever (never would've thought that possible back in high school),
( HOLY FUCKING SHIT! where is the hole i so desperately want to crawl into? )
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from here, post is updated to promote an excerpt of the comments to the main page.
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- VictoryGrey said...
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Blogavoidant,
perhaps you are right. i hope so.
when viewed in the context of the other reported damage, it seems likely to me the bank just happened to be on a street that was thoroughly trashed. i haven't seen a report of which bank it was. it's my guess it was the wachovia on broad st since the fye and robbinson luggage stores right there also got smashed up.
"Windows were smashed at a bank and luggage store in the downtown shopping district. At least two cars were overturned, the windows of a TV van were smashed, dozens of huge streetside planters were flipped over and some bus shelters were damaged or destroyed."
each article tells a slightly different story of the damage. rioters also tried to turn over a police bus when the police finally got there to try and break them up. i've heard reports of other damage in town and in the suburbs from co-workers today. even out in west chester, some cars were damaged.
btw, the photo on the above article is very telling. i wish i'd had the mental fortitude to go out last night with camera in hand and shoot the scene. i probably could've gotten some great shots and sold some to the papers. - Intransitivus said...
That people can be raging over fucking sports but not human rights, government (hah), corporate abuse of society and individuals, homelessness, disability, racism, descrimination, war and every fucking other IMPORTANT topics makes me want to [CENSORED]!!!
Labels: anti-social, fear, sensory, sleep disordered
posted by VictoryGrey at
2:33 AM
Looks like Philadelphia has a long history of rioting... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Nativist_Riots
Blogavoidant,
thank you for sharing that link.
although the historical rioters were incited to riot over petty differences, it was at least political in nature and that is understandable to me. this sports thing. . . why does a sports victory incite a crowd to set fires, smash banks and destroy storefronts, and not anger about the war, the economy, and all the injustices our government commits against its own and against citizens of the world?
11:19 AM, October 30, 2008
Hmm... smashed banks? Maybe that was a more political riot than we're giving credit for.