Your San Francisco Riot Roundup
Consider this a public service, if you will.
The same city that had at least two writers (here and here) unnecessarily call out Phillies fans for isolated incidents that happened (at a minimum) several months ago, saw riots after their World Series win last night.
Of course, one of those publications, the Mercury News, said fans "wept, hugged and danced in the streets."
You call this weeping, hugging and dancing?
Video, and a lot more, after the jump.
Congrats to the Giants on the win. They deserved it- for real. But their fans? Well, that's a different story.
You see, the biggest problem with idiot fans is that they are not really fans at all. Usually the same people who cause trouble are the same ones who didn't watch a given team until they got good. Every fan base has their share of bandwagon fans. And while we have a fair number here, for the most part, Phillies fans are loyal and of the lifelong variety. Who remembers watching Jeff Juden? I do, I do!
In San Francisco, however, their bandwagon overloaded right around October 7th. And it crashed last night.
The idiots were out in full force, using the hashtag #sfriot on Twitter to communicate (for those who don't use Twitter, a hashtag allows you to follow all messages for that topic).
Mashable tracked the highlights:
So far, we’ve heard unbelievable but nonetheless true stories: There aren’t (yet) enough police to control the crowds, and available officers are improvising as best they can while calling other agencies in for support.
Still, crowds are surrounding and attacking police (at least one one officer may be down), store windows are being broken, citizens are found unconscious, cars and at least one bus have been set on fire. From the scanner alone, we are being shown a picture of utter mayhem.
UPDATE: A squad car containing assault rifles was just broken into, according to the police scanner.
UPDATE 2: Six shots were just fired in the Bayview at Third and Hollister. Simultaneously, officers from San Mateo are being sent back home and the scanner activity is becoming less frenetic; it seems San Francisco police are beginning to get things more under control at around one in the morning.
Here's a mob attacking a car.
And here's why- the car drove into them:
Yeah, these guys look like baseball fans:
